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Week 13
1. Focus and Measure - Reflect on this concept and think about what you are really wanting to change and how would you measure that change and show success? Our group as influencers is to help individuals discover or maintain there sense of purpose during/after cardiac rehabilitation. The way we plan to measure sense of purpose is through implementing health coaching into cardiac rehabilitation. We will accomplish by doing surveys, motivational interviewing, and focusing on the overall needs of the individual.

2. Find Vital Behaviors - Reflect and select the one or two vital behaviors that are really driving the problem you are addressing. What are the MOST IMPORTNT one(s) to address?
Nothing is being done to help individuals maintain the progress they have made at cardiac rehabilitation. The most important behavior that we are driving to address is the sense of purpose of the individual.

3. Engage in all Six Sources of influence - Reflect on the six sources of influence and think about your strategy and methods. How would you plan to diffuse these into your project so you actually make a difference?
Personal Motivation: We find personal motivation through discovering what the values of the individual patient is. This can be done through the surveys and motivational interviewing.
Personal Ability: Finding the individuals personal ability can be done through motivation interviewing part. We will get to know why this patient is one of the few who actually decided to come to rehab and how they believe that they can sustain cardiac rehab.
Social Motivation: Learning how to communicate with other patients who are going through something similar is a key determent when finding a sense of purpose.
Social Ability: What path do the patients want to take, where will the support come from to continue rehab, and to where to seek support.
Structural Motivation: Surrounding yourself with the appropriate environment is essential in encouraging the individual to sustain their sense of purpose.
Structural Ability:

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Week 12
1. How would you use this information to create a motivating way to get people to adopt the behavior you are addressing in your genius hour project?
Incentives in the Cardiac Rehabilitation setting is a very complex idea. Only about 30% of those who qualify for Cardiac Rehabilitation actually make it through all 36 sessions. For those 30% who do attend, they are receiving the incentive of bettering their health so they can prevent further complications. For our genius hour proposal I do believe that incentives would be essential. If our main goal is for individuals to sustain Cardiac Rehabilitation we believe that using incentives will boost their sense of purpose even more to better their well-being. For example, we could log every session individuals meet with us and once they receive a certain amount of meetings they receive a reward. Another example could be that every time a individual meets their goal, whether it's physically or nutritionally based they receive some type of discount on insurance.

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Week 11
1. How does your Genius Hour project use or build social capital? use specific ideas from the Influencer book to support your reflection.
We build social capital in our Genius Hour by first providing assistance. Cardiac Rehabilitation is a "best practice" so designing something that helps patients after Cardiac Rehabilitation requires ample amounts of providing assistance. The second idea we can use to build social capital is to use interdependence. Success often depends on experts who are at least as specialized as their predecessors and ho rely on one another to complete their  task. The final way to build social capital is to watch out for blind spots. We as influencers should be quick to consider what help, authority, consent, or cooperation individuals may need when facing risky or daunting new behaviors.
2. Putnam Chapter 3:9 covers experiential learning and concepts involved in that model. How can you help those you want to change behaviors use the experiential learning theory and develop the growth mind set? Before we can start to change behaviors using the experiential learning theory we need to "start the movement, build the movement, and make it last. We can use the experiential learning theory by evaluating where an individual currently is within the sequence. Depending on the stage the individual is in you can find out which stage is best for them. For example, if an individual has never tried to quit smoking they should start in the "do" stage so they experience a experience. Growth mindset goes hand in hand with experiential learning theory. Individuals who develop to beliwve that their abilities can be developed by hard work (experiences) have a well based growth mindset. Learning a new behavior isn't about learning how to change the behavior its about doing the behavior.

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Week 9
1. How would you use Putnam's ideas of "Creating Meaning" for the population you are targeting in the topic for your Genius hour? As the opening states, we have to help them know their "WHY." What of the man ideas presented this week help you get buying from your group?
In the clinical setting I believe that is a little more difficult for patients to receive incentives because the only incentive they should need is "bettering their health". If patients discover their purpose and values of why they are at cardiac rehab that can work as their intrinsic motivator which will result in the creation of meaning. In reality though every individual is different and some individuals are going to need more than their own will power to keep them motivated to change. Incentives might be very crucial in having a person reach their meaning of building resiliency and how to be happy.

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Week 14
1. Choose one video, success, story, or research study and reflect on what influencer tactics were used and why these would be important as you develop into a health promotion manger in your future career.
Spectrum Health System focuses on three vital behaviors. 1 - Responsibility. Take action for your own mistakes and never be too afraid to own up to the mistake you have made. 2. - Make it safe to hold crucial conversations. Have a conversation that breaks the stigma in the room. Sensitive topics are hard to talk about but in times of need they need to be addressed. 3. - Be accountable, hold others accountable. Holistic approach, being able to hold someone accountable is very important in the clinical setting. Peoples lives are at risk! The example Spectrum Health System used was using the three sources of influence to create a system-wide compliance, reduce infections, and save lives by addressing hand hygiene. Spectrum also uses the 6 sources of the influence. Found out that the y needed to focus on all 6 the same. Not one influence was more important than the next. Spectrum is now at 98% compliance of hand hygiene.
I can use these models in my future career by addressing a behavior change that needs to be changed. By first focusing on the three vital behaviors we can really understand

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Week 7
1. Why do I/we want to be an Influencer? and Who do I/we want to influence?
Our Genius Hour team wants to focus on influencing Cardiac Rehabilitation patients after they successfully complete rehab. The reason we want to do this is because currently their is little being done for patients after the completion of Cardiac Rehabilitation. Patients often go back to old habits and we want to be the influence that makes cardiac patients sustain what they have accomplished.

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Week 5
1. Can you identify one way all the material we have covered links together in a best, promising, or emerging practice methodology?
I think that with all the material we have been learning that it is difficult to narrow best, promising, or emerging practice methodology into just one way it links, but the best answer I would say relationships. Relationships are a way of connecting with individuals on both a professional level and a personal level. This connection allows individuals to actually engage in chance and want to make the change for a better lifestyle.

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Week 6
1. How can you use the six sources of influence to create your solution to this problem? Be specific.
We can use the six sources of influence to create our solution by first completely understanding how each source of influence directly relates with sustaining cardiac rehab. For example, personal motivation should start with finding and connecting with the patients values. Personal ability deals with why the patient wants to do cardiac rehab and whether they are able to sustain the rehab. Social motivation and social ability deal with what path do the patients want to take, where the support comes from to continue rehab, and to where to seek support. Structural motivation and structural ability consists of what rewards are used to sustain vital behaviors
2. What information to date has been covered in the Putnam book that can help guide your group's investigation into your topic? The first thing that I think of that is essential to use from Putnam's book is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Human motivation I think is one of the most complicated ideas to understand because everyone is so different. The Hierarchy does a nice job of breaking it down into exactly how personal motivation should work. Another important topic that has been covered is values. No matter what in life people are going to have their own set of values and it is so crucial for a influencer to understand values. No steps in the right direction can be met before we start with personal values. The third thing I think is a important topic Da Vinci's approach to change. Building a team and finding key players is vital to creating a successful movement. Especially in our area of research creating a Da Vinci team is going to be the most important aspect.

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Week 4
1. How can you interpret the information presented so far in the Influencer book to reflect on this statement? What principles help you agree or disagree with the statement?
I can interpret this information by saying that anyone can have the idea to change the world. Influence is the physical ability to change hearts, minds, and behaviors and that can't be done unless we shape the behavior someone wants to change and start working for them instead of against them.
The three principles that help me agree with the strength of influence is the "3 Keys to influence". Key 1. Focus and Measure Key 2. Find Vital Behaviors Key 3. Engage all Six Sources of Influence
2. What is your vision of wellness using the principals promoted in Workplace Wellness that Works book? Use Putnam's to imagine what is possible to create an innovative wellness program.
My vision is working up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs one level at a time. Every person we will work with in the future is going to be very different and I think this is a great reference point to help find where an individual is in their journey.
Innovative wellness all starts with the environment your clients are going to surround themselves with everyday. This can be done with love and connection, what we do as managers, effective management of resources, creativity, and authentic self-expression.

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Week 3
1. What made you curious this week?
The first thing that made me curious was reading about how the biggest influencers and how they are not necessarily experts. This got me thinking and made me ask the question "how can these experts who have doctored degrees not be the most influential". The answer was easy. Someone can have all the necessary knowledge in the world to help someone but you need to be an agent of change. Agent of change doesn't use scary statistics but speak to the hearts of the individuals.
2. What about your thinking, learning, or work this week brought you the most satisfaction? Why?
The thing this week that brought me the most satisfaction was my learning and thinking. Simply just reading the two different chapters I gained so much knowledge and materials I had never known. Thinking about influencers and agent of change has shown me that anyone can be an expert but it takes a real individual to show empathy for you to help someone change.
3. How did you help the class learn this week? If you feel you didn't add to class or feel the need to contribute more consider what you can you next week to help other learners more?
I helped the class this week by participating in group discussions and sharing my knowledge and comments. I can help the class more by contributing more in class discussions and sharing my thoughts.

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Week 2
1. What was something new or thought about in a different way that you learned this week and why?
Something new to me that I learned in class this week was the Social Contagion Theory. This theory deals with how certain behaviors performed by one person can be replicated by others who are made aware of the behavior. I found this theory very interesting because in reality it can have such a large impact on others without them even realizing.
2. Based on best practices, how can you apply what you know in your career choice as a Health Promotion Manager?
As a Health Promotion Manager and working in a clinical setting, best practices is a part of my daily life. Patients are with me to get better and I should be using best practice every time to ensure that they can find optimal health.
3. What do you want to learn more about, and why?
I would like to learn more about why some individuals are more influenced than others and why certain things have more power of being influenced than other things. I also realize that every individual has a different best practice and its just a matter of finding what works best for them.