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Intervention co-design

Original workshop design for pilot use. This format has not been validated for effectiveness.

Summary and decision

Build interventions that address the diagnosed barriers and fit the workplace concept.

Decision: Select a feasible intervention portfolio and assign pilot owners.

Preparation

  • Bring prioritised barriers and future-work criteria.
  • State available budget, time and decision rights.

Audience

8-16 people: affected employees, HR, FM, IT, designers, managers and budget owner.

Agenda

Agenda in minutes
#BlockMinutes
1Opening10
2Evidence15
3Exercise A30
4Break10
5Exercise B35
6Decisions20
Total120

Exercises A and B

Exercise A: Intervention logic

  1. For each barrier, identify the condition that must change.
  2. Generate options across space, process, policy, tools, learning and communication.
  3. Write a testable link between intervention, condition, practice and outcome.

Exercise B: Portfolio selection

  1. Compare options for effectiveness plausibility, feasibility, burden and inclusion.
  2. Identify core requirements and locally adaptable elements.
  3. Assign owners, resources and a decision to pilot, revise or drop.

Worksheets

Worksheet A

Barrier and evidence
Intervention and mechanism
Expected practice and outcome
Test and alternative explanation

Worksheet B

Option and expected benefit
Cost, effort and inclusion
Core and adaptable elements
Owner and pilot decision

Illustrative example

Illustrative, not a real case

  • Illustrative: a booking problem combines unclear rules and recurring empty reservations.
  • The portfolio tests clearer permissions, release rules and practical instruction.
  • The pilot checks realised use and employee effort.

Completion criteria

  • Every intervention addresses a named barrier.
  • Delivery capacity and cost have owners.
  • Each material assumption has a pilot or evidence plan.

Follow-up

  • Take selected interventions to W09.
  • Update workplace requirements when a barrier needs design change.

Points of attention

  • A popularity vote cannot override access or operational requirements.
  • Avoid choosing communication for every barrier.

Workplace phase and change activities

Workplace: Develop (phase in the Workplace method)

Change Management

  • Design

    Why this workshop helps: Builds an intervention portfolio that addresses diagnosed barriers, with pilot owners.

    Adapting outside a workplace setting: Drop the fit with a workplace concept; check fit with the process, system or policy instead.

These links and notes are editorial guidance of the Codex, not a new or validated template. The workshop text and files on this page are unchanged.

Planned sessions

No sessions are planned.

Sources and downloads

Sources

S01Framework developmentNot effectiveness evidence

Michie, van Stralen & West (2011). The behaviour change wheel

Why here: Informs the link between a diagnosed barrier, the condition that must change and the expected practice. The intervention logic is our own synthesis; this source does not validate the workshop.

Finding:
COM-B organises behaviour diagnosis around capability, opportunity and motivation.
Limitation for workplace:
A framework for analysis does not establish which workplace intervention will succeed. Our worksheets are original adaptations.
Reviewed 2026-10-02
S05Research guidanceNot effectiveness evidence

Skivington et al. (2021). A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions

Why here: Informs the attention to feasibility, core and adaptable elements and testing assumptions before scaling. It does not validate this workshop.

Finding:
Context, programme theory, stakeholder involvement, uncertainty and iterative refinement belong throughout intervention development.
Limitation for workplace:
Guidance from health research informs our design. It does not validate this workplace workshop sequence.
Reviewed 2026-10-02

Downloads

Last reviewed: 2026-10-02