Sarah Cordiner, founder of ‘The Efficacy Effect’ believes there are 5 stages to the creation of an ‘Efficacious Effect’; aka the development of an event, experience, or circumstance that causes desired results, (or undesired ones).

1. THE EFFECTOR – this is something that causes a change in belief in one’s ability to create desired results
2. THE MIND-SET – This is the attitude, thought, and decoding process that occurs on experiencing the effector
3. THE RESPONSE – This is our reaction (behaviour, words, and emotions) to the effector
4. FEEDBACK – This is the response and reaction we get back as a result of our response
5. EFFECT – This is the ultimate state and result of the effector being experienced

1. The Dependant Perspective

There are three different perspectives on the degree to which people can control the outcomes and experiences in their lives. The first perspective is what I call the ‘dependant perspective’ which asserts that people are reactive creatures and are a result of their collective environmental, social, and circumstantial experiences. This assumes that life just ‘happens’ to us, that we have no control or influence over the direction of our lives; and that we are shaped, guided, and contrived by other people and our environment.