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 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 own response
5. EFFECT – This is the ultimate 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; that we are shaped, guided and contrived by other people and our
environment.