The Gold Standard for Communicating Behaviours

From Red10 Professor Neil Rackham set the gold standard for Communicating Behaviours when he created his Behavioural Analysis Framework. What is Behavioural Analysis? Behavioural Analysis can be traced back to researchers in the 1950s who: Devised a list of verbal behavioursCounted the number of times each behaviour was used during an observed period Rackham and his colleagues picked this …

Wisdom From the Past

Aligning motivation to work

Through my engagement with the Learning Development Accelerator and getting to know Matt Richter, I’ve become acquainted with Deci & Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory (SDT). It’s one of those frameworks that provides useful insight into how people work, and so how orgs should align. While there are formal implications, I reckon it has broader applicability to …

TedTalk: New insights on poverty | Hans Rosling

http://www.ted.com Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. https://youtu.be/YpKbO6O3O3M He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the …

Personality changes for the better with age

July/August 2003, Vol 34, No. 7 While many may suspect that people's personalities are fixed in childhood, new research suggests that most people's personalities evolve throughout their lives. Personality changes in men and women older than 30 were demonstrated in a study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and published recently in the Journal of …

Video: Carl Binder on the Legacy of B.F. Skinner

B.F Skinner was a prominent American psychologist with a fascinating list of achievements based on his behavioral theories of operant conditioning, rate of response for learning in organisms. Among his many achievements, he also led the invention of eLearning in a way with his learning machines for corrective and formative feedback. In this episode, we …

A Couple of Items from the late Roger Chevalier

The Evolution of a Performance Analysis Job Aid See that article - here. Video from 2012 This video is 84:02 minutes in length. https://youtu.be/hIiDxT476gM See more from Roger - here. RIP Roger. ###