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Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits?
Editor’s note: We need cues and rewards to break habits. We also need new habits to replace old ones. Some useful insights here on behaviour change.
Browsing: behaviour change
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When a Nudge Feels Like a Shove
Editor’s note: L&D might have some lessons to learn here. In the education sector, technology that nudges students to engage in learning has the opposite effect. Employers need to understand how best to deploy such approaches to avoid unintended consequences.
Talks to form better habits
Editor’s note: Behaviour change is cemented when we adopt new habits. These talks provide some great tips on how to create new tips.
Six Questions You Need To Ask Yourself Everyday – Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
Editor’s note: This talk from Marshall Goldsmith is pretty much the one he delivered to the Learning Technologies Conference 2016. This is a great talk on how to change behaviours.
How to break habits
Editor’s note: If 40% of our time is spent on habits we have a huge opportunity to change the way we do things for the better. But how? Charles Duhigg, author of the Power of Habit, explains how.
Can technology really change your habits?
Editor’s note: Interesting read which suggests that technology can only go so far in helping us to change our habits.
Change or die
Editor’s note: A must-read article on behaviour change. Fascinating insights into what makes people change and how that can be used in organisations. Thanks to Cedric Borzee for sharing.
Workplace performance: Learning is behaviour change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?
Editor’s note: A great article by Charles Jennings on the psychological and emotional factors at play in behaviour change.
Three keys to keeping customers engaged
Editor’s note: This short video shows Stanford academic BJ Fogg talking through steps to behaviour change.
71 useful articles on online behavior change you can choose not to read
Editor’s note: A great resource here on behaviour change, which is what a lot of what learning and development teams are judged on.
The science behind Lift
Editor’s note: A look at the work of behaviour design guru BJ Fogg and how you can design for behaviour change.
Why behavior change apps fail to change behaviour
Editor’s note: useful insights for L&D here. A look at fitness apps and the difference between users wanting to do something and having to do something.
Can this app convince you to stop smoking (and make better decisions)?
Editor’s note: I’m a big fan of the behaviour changing potential of technology – this app, for example. If a goal of learning interventions is behaviour change, then there will be some learning from these apps . . .
Remarkable results
Editor’s note: Behaviour change app Do Something Different has shared some findings from how its users have used the app . . . interesting reading.
Exploring problem-framing through behavioural heuristics
Editor’s note: Dan Lockton’s in-depth look at designing for behaviour change. This is about designing systems for behaviour change and there is a lot in here for L&D to learn from if you consider behaviour change to be the end-goal of learning design.