Managing Millennials: Can Science Help?
How do you effectively manage a generation of workers who grew up with the immediate gratification of video games, got trophies for just showing up, and were raised by helicopter parents (over-indulgent parents who “hov-er” over their child’s every need)?
Ethical Decision Making In the Workplace
As applied behavior analysts, Performance Management (PM) consultants and practitioners, we are not moral philosophers, nor are we ethicists, yet we are concerned about the ethical practice of our technology.
Being a Self-Manager
B. F. Skinner—inventor, author, and the man known as the creator of behavioral science—arranged the details of his life down to the order of the books on his desktop. Those, he arranged in such a way that he could grab the volume he needed without taking his eyes off the work at hand.
Show Me the Money (It’s Green You Know)
What can behavior analysts do to help corporate America achieve a particular social good—actions that benefit the longer-term sustainability of our planet?
Thank God It’s Monday!
People think there are some jobs that can never be made positive. In fact, a job is just a series of behaviors. By adding positive reinforcement to these behaviors, you improve performance while making people feel better about their work.
The Precision Leadership® Survey: Not just Another Yardstick for M&T Bank
Ten years ago, M&T Bank began a relationship with Aubrey Daniels International (ADI) when it set out to improve how performance was managed at the Bank.
Just Do It!
Doug Herkner began his sales career as a manufacturer’s sales rep in the fast-paced emerging days of a company that hit the ground running in 1964—Blue Ribbon Sports—today known worldwide as Nike...
Turn up to Learn: Leadership in High-hazard Industries
After almost every major industrial accident, investigators discover that an overreliance or overconfidence existed in the systems in place to prevent catastrophic events and hazardous work environments...
Are you Impatient? Knowing the symptoms and applying the solutions
For most organizations, change initiatives are easy to start yet they seem to sputter and stall. The cycle is rarely broken over years and entire careers. For some leaders, the impatience can be seen when they want it yesterday...
Communication, Engagement, and Leveraging Profit Drivers
Employee engagement is a term used to describe an employee who is fully involved in the organization and dedicated to furthering the organization’s interests—someone who is self-motivated, dedicated, and passionate about his or her job and company, someone who strives to consistently perform at levels above the norm, someone who feels connected to the company’s success and to the results he or she achieves.
