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… (most often in this book, human foibles) in its proper place in the animal kingdom as well as provide a clever, entertaining read. On the other, one must be circumspect in accepting the validity of rather casually drawn parallels. The book is an interesting mix of the results of scientifically established naturalistic observations of animals and entertaining anecdotes deriving from the author’s observations about and encounters with people with tons of money. The point of … extrapolations between species based on similarity of appearance of behavior between the two in the way I have been trained—with healthy skepticism. Sometimes the comparison can be right-on, but at other times the behavior may appear to be …
… when people don’t. A more fundamental behavioral process is difficult to imagine. Skilled shapers - people like animal trainers in amusement parks, most outstanding teachers, and many outstanding managers – know their goal in terms of the target … for a student shaper/teacher of this response to be moving along well and then just get stuck at some point. It could be said that the pigeon has reached a plateau, but the problem isn’t the pigeon, it is the fact that the pigeon’s environment is … final target, while withholding rewards when the behavior is not advancing. Shaping is part science and part art. Once again in the case of key pecking, it is the case that sometimes the pigeons peck, but the peck is not on the key itself, maybe …
… world. By examining the circumstances under which the behavior occurred, we come closer to understanding how and explaining why the behavior occurred, as opposed to the vacuous non-explanation of using focus to account for, rather than … often are labeled as lacking in attention or focus, lazy, careless, bumbling, hostile, or sulky and the like. These traits are too often seen as unchanging features of the person, much as the stars are fixed in the heavens above, making it even more difficult for the person to change. It is not a far leap to these traits being seen as the cause of whatever work problems there are. The alternative is to take a person’s behavior as behavior …
… When Training to Competency Does Not Equal Competent Trainees If you were to look at how your organization provides training, at what point are participants considered “competent” in the material? Or, better yet, do you even have a means for …
… that GE managers spend a lot of time with the employees being reviewed. What the article did not give was many of the details about the system itself and maybe that is on purpose, since they want to keep the secret. To paraphrase Alabama’s … Bryant, when asked by Ga. Tech Coach Bobby Dodd why he didn’t tell coaches at football clinics what he really d id, Bear said, “Why would I tell that to the competition?” However, the secret as it was stated in the article “…lies in the intensity … not by much. With apologies to Mr. Krishnamoorthy, I understand that in an article of this length, it is difficult to detail all parts of this process and I may have come to some wrong conclusions about the process. As they say, I only know …
… Key to Behavior: Measurement Counts! In a recent piece, I introduced readers to the pigeon as the subject extraordinaire for laboratory research on basic learning processes. Pigeons are used because of their long lives and their … or to peck slowly, to peck at an evenly spaced tempo or vary the tempo over time, to respond quickly to a stimulus or to wait for some time after a stimulus is presented to make a response. In a nutshell, the pecking of the pigeon can be … The response key allows very precise measurement of the response, far more precise than could be obtained by merely watching the pigeon and counting its pecks. This precision allows in turn very precise control over the …
… Aubrey Daniels, Ph.D ., who coined the term “performance management” and has written six management best-sellers, and Jon Bailey, Ph.D., director of the Applied Behavior Analysis master’s program in psychology at Florida State University and … founder of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis. “ Performance Management is the only book of its kind that explains the science of behavior and provides proven research and examples for applying its principles to bring about workplace outcomes that organizations are challenged with achieving,” Daniels said. “Basically, performance management is a way of getting people to do what you want them to do and to like doing it – …
… not only inspire us but also give us ideas on how to optimize our own skill sets. Similarly, as leaders, there is a lot to gain from learning about how coaches in various arenas build fluency with their learners. To that point, the martial arts are one such area that exemplify deep pools of proficiency attainment that we can learn a great deal from. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is the hybrid of various fighting disciplines ranging from Muay Thai and Karate to Greco Roman Wrestling, Judo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. There is no denying that MMA can be viewed as a brutal …
… began discussing problems they had observed in the ways in which many of the therapists in autism treatment centers failed to record data correctly even when the system for recording is straightforward and requires little effort on the part of the therapist. They were particularly dismayed by the fact that the children’s very futures were on the line when therapists failed to implement treatment programs and record data as required by both the protocols and by oversight agencies. Indeed, …