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Shame is a complex experience with powerful and often deeply uncomfortable emotional effects. It is a relational event, arising from a person’s concern about public judgment or disapproval of behaviors that violate that person’s, or his/her culture’s, value system. This concern of public scrutiny can, and often does, lead to socially beneficial outcomes.

Today we are joined by Dr. Eric Bieniek from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. This practitioner-focused program has both an online Master's Degree and a certificate program. If you are looking for a flexible online program, SRU may be for you! This program is focused on making each of the above options available to all of their students and understand that real-life happens and sometimes it is not fully in their students' control. SRU's goal is to meet people where they are, assistant them to get where they want, and train highly qualified applied practitioners.

This month on Operant Innovations - Thought Leaders, we are speaking with Dr. Denise Ross as she tells us about her history and coming from a school with few African-American students, then being able to bring it full circle by teaching and producing BIPOC students, doctors, and researchers. Dr. Ross reminded me that every stop we take along our journey is purposeful in teaching us more about who we are and what our goals are.

As behavior analysts, we currently must renew our certification every two years by gaining a number of BACB CEUs—either 20 for BCaBAs or 32 for BCBAs. It is true that many professionals often get preoccupied with the day-to-day tasks in front of them: the tasks that have more immediate consequences. If they do not have time to attend conferences, they often end up trying to accrue most, or all, of their required CEUs immediately before the due date to renew their certification (fixed-interval pattern of responding, anyone?).

Join Operant Innovations as we speak to Rider University as we hear about their passion for training their students in a plethora of different fields of study within behavior analysis - for example gambling, basic, exercise, translational work, and more! With the plethora of community partnerships, Rider students have ample tracks to gain personalized experience.

This podcast episode describes the importance of teaching supervisees effective strategies for organization and time management. These strategies are described as critical stress management strategies as well as strategies for overall success in the workplace. Skills such as planning and running effective meetings, managing email/text/voicemail communications, schedule planning, and file management are all explored.

The phrase “leadership support” has become a cliché in discussing safety. We always hear about the importance of leadership support and “walking the talk.” The reason we hear so much about such support is because it is important. Yet it is too often poorly defined. Leadership support is often seen as just delivering a series of messages about the importance of safety.

Join Operant Innovations for our Turnover in Human Services Q&A with Dr. Byron Wine, BCBA-D, LBA.

Today we are joined by Dr. Dorothea Lerman, Dr. Sarah Lechago, Dr. Jennifer Fritz as well as two third-year master's students, Mary Signorella & Aunie Abernathy. This program is JAM PACKED and I have learned so much from speaking to this group of amazing women.

Safety is about Leadership: Placing employee behavior at the frontline in establishing a culture of company safety.

This is an intermediate to advanced paper that assumes that you have a basic understanding of behavior-based safety (BBS), a process that involves employees in conducting safety observations within their organizations.