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A Quick Guide to Self-Management
If you want to consistently achieve personal goals, you must first learn to manage your behavior. The field of Applied Behavior Analysis has developed a set of procedures to help you do this. We call these strategies self-management.
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Agency and Shaping
Shaping, or the differential reinforcement of successive approximations, is thought by many to be the most important tool in the behavior analyst’s toolbox. Shaping is usually thought of as something one human does to change the behavior of another living organism, most often to a human but also to a pet or a laboratory subject of the nonhuman persuasion. In such cases, the human is the agent of the shaping in that the human decides the conditions under which successive approximations do or do not merit reinforcement.
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The Tipping Scale: Customer Gratuity and Quality of Service
Servers and wait staff deal with it all--heavy trays, plates with strangers’ food remains rude customers and neck-breathing management. A treasure trove of memes, Facebook posts, and popular articles chronicle the often grotesque conditions of serving strangers a meal and cleaning up after them. Many people (even some of our readers) likely waited tables in high school, college, or now as a career.
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Structured Problem solving skills part 1
“The supervisor plays a critical role in helping the supervisee overcome any avoidance contingencies that may be preventing them from noticing or reporting problems.”
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AC4P with Dr. Scott Geller 016 | Leadership vs. Management Part 1
Are you a leader or are you a manager? These terms are often used interchangeably, but do they actually mean the same thing? Dr. Scott Geller will go into the different behaviors of both leaders and mentors and how you can reflect on your behaviors.
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Behavior Based Safety (BBS)
BBS is an approach to occupational risk management that uses the science of behavior to increase safe behavior and reduce workplace injuries
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AC4P with Dr. Scott Geller 008 | The Three C's
Did you get a chance to listen to Dr. Scott Geller's Thought Leaders Episode this week?! If not, you should. In today's episode, Dr. Geller will further be explaining the Three C's and how to incorporate them. All while telling you a story that may make you rethink your first impressions.
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What’s Free About the Free Operant?
There is another question to be answered before considering the question in the title of this commentary: “What is a free operant, anyway?” It is an expression that sometimes appears in talks and articles, but it isn’t as common
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Manage Your Time Like It's All You've Got!
You will find practical tools in this book for using your own antecedents, behaviors, and consequences.We can
$49.99
September and Remembering our Beloved Founder
This is a collection of lessons and memories of our beloved founder collected from the staff at ABA Technologies
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Some Instructional Dos and Don’ts
We have to think in terms of accomplishments. What is the product? What is it that the student will actually do as a result of the instruction?
Joe Layng, PhD
$26.00
Thought Leaders 020 - Dr. Darnell Lattal - Part 2
This month on Operant Innovations - Thought Leaders, we are back with Dr. Darnell Lattal as she answers the questions "Where do you see the field going?" and/or "Where would he like to see the field go?"
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The Exceptional Supervisor Certificate
Teaching core leadership competencies for navigating the common challenges faced by leaders in the workplace today.
Operant Behavior and Snowflakes
Sitting here at my desk on a cold, snowy morning watching the snowflakes gently descend to blanket the landscape outside my window (such descriptions reveal why I am a behavior analyst and not a poet), reminds me of the operant (another reminder, too, of why I am not a poet). The operant is one of our most important concepts. Operants are classes of responses that have a similar effect on the environment. That effect can be to operate something that allows their measurement (like a child’s block-stacking or a pigeon’s key peck) or to produce a reinforcer or punisher.
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Is Corporate Training the Answer?
Performance problems plague organizations both big and small. Wherever humans work, performance is happening, and so too are problems. Though each company’s performance issues are unique, often a formulaic—read: cookie-cutter— approach is the chosen remedy.
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