Leader-Member Exchange: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Walk into any organization, ask ten employees who report to the same manager, and you will get ten…
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Gamification Analysis
Articles on Gamification Analysis — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
Job Satisfaction: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every workplace-engagement metric ever invented sits on top of a question Edwin Locke answered in 1976: how does…
Job Characteristics: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Hackman & Oldham's Job Characteristics Model: five characteristics, MPS formula, three psychological states, and full Octalysis crosswalk.
Authentic Leadership: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Luthans & Avolio's four components, the Walumbwa ALQ, the construct-validity critique, and the Octalysis Crosswalk underneath.
Goal Orientation: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
The most expensive sentence in workplace design is the one a manager says without thinking: “We just want…
Situational Leadership: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every leadership development program promises to make you a better leader. Most of them are wrong about the…
Employee Engagement: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every Fortune 500 had an “engagement strategy” in 2023. Most of them spent six figures on a survey,…
Narrative Transportation: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Green and Brock's Narrative Transportation theory: three dimensions, the Transportation-Imagery Model, and how the Octalysis Core Drives engineer…
Libertarian Paternalism: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every behavioral designer is doing libertarian paternalism, whether they call it that or not. The cookie consent banner…