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.
Work with Yu-kai
The Blog
Gamification Analysis
Articles on Gamification Analysis — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
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,…
EAST Nudge Framework: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every government in 2014 had an “evidence-based policy” team. Almost none of them had a checklist their delivery…
Test, Learn, Adapt: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every public-sector team I have ever advised believes it tests its policies. Almost none of them do. They…
EPPM Fear Appeals: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every public-health campaign and every safety brief in the world is built on the same gamble: that a…
Protection Motivation Theory: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every fear campaign you have ever seen, the cigarette pack with the diseased lung, the IT-department phishing-training video,…