Need people to do something differently…?
Perhaps you’re implementing new technology, changing your culture, transforming how work gets done, or trying to improve safety, compliance or cybersecurity.
Whatever the change, ultimately success depends on humans behaving differently.
Making Change Happen is an eight-week applied behavioural science programme that helps your team understand why people behave the way they do and practically apply those insights to a real organisational challenge.
Build capability and solve a real problem, at the same time.
Making Change Happen…
An 8-week applied Behavioural Science programme, blending insights from Anthropology, Behavioural Economics, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Sociology with practical experience from real organisations across a range of industries across the globe.
Who it’s for
You might be in Change Management, Project Management, Communications, Transformation, CyberSecurity, Compliance, Safety, People & Culture, or Human Resources…
Whatever your job title, if your success depends on getting humans to do something differently, this is for you.
Bring your team. Making Change Happen runs as a private cohort. Participants can work on separate challenges, or collaborate on a shared organisational challenge.
What we’ll do
You’ll bring a real-life challenge from your organisation, the sort of really stubborn problem where you just can’t get people to change their behaviour.
Together we’ll complete 15 practical modules over 8 weeks.
Each module consists of approximately 1 hour of self-paced online content – a mix of video, audio, and reading, supplemented with optional reflection questions (no annoying eLearning quizzes, I promise…).
Each week you’ll complete 2 modules ahead of our weekly live group discussion session, which lasts 1 hour.
Each module includes further optional content if you want to “Dive Deeper”.
In the final week, you’ll bring it all together and present your approach to solving your real-world problem.
What you’ll learn
Weeks 1-4: Understanding Humans
- What are these social, emotional, tribal, storytelling animals we call “humans”?
- Why do they think, feel and behave the way they do?
| Week 1 | 1. Brains | What are brains and how do they work? |
| 2. Origins | Why do we have brains? | |
| Week 2 | 3. Senses | How do we experience the world? |
| 4. Feelings | What are emotions? | |
| Week 3 | 5. Stories | How do we make sense of the world? |
| 6. Memories | What are memories and how do they work? | |
| Week 4 | 7. Tribes | How do groups influence our behaviour? |
| 8. Decisions | How do we choose and act? |
Weeks 5-8: Making Change Happen
- How do we turn those insights into measurable behaviour change?
- How are you going to practically shift behaviour in your organisation?
| Week 5 | 9. Behaviours | What’s a behaviour and how do you define one? |
| 10. Measures | How do you measure behaviours? | |
| Week 6 | 11. Barriers | What gets in the way of desired behaviours? |
| 12. Methods | How do you investigate behavioural barriers? | |
| Week 7 | 13. Interventions | How do you shift behaviour? |
| 14. Experiments | How do you run an experiment in the real world? | |
| Week 8 | 15. Projects | How do you bring all this together to solve a real behavioural challenge? |
What you’ll leave with
By the end of the programme, you’ll have:
A clearly defined behavioural challenge
A precise understanding of what needs to change.
Evidence about what’s getting in the way
Rather than assumptions about why people “resist change”.
Practical interventions
Designed around the real behavioural and organisational barriers you’ve uncovered.
A plan to test and measure them
So you can learn what actually works.
A practical behavioural science toolkit
That you can apply to your next organisational challenge without me.