Change Management: tips from wild animal trainers

In How I put my husband through the hoops Amy Sutherland writing in G2 for the UK Guardian describes how she used tricks trainers use on wild animals such as dolphins, elephants and african crested cranes to modify her husbands behavior!

change_manageme.jpg


Amy also learned the true meaning of the animal trainers motto:

"It is never the animals fault"


These animal change management tricks include:

  1. rewarding new positive behavior and simply ignoring old negative behavior

  2. "approximations" where you create and reward interim steps to a larger behavior change

  3. least reinforcing syndrome (LRS) where you avoid any response whatsovever to unhelpful behaviors

  4. "incompatible behaviors" where instead of trying to stop a negative behavior you replace it with a different (positive) behavior

All of these techniques can be helpful in nurturing a traditional team into a bioteam.

Comments (0)| Related (3) |

Email to a friend | Print this article

3 Comments | Leave a comment

user-pic

Funny because its true. I wonder if we could use the same interpersonal strategies with people we work with on teams !

user-pic

i love animals so much

user-pic

I heard that rumour you Frigging Animal Lover.

Leave a comment

 


Bioteams Books Reviews

Complex adaptive systems and virtual team collaboration

Complex adaptive systems and virtual team collaboration
Leading complexity thinkers apply biological principles to enterprises: The Biology of Business is a set of essays by ten researchers and practitioners in Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS).


Buy it now from:
Amazon.Com
Amazon.Co.UK


Comments (1) |

continue reading

Click here to check all Bioteams book reviews

Discover Bioteams principles Yourself via Action Learning BioScore Calculator – Instantly see if you need Bioteams Bioteams Assessor - Instantly check how good your team is?

Ken Thompson's Blogs & Online Resources

Translate this page

Français Deutsch Nederlands Español

Featured Categories

Featured Article

Team joining hands

The secret DNA of high-performing virtual teams

Bioteaming – the secret to high-performing, self-organising, virtually networked teams... more

Key Essays - view all

Click for more...

Hot Tags

agility ants autopoiesis bees biomimicry bioteaming bioteams collaboration collective intelligence complex systems ecosystems flock leadership meetings mobile phones organizational teams pheromones self-managed teams simulators Social Networks social software swarm swarm intelligence teamwork The Networked Enterprise tit for tat VEN videos virtual communities virtual enterprise networks virtual teams web2.0 wisdom of crowds

Click for more...

>> www.bioteams.mobi <<

iphone | android | blackberry Top Leadership Blog NASA Widget2_160x40.jpg Wired Mag on Bioteams Guardian Widget_16040.jpg Bioteams Manifesto

View my LinkedIN Profile

Search www.bioteams.com

Bioteams Ice-Breaker Zone

Funny Team Collaboration Video Dilbert Mission Statement Generator Ali G Video Funny Red Dwarf Video  FatherTed  Pixar



Participate in the Bioteams Community powered by

Bioteams Swarm Button

Is bioteams a global trend?

Locations of visitors to this page

Get my new blogs on Twitter

follow ken.thompson at http://twitter.com

Newsletter

News Feed

Sign up for RSS   RSS Feed Subscription
        (What's RSS?)

10 Most popular posts

Recent posts

Archives

Download Browsealoud


My Top Blogs

Movable Type Content Management System Developed and Hosted by PRO IT Service

Swarnteams Completely Connected

Blog Directory