Don’t think. Do.

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.”
Alfred North Whitehead

Neuroscience tells us that our prefrontal cortex, the executive in our brain in control of our cognition, can manage only so many thoughts at one time. To get by, our system relies on the power of automation by leveraging habits we can do without thinking. Habits become hard wired into our brain’s basal ganglia through repetition.

Paul Middleton and Mike Heslin, our thought leader partners at 1st90, are embedding this neuroscience into their award-winning mobile learning platform. In doing so, they are helping to transform the way organizations bring about effective change, the kind that can impact their bottom line, through the daily habits of their leaders.

Paul and Mike are doing this by building into their mobile app ways for newly promoted leaders to establish habits from a growing 1st90 leadership library of best practices that fit both their unique needs and busy schedules. Those methods include brief daily learning and a related task or activity, automated reminders, and a social feed among cohorts to reinforce commitment, support, and follow-through.

How does that translate into what we can do for your organization?

We’ve been implementing learning paths on the 1st90 platform for large global clients for several years now (among them an award-winning initiative with SAP), and we recognized it as a good fit for one of our new clients, a global tech company with an aggressive plan for growth. They will be leveraging the 1st90 app to develop their leaders.

The process began with an impact map, during which we first establish a line of sight between the business impact the organization desires and the specific behaviors their leaders will need to master for them to be able to deliver those results.

By matching their desired results with the ever-growing 1st90 library of leadership best practices that are already broken down into small actions, and planning custom actions for the rest, the process to begin a highly custom, uniform, and scalable leadership transformation for this startup has taken only about 60 days.

Through the app, there is also a direct way to monitor engagement, follow-through, and the overall success of their learning initiative.

We’re excited, to say the least, to see how they grow!

If you’d like to know more, please contact us or talk to your Advantage partner.

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One great thing for 09.06.22 – How to start new habits that actually stick – James Clear, Atomic Habits