How Understanding The Brain Helps Leaders Build Habits At Scale
The only constant in life is change, as they say. But you can’t expect your behaviors to change just because you really want them to. The same goes for leaders who want to create behavior change in their team members. Early excitement fades over time, and soon we settle back into our old ways.
Leaders looking to make changes in their organization must move beyond buy-in, and replace unproductive habits with new, better habits that employees can stick to. By helping people “pave over” the existing, undesired behaviors with more effective ones, leaders can create a culture that lives the organization’s mission.
To cut through the myths and misconceptions about behavior change, I sat down with NLI’s Senior Director of Neuroscience Research, Dr. Kamila Sip, to get a better sense of how developing new habits really happens and how it relates to behavior change.