Happy New Year from Behavioural Insights Team Solutions Ltd.

We at BITS wish you a happy and healthy 2020! 2019 was a great year and was definitely busy. We delivered training to over 500 candidates and helped over 170 apprentices work towards a degree level qualification. We helped over 100 companies in the construction industry to improve their health and safety performance and inspected Read more about Happy New Year from Behavioural Insights Team Solutions Ltd.[…]

A Friday thought on attitude.

Here’s a tale from life that can teach us all a little about the power of a positive attitude. At the age of 84, my grandmother, having found herself living alone after the loss of my grandfather, decided to have a foreign holiday. Helping her with her passport application, my uncle (her son) suggested that Read more about A Friday thought on attitude.[…]

A Friday thought for Mother’s Day.

Mother knows best. This week’s article is a short and simple lesson from my mother.  My mother is sadly no longer with us, she never held a leadership role in business, but I believe she was a natural leader.  Here is an example of her style that hopefully illustrates a behavioural point in the leadership Read more about A Friday thought for Mother’s Day.[…]

A Friday thought on punishment

I accept what you are saying, but I still want to discipline people for doing things wrong. One of the most common areas for resistance in behavioural science is the concept of positive recognition for desired behaviours.  When presented with the scientific evidence that you get more with the carrot than you do with the Read more about A Friday thought on punishment[…]

Happy New Year from BITS

Happy New Year from Behavioural Insights Team Solutions!! 2018 was an exciting year for BITS ltd.  We have helped people in industries from power generation to food manufacture and worked with organisations from gearbox manufacturers to children’s charities.  We have helped almost 100 companies in the construction industry to work safer and trained over 1,000 Read more about Happy New Year from BITS[…]

A Friday Thought on the Income and Substitution Effect.

So, exactly how do you motivate your big earners?  It’s really as obvious as it sounds! A few weeks ago we published an article on the law of diminishing marginal returns, a classic A-level economics subject.  So whilst in A-level syllabus mode, we had a notion to do an article on the income and substitution Read more about A Friday Thought on the Income and Substitution Effect.[…]

A Friday thought on the law of diminishing returns.

So at what point does an additional cook spoil the broth? Through a number of engagements over the last week, the notion of diminishing returns has entered my work a couple of times.  On both occasions the idea was met with surprise by a number of colleagues.  So, I thought, if there are a handful Read more about A Friday thought on the law of diminishing returns.[…]

There’s only one way to eat an elephant burger, mindfully!

The trick is to take a small positive step. This week I attended a training course on mindfulness.  Working in the behavioural science sector, I have often read about and studied our current understanding of mental health.  This has often tended to be from a scientific standpoint, reading research and findings and considering statistical analysis.  Read more about There’s only one way to eat an elephant burger, mindfully![…]

An energetic future!

I have had a great couple of days chairing the O&M and Lifecycle Management Strategies for CCGT Power Plants Conference in Birmingham. Given the decarbonisation of electricity generation, we all know that the days of gas fired power plants are numbered.  No-one is certain what that number is, but they do not feature in any long Read more about An energetic future![…]

A Friday Thought on Empathy

Always right?  Try the alternate view. Do you ever feel like you are fighting an uphill battle?  You know the way forward but no one seems to be prepared to see things from your point of view?  We have all been there from time to time.  But what if this is a constant frustration?  What Read more about A Friday Thought on Empathy[…]