psychology

marketing psychology Toolkit 

Presenting Tips for the Anxious Innovator

October 8, 2019October 2, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 190 Views 0 Comments anxiety, communication, knowledge translation, positive psychology, presentation, psychology, tools

The opportunity to teach is a chance to influence others. Here’s some tips and tricks to make that moment better.

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behaviour change psychology 

Behavioural Design, Attention & Change

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 364 Views 0 Comments attention, behaviour change, behavioural design, book, change, design, distraction, nir eyal, psychology

How do we design for attention in a distracted world? Nir Eyal has some answers to provide the focus we

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innovation psychology 

Positivity, Flexibility, and Self-care

September 19, 2019September 18, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 229 Views 0 Comments innovation, performance, positive psychology, psychology, self-care, workplace

We can forget the needs of the people doing innovation. Looking after ourselves requires a new set of innovation skills.

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innovation 

Innovation Psychology

September 17, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 214 Views 0 Comments censemaking, culture of innovation, innovation, innovation lab, mindset, organizational psychology, psychology

Highlights on innovation psychology inspired by the Censemaking Newsletter. Today we dive a little further into some of the headlines

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innovation 

Innovation to Your Inbox

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 293 Views 0 Comments communication, design, design thinking, evaluation, innovation, marketing, newsletter, organizational change, psychology, social media, strategic foresight, systems thinking

Of the many ways to reach people, email still works. Sometimes innovation is best doing new things with old tools.

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evaluation innovation psychology 

Deception and Labels

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 379 Views 0 Comments demographics, failure, future of work, identity, innovation, label, measurement, psychology, research, work

Labels can shape the behaviour they describe, affecting our research. Knowing when labels describes or shapes actions makes a difference.

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behaviour change psychology strategic foresight 

Getting Out of Our Heads

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 381 Views 0 Comments art, beauty, behaviour change, cognition, cognitive science, H.L. Mencken, health behaviour change, health psychology, John Wenger, Leonardo da Vinci, organizational aesthetics, psychology, sociodrama, strategic foresight, strategy, theory

Too much change psychology focuses on the way we think. Sometimes creating change requires we get out of our heads.

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behaviour change psychology science & technology 

Conflicted Interests

July 12, 2019July 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 369 Views behaviour change, creativity, discovery, innovation, learning, psychology, rationality, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, science, theory

Shifting outcomes requires shifts in our thinking about what works The science journal Nature recently published a thought piece looking

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behaviour change business design thinking 

How do we sit with time?

May 16, 2018August 15, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 248 Views behaviour change, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, knowledge translation, learning, organizational development, psychology, time

Organizational transformation efforts from culture change to developmental evaluation all depend on one ingredient that is rarely discussed: time. How

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complexity evaluation social innovation 

Developmental Evaluation’s Traps

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 280 Views change, complexity, culture of innovation, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, innovation, language, Michael Quinn Patton, mindful organizations, mindset, organizational development, psychology, sensemaking, Seth Godin, social innovation, Star Wars, Sting, systems thinking, VUCA

Developmental evaluation holds promise for product and service designers looking to understand the process, outcomes, and strategies of innovation and

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