Behavior Change & Influence

$1,000

Examine core scientific principles from psychology that will help you understand your personality and motivation. This course will help you achieve your goals in fostering behavioral change and exerting greater influence.
Upcoming Start Date: April 12, 2024
Location: UT Austin

This certificate program consists of three required courses (listed below) and one elective course option.

This certificate is comprised of four single-day courses.

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Description

We all aim to keep up our motivation to do our best. But, what does that really mean? How can we consistently achieve peak performance at work and at home? Examine core scientific principles from psychology that will help you understand your personality and motivation. These principles are also essential for successful idea generation and unlocking individual and team creativity.

Led by psychology professor and HDO’s Founding Director Dr. Art Markman and drawing on research that was the basis for his book, Smart Change (each participant receives a copy), Markman provides insights from cognitive science to help you achieve your goals in fostering behavioral change and exerting greater influence.

Complete six lessons that will help you to get to know yourself better and understand how your feelings and goals influence your effectiveness. You will leave this class with specific tools and exercises to help you and the people around you to reach new heights.

Learning Objectives

The key lessons participants will explore in the course are:

  • Know Yourself: How does your unique set of personality characteristics influence the goals you seek? Learn to leverage those qualities to make you more effective.
  • What are your goals? Human psychology is exquisitely designed to allow you to achieve your goals. Use the latest research on motivation to help you learn to protect your long-term goals from short-term temptations.
  • Affect and Emotion: You may think that emotions only get in your way. Your emotions are valuable guides that serve as useful and efficient signals. Learn to use your emotions to make better decisions.
  • Build a Neighborhood: We engage in three broad kinds of relationships in life: strangers, neighbors, and family. Neighbor relationships are ideal in business contexts. This unit explores how to create better neighborhoods and ecosystems that support innovation.
  • Talents and Skills: Almost every aspect of thinking is actually a skill that can be acquired, but the way we give each other feedback often leads us to consider these thinking processes as talents that you have or you don’t.
  • Groups and Cultures: Modern business has made the world a smaller place. This unit explores a few core differences in thought processes that are typical of members of different cultures.
Certificate Requirements

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Details & Registration

Time: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 0.6 CEUs will be awarded upon completion of this program (six hours of instruction)

One-Day Seminar Pricing:

Registration fee includes all course materials, catering (lunch and refreshments), WiFi access, and parking.

  • Standard Registration: $1,000
  • UT System Staff/Alumni Registration: $750
  • Educator, Nonprofit, Government, Military Registration: $750

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If you have questions prior to registering, please see our Professional Training FAQ or contact Andrew M. Vasquez, HDO’s Enrollment & Success Coordinator at hdo-pro@austin.utexas.edu.

Course Leader(s)

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Art Markman, Ph.D.

Art Markman is the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and the Annabel Irion Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at The University of Texas at Austin. He was also the founding director of the HDO program. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Illinois and worked at Northwestern University and Columbia University before coming to The University of Texas at Austin in 1998.

Dr. Markman has published more than 150 scholarly works about cognitive science, decision-making and organizational behavior. Markman and several of his books, including Smart ThinkingSmart ChangeBring Your Brain to Work, and Brain Briefs (co-written with Dr. Bob Duke), have been featured on Dr. Phil and other programs.

Beyond the UT campus, he is probably best known as the co-host of KUT’s “Two Guys on Your Head” radio show and podcast, where he and Butler School of Music professor Bob Duke explore the human mind with a unique mix of research, humor and everyday relevance.


Who Should Participate

 

  • Senior/Executive Leadership
  • Managers and Directors
  • Team Leaders & Supervisors
  • Human Resources/Recruiting Directors & Managers
  • Anyone tasked with promoting behavior/culture change at their organization
Testimonial

The professor’s wide grasp of the field was extremely valuable. Dr. Markman was able to take what is to many a mass of interconnected human processes and tease out a logic and focus that leads to explanations and a very useful perspective. The seminar hooked me with the first slide’s subtitle: “using the motivational system to help yourself and others achieve long-term success.” The key word was “using,” and the seminar delivered on its promise, providing a thorough understanding of the motivational system in a way I have never mentally articulated.

Kia Reinis, Ph.D.

Senior Technical Specialist, ICF International

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