I recently attended a meeting where they handed out cards to each person. Arriving at my seat, I read the card, saying, "What's the one thing in life that you have almost given up on?" This question ...

Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo Charter School is trying a unique method to improve behavior in the classroom. Buffalo United is working with resilience trainer Duncan Kirkwood to improve behavior ...

Like an online retailer trying to woo a customer back by offering a 10% discount on the boots they’ve been eyeing, education researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to understand how to incentivize ...

I first started working with children diagnosed with autism in the 1970s when the incidence was around 1 or 2 in every 10,000 children. It was a rare condition, and most children were ...

Like many people, you probably have good intentions when it comes to exercise. You know you should do it, you understand why it’s important, and yet… you just can’t seem to find the motivation to ...

A major function of leaders is to help inspire and motivate followers to execute the goals of the team or collective. Psychologists have studied motivation for well over a century. As a result, we ...