leadership

April 9, 2018

Fastest Way To Lose Respect As A Behavior Analyst or Leader

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D & Leanne Page, MEd, BCBA bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates As the field of behavior analysis rapidly grows, many newly certified Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) are leaping into new…

April 17, 2017

Top 5 Ways to Ruin Your Reputation as an Ethical Leader

By Brett Dinovi, M.A., BCBA CEO, Brett DiNovi & Associates When leaders put profits before people, ethical transgressions are often inevitable. There is no shortage of this in the corporate world recently. Enron. Wells Fargo. Volkswagen, and now United Airlines…

November 14, 2016

Compassionate Leadership: Mentoring in an ABA Service Provider

Pierre Louis, M.S. Ed., BCBA Executive Director of Training and Leadership Development, DiNovi & Associates It’s no secret that we are in a “Golden Age” of ABA. The industry is booming and agencies are hiring BCBAs and front line staff…

November 4, 2016

For High Performance, Focus on Results

By Daniel B. Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer Do you remember the jobs that you used to get as a kid? Mowing the lawn, raking leaves, shoveling snow, or working a paper route. When you think of these jobs, what…

October 27, 2015

Leading Without Authority: How to motivate people who don’t have to do what you say.

By Dan Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer Ever worked with a colleague or boss and struggled to get them to do something that needed to be done? In many situations we have the benefit of controlling a wide range of…

October 22, 2015

A Conversation With Dr. Scott Herbst of SixFlex Training

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org I recently had the chance to sit down with Dr. Scott Herbst, founder and lead trainer of the consulting company SixFlex Training, which focuses on developing leadership from an approach heavily…

July 29, 2015

Words, Sticks, Stones, and Feedback

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer Many of us struggle with giving difficult feedback. It isn’t fun. We want people to do well and we want to tell them they did well. Just last night, I went out of…

July 27, 2015

Entrepreneur Magazine: Lead by Positive Reinforcement

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Entrepreneur Magazine recently touted positive reinforcement as the preferred leadership style to get the best out of your staff and customers. Citing the work of business consultant Colin Shaw, the article…

July 8, 2015

The Language of Leaders

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer One of the recurring themes of the articles I tend to write for this site is that we live in a world constructed in language. It shapes our view of reality and then…