1. The document discusses behavioural flexibility and how people can make their behaviors more flexible. 2. It notes that the brain forms pathways through repetition, making change difficult, and that real experiences outside one's normal range are needed to learn and develop. 3. The Professor's company, Do Something Different, helps organizations and individuals increase their behavioral flexibility through diagnostic processes, customized programs of new activities, and feedback from participants who report feeling like different people and improving important skills.

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Professor Karen Pine
Do Something Different
www.dsd.me
Behavioural flexibility: Get off the
couch and do something different

3. Personality… ….. or prison?

4. !The brain: repetition and inertia hard-wired!
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• Brain!pathways!movie!here!

5. The!Problem!Zone!
!‘Event’!1!
:appropriate!!
behaviour!
Intravert! Extravert!
One!person’s!!
behavioural!repertoire!
The!range!of!possible!behaviours!
Event!2! Event!3!
Behavioural Flexibility !

7. How can we make people more
behaviourally flexible?
Don’t change what they know
Change what they do

8. We learn, grow and develop by
doing new things. Not by
thinking or reasoning. By
having real experiences that
are outside our normal range.
!
Behaviour change principle No.1

9. Stephen, 38, Director of Operations

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12. If you keep using the same
behaviour trait – even one that’s
made you successful – you stay
on the same brain pathway.
Then you stop growing. You
stagnate.
Behaviour change principle No.2

13. Learning by Doing
• Brain!neurons!longer!video!here!

14. Becoming more behaviourally flexible:
“If I get a new piece of work in, I try to approach someone different
to work with. I think differently about my approach to things,
challenge my automatic thought of ‘my way is the right way’”.
Senior Manager, Tax
“If it’s cured my of anything I am a better listener, people have said I
interrupt less”
Manager, Marketing

15. • Agility!at!work!
• Community!development!
• Diversity!and!inclusiveness!!
• Flexible!people!!
• Happiness!
• Health!and!wellbeing!
• OrganisaKonal!development!
• Work!de:stress!
• Valuing!people!
!!
Do!Something!Different!is!working!for:!

16. 1. Analyse!the!behavioural!habits!in!relaKon!to!the!
target!objecKve!!
2. Profile!individuals!to!idenKfy!where!they!have!
‘gaps’!in!their!behaviours!
3. Create!a!bespoke!programme!of!Do’s!that!they!
receive!by!text!or!email!for!6!weeks!
PuUng!Do!Something!Different!to!work!!

17. For!the!Do:er:!
“I#enjoyed#the#
diagnos0c#process#and#
learned#a#lot#about#
myself”#
“I#really#looked#forward#
#to#ge<ng#my#Do’s.#I#
could#fit#them#into#my#
working#day”#
“It#was#great#fun”##
“I#did#some#cool#
stuff”#
#“I#feel#a#different#
person#now”#

18. !!

19. www.dsd.me!

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