The courses selected can be audited for free and you can find the audit instructions for Coursera and Edx courses.

Removing Barriers to Change | Coursera (Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania)

What does it mean to truly change something? How does one persuade others to change? How do we reduce roadblocks to change? In this course, you’ll learn about the barriers to change and how to become more effective in inspiring change within others and your organization. Professor Jonah Berger of the Wharton School has designed this course to help you understand the REDUCE framework, and shows you how to develop your skills of persuasion and influence. By the end of this course, you’ll know both the strengths and weaknesses of certain strategies for removing barriers in change, plus you'll learn how to leverage those strategies to achieve change in both business and in life.

The Surprising Power of Small Habits | James Clear

This presentation on the power of small habits was given to the 2015 SNAPS Leadership Conference Attendees at University of Texas at Arlington. James Clear writes about about behavioral psychology, habit formation, and performance improvement.

Strategies for Student Entrepreneurs

Beat imposter syndrome and build confidence by learning from failure, facing the hard questions, and always “playing up.”

Redesigning Life and Work for a New World

Using Ayse’s proven Deconstruction: Reconstruction™ process, participants will rethink how we got here and redesign what we do next. This is an opportunity to work with one of the most creative people you will ever meet and achieve more in just a few exercises than you thought possible.

The Art Of Choosing

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

Mastering Habits

Professor at Wharton Business interviews Gretchen Ruben, author of “Better Than Before”.

Extreme Focus

Unlock a massive opportunity by aligning the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Taking Risks and Breaking Barriers

Success requires a balance of flexibility and bold self-advocacy.

The Upside of Endings

Avoid overcommitment. If you start feeling overwhelmed, learn to gracefully say “no.”

Reframing Problems and Getting Honest

Bernard Roth, co-founder and academic director of Stanford University’s d.school, shares design-thinking tools for reframing life’s stubborn problems and unlocking solutions. Professor Roth, author of the book “The Achievement Habit,” also engages audience members in exercises meant to cut through the excuses we tell ourselves that hold us back from accomplishing our goals.

You can search Harvard Business Review to learn more articles on this topic. You can also check if your university library has a subscription to the Business Source Complete database, which provides full-text access to Harvard Business Review articles, or use the library’s interlibrary loan service to access the article.

The Ultimate Deliberate Practice Guide: How to Be the Best

Deliberate practice is the best technique for achieving expert performance in every field—including writing, teaching, sports, programming, music, medicine, therapy, chess, and business. But there’s much more to deliberate practice than 10,000 hours. Read this to learn how to accelerate your learning, overcome the “OK” plateau, turn experience into expertise, and enhance your focus.

The Making of an Expert

Popular lore tells us that genius is born, not made. Scientific research, on the other hand, reveals that true expertise is mainly the product of years of intense practice and dedicated coaching. Ordinary practice is not enough: To reach elite levels of performance, you need to constantly push yourself beyond your abilities and comfort level. Such discipline is the key to becoming an expert in all domains, including management and leadership.

Focus on “Microhabits” to Change Your Behavior

High achievers often have lofty aspirations for self-improvement. But big goals — such as “meditate for an hour every day,” or “read more” — are often more burdensome than they are sustainable. So, start small by focusing on “microhabits” — more achievable behaviors that you build over long periods of time. These habits should be ridiculously small, like meditating for 30 seconds or reading a paragraph each night. To minimize effort, piggyback on a daily task.

Two Techniques for Helping Employees Change Ingrained Habits

Far too little time and focus is devoted to how to change existing habits and behaviors, which are often the greatest barriers to personal growth. Behavioral science sheds some light on how we can change our habits. The first step is considering your ideal future state and the obstacles you expect to face on the way to achieving that state.

Grow Your Business by Changing Habits

In his classic, Talks to Teachers, William James observed that “All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.” Essentially, from the time we wake up to the time we go to sleep, most of our daily activities are repetitive, unconscious habits. We brush our teeth, eat breakfast, go to gym and do things which, on closer examination, happen without much will and reason. They’re just habits. A daily mass of these habits, over time, provides a behavioral map, which helps predict most individuals’ actions. Corporations are no different. Organizational culture is an amalgam of habits. And depending on the dominant habits, firms will either fail or succeed.

Define Your Organization's Habits to Work More Efficiently

We don’t often think about the way we usually operate at work, whether we’re performing an informal five-step process for evaluating a new proposal, or setting priorities for managing our time. But our ability to improve the ways we do things depends on defining and shaping our daily habits of mind and practice — our “standard work.”

Click the link to find a Worldcat book record; enter a zipcode to check which library nearby has the book you can borrow. When the record is not available, a link to Amazon is provided.

• Clear, James. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results : an Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. New York: Avery, 2018. Print.

• Duhigg, Charles, and Mike Chamberlain. The Power of Habit Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. New York: Random House Audio, 2016. Print.

• Goldsmith, Marshall/ R. M. Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts-Becoming the Person You Want to Be. Random House Inc, 2015. Print.

• Milkman, Katherine and Angela Duckworth. How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be and Others Don't. S.l.: Bantam Press, 2021. Print.

Read More Books on This Topic