307 Building Your Social Habit
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Wednesday, September 30
Social
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We all know we may have some bad habits: biting nails, tapping our feet, regularly eating junk food. But did you know you can also work to create productive habits—habits that can improve your performance and build your knowledge? Those who have built diverse social networks are not only building more powerful relationships, they’re opening doors to new opportunities and staying ahead of the curve in their practice, and they seem to do it almost unconsciously … like a habit.
Being social is human nature. However, using social tools to augment social networking is not, and for many these behaviors just don’t stick. In this session you will work to define your goals, identify triggers to spark activity, and assess your environment to support your growing network capability. Additionally, you will develop your own key implementation intentions and identify natural feedback loops to sustain your routines and build a powerful social habit.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to analyze your current network to identify the gaps
- How to identify your social cues (content, conversations)
- How to craft implementation intentions to formalize habit development
- How to recognize your tangible and intangible rewards (connections, knowledge application)
- How to use your personal path to scale social network growth in your organization
Audience:
Intermediate and advanced designers, developers, project managers,
managers, and directors.
Technology
discussed in this session:
N/A
Mark Britz
Director of Event Programming
Learning Guild
Mark Britz is the director of event programming at The Learning Guild. Previously he worked for more than 15 years designing and managing learning solutions with organizations such as Smartforce, Pearson Digital Learning, the SUNY Research Foundation, Aspen Dental Management, and Systems Made Simple. Mark is also an organizational social designer, helping businesses achieve the benefits of becoming more connected and collaborative to improve learning and engagement. Mark is the author of Social By Design: How to create and scale a collaborative company, and regularly presents and writes about the use of social media for learning, collaborative networks, and organizational design.
