Self-Directed Change: Rewiring Habits on Purpose

  • Author: Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 30 minutes
The Science of Civility micro course
Course overview
You can direct your own change. Learn how habits really form, why 21 days is a myth, and simple tools to make one civility habit automatic.
  • Video time: 2 minutes
  • Certificate of Completion included

What's included?

  • 5 Lessons
  • 1 Certificate of Completion
  • 1 Worksheet
  • 3 Videos
  • 2 PDF downloads

What you will learn

Dr. Lew Bayer teaches that we can self-direct our own neural functioning. This micro module explains neuroplasticity in plain, accurate terms, corrects the 21-day habit myth with current research, and introduces the stages of change. It closes with practical tools, if-then plans and environment design, that you will use to build one civility habit of your own at work.

A tool you can use this week

The My Civility Habit Plan worksheet, which you download and complete for a real situation of your own.

Dr. Lew Bayer

CEO of Civility Experts Inc., author, and Canadian Civility Ambassador
ABOUT LEW
Dr. Lew Bayer is internationally recognized as the leading expert on civility at work. She is CEO of Civility Experts Inc., a multinational civility training group with more than 500 affiliates in 46 countries, and the author of 23 books, including the bestseller The 30% Solution and a new book on diplomacy due for release in January 2027. With some 30 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor, Lew and her team of social architects help organizations build better workplaces by building competency in civility. She serves as faculty at the Canadian Management Centre, is Director of the International Civility Trainers' Consortium, and is currently embracing her role as Canadian Civility Ambassador.
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