Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining me in session 239 of behavioral observations. In this episode, I'm joined by Anika Costa and Dr. Polygovoni, and we discussed their latest book, Quick Wins, using behavior science to accelerate and sustain school improvement. In our conversation, we talk about why they felt this book was necessary, who represents their ideal reader, and whether we ask too much of school leaders. We also talk about the distinction

between leading and lagging indicators, viewing relationships as accomplishments, their

quick walk protocol, and what things leaders should do before providing corrective feedback to

staff members.

I should also note that even if you're not in a school setting,

a lot of what we talk about today will be applicable in the general realm of leadership and management.

Polly and Nika are presenting what sounds like a great talk at this year's Stone Soup conference.

It's called Tough Talks, which, by the way, if you decide to attend Stone Soup, you can save on your registration by using the promo code podcast.

And at the very end of the show, the three of us engaged in a little bit of shameless self-promotion by talking about the project we've been working on for almost two years.

It's called the behavioral toolbox. It's essentially an e-learning site we built for school-based professionals who are interested in learning how to improve student behavior in educational settings.

We just launched our first course. It's called Ready Set Consult, and we have many more in various

stages of development. In fact, I'm about to film

the second course in the next week. So I'm really excited to get this information out there and

share it with folks in school-based settings. So we've done our best to, you know, and to that

end, we've done our best to make the content accessible. We've avoided

jargon wherever we could, and we hope this is something that's helpful to those out there

who are struggling to improve student behavior in those settings. But anyway, back again to this

particular podcast. The Quick Wins book, again, is available wherever you buy books.

I've got links to Amazon and the show notes, but you can pick it up just about anywhere.

And if you do, I really hope you like it. So without any further delay, let's get to this

fun conversation with Polly and Anika.

Music fun conversation with Polly and Anika. Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior

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