Join us on Thursday, January 18, 2024 from 10:30 to 11:00 CDT for the third webinar in Humaculture, Inc.’s “Optimal Behavior: Making Optimal Behavior the Natural Choice.” You will learn why the self can hamper performance and well-being and how to help People to grow capabilities, inspire motivation, overcome barriers, and resist temptations in order to lead to optimal behavior.
In this third session in our series on optimal behavior, we explore how the Context of Self influences behavior. To be effective within the Organization, People need to know and manage themselves through their own narrative and understand the same for the People around them. Organizations fail to use narrative stories to connect People to the meaning of changes they are trying to make. Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson says our “originating stories” or narrative identities (the stories we tell ourselves) can hold us back and make it difficult to resist temptation. Organizations are not well known for rewarding failure. Several big names, including Google and Tata, have bucked the trend by celebrating initiatives that are unsuccessful – we’ll explore why that makes sense to them. Organizations shy away from giving People constructive feedback, yet People need feedback to Grow. Organizations fail to articulate the reason the Organization exists and how People connect with it. To inspire people to perform, Organizational purpose needs to be clear and create emotional attachment, driving motivation. Finally, Organizations associate fun as something that happens outside the workplace and having fun is regarded as unproductive. However, scientists have discovered that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain, unless it is done in play, in which case it only takes 10-20 reps.
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Albert Einstein
Context of Self to Promote Optimal Behavior Key Takeaways
Join us to learn:
How ineffective organizations don’t:
Understand how People change behavior
Motivate and inspire change
Recognize how People inhibit sustained behavior change
How effective organizations:
Grow competence in change resilience
Inspire and motivate
Deploy change sustaining reinforcement tools
Available Support
We are available to support you in your strategy, design, compliance, financial, and monitoring needs. Our team includes business and human relations leaders, finance experts, actuaries, clinicians, behavioral health experts, pharmacy experts, and legal resources to guide you through the strategy and compliance process. Please contact us: [email protected].
In this second session in our series on optimal behavior, we explore how spaces influence behavior. The physical space in which you work can elicit mental and physical reactions that impact positively on performance, mental wellbeing and physical health. Today, physical configuration of buildings reflects a bias toward human energy conservation—and against physical activity, thereby contributing to sedentary behavior which has been linked to nearly all costly lifestyle diseases. In addition, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 30% of new or remodeled office buildings show signs of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and that between 10% and 30% of the occupants of these buildings are affected by SBS, e.g. lethargy.
Research further indicates that your physical space can have a positive effect of up to 22% on a range of performance indicators, such as improved concentration, focus, collaboration, learning and cognitive control (working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility). Furthermore, loyalty to an organization is increasingly determined by social and place attachment.
Shaping Spaces to Promote Optimal Behavior Key Takeaways
Join us to learn:
Why spaces do not support well-being and may lead to sickness
Why spaces hamper performance
Why spaces are built counter to tasks
How effective spaces can be designed to:
Support healthy behavior and choices
Improve innovation and performance
Support efficient task completion
Available Support
We are available to support you in your strategy, design, compliance, financial, and monitoring needs. Our team includes business and human relations leaders, finance experts, actuaries, clinicians, behavioral health experts, pharmacy experts, and legal resources to guide you through the strategy and compliance process. Please contact us: [email protected].
Watch
Watch the Career Planning: Effective Pruning Bears Fruit: Manager Development Webinar Replay via Rumble.
Watch a replay of the Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives (ICSL) presentation on “Excess Mortality: A Peek Under the Iceberg” in which our CEO, Steve Cyboran, ASA, MAAA, FCA, CEBS participated. Steve discusses possible causes leading to an increase in mortality and morbidity post COVID-19, how we can use proactive health risk mitigation to respond, and what the returns may look like.
Presenters
Steve Cyboran, ASA, MAAA, FCA, CEBS, CEO, Consulting Actuary, Humaculture, Inc.
Josh Stirling, Founder of Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives, Insurtech Advisor, Board Director and Former #1 Ranked Insurance Analyst
Mary Pat Campbell, FSA, MAAA, Vice President, Insurance Research, Conning
Teresa Winer, FSA, MAAA, Actuary, Office of Insurance and Fire Safety Commissioner, Georgia
Objective
At the ICSL, dozens of industry executives have been developing a plan to help insurers proactively address the tragedy of on-going 20% increased mortality since 2020. Excess mortality and morbidity is a problem for our industry, and society. The ICSL brings together insurers to work together to solve it. Learn more about the impact we can make in the video. Steve Cyboran presents at 27:31.
Key Takeaways
Through May of 2023 US mortality continues to be 20% high for ages 15 through 45
There are underlying health conditions leading to excess mortality
Insurers and employers can have impact that makes financial sense
There are innovative ways to improve financial results
We are available to support you in your strategy, design, compliance, financial, and monitoring needs. Our team includes business and human relations leaders, finance experts, actuaries, clinicians, behavioral health experts, pharmacy experts, and legal resources to guide you through the strategy and compliance process. Please contact us: [email protected].
Join us on Thursday, October 19, from 10:30 to 11:00 CDT for the second webinar in Humaculture, Inc.’s “Optimal Behavior: Making Optimal Behavior the Natural Choice.” You will learn why spaces can hamper performance and well-being and how to design your spaces to lead to optimal behavior.
In this second session in our series on optimal behavior, we explore how spaces influence behavior. The physical space in which you work can elicit mental and physical reactions that impact positively on performance, mental wellbeing and physical health. Today, physical configuration of buildings reflects a bias toward human energy conservation—and against physical activity, thereby contributing to sedentary behavior which has been linked to nearly all costly lifestyle diseases. In addition, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 30% of new or remodeled office buildings show signs of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and that between 10% and 30% of the occupants of these buildings are affected by SBS, e.g. lethargy.
Research further indicates that your physical space can have a positive effect of up to 22% on a range of performance indicators, such as improved concentration, focus, collaboration, learning and cognitive control (working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility). Furthermore, loyalty to an organization is increasingly determined by social and place attachment.
Shaping Spaces to Promote Optimal Behavior Key Takeaways
Join us to learn:
Why spaces do not support well-being and may lead to sickness
Why spaces hamper performance
Why spaces are built counter to tasks
How effective spaces can be designed to:
Support healthy behavior and choices
Improve innovation and performance
Support efficient task completion
Available Support
We are available to support you in your strategy, design, compliance, financial, and monitoring needs. Our team includes business and human relations leaders, finance experts, actuaries, clinicians, behavioral health experts, pharmacy experts, and legal resources to guide you through the strategy and compliance process. Please contact us: [email protected].
Watch a replay of the first webinar in Humaculture, Inc.’s “Optimal Behavior: Making Optimal Behavior the Natural Choice” to learn why organizations don’t effectively execute change and be introduced to some of the concepts that facilitate optimal behaviors to support a high-performing culture.
This is the introductory webinar in our new series on optimal behavior. We explore why people have difficulty in achieving and sustaining change, the difference between short term changes in behavior and long term change through habits, what it takes to achieve optimal behavior in a population, and how to use influence to create a high-performing culture.
Creating the Conditions for Optimal Behavior Key Takeaways
During this session, participants will learn that:
Why people find it hard to behave optimally
Why people behave inconsistently
Why organizations fail to execute change effectively
How effective organizations:
Set the contexts to influence behavior
Understand the powers that influence behavior
Use influence to create a high-performing culture
Available Support
We are available to support you in your strategy, design, compliance, financial, and monitoring needs. Our team includes business and human relations leaders, finance experts, actuaries, clinicians, behavioral health experts, pharmacy experts, and legal resources to guide you through the strategy and compliance process. Please contact us: [email protected].
Watch
Watch the Career Planning: Effective Pruning Bears Fruit: Manager Development Webinar Replay via Rumble.
Watch our CEO, Steve Cyboran, present at the following events.
Description: Excess Mortality – A Peek Under the Iceberg
Everyone is attentively watching the current excess mortality and morbidity crisis unfolding. We think it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Join our cross-industry team as we share a proprietary analysis of U.S. and global public health data digging into the underlying problems. Discover the iceberg of health problems underlying the elevated death and disability we see playing out in the bottom line. Can anything be done to slow this train? Risk mitigation strategies for insurers will be explored, with an invitation for participants to exchange ideas within the group. This will be a combination of presentation, panel, and Q&A discussion with multiple presenters including actuaries and other industry experts.
By the end of these sessions, attendees will understand:
An up-to-date perspective on the current excess mortality and morbidity crisis
Insight into the myriad of underlying health conditions
Innovative ideas to improve financial results
Country Relevance: Non-Nation Specific
Experience Level: All levels
Presenters
Steve Cyboran, ASA, MAAA, FCA, CEBS, CEO, Consulting Actuary, Humaculture, Inc.
Josh Stirling, Founder of Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives, Insurtech Advisor, Board Director and Former #1 Ranked Insurance Analyst
We are available to support you in your strategy, design, compliance, financial, and monitoring needs. Our team includes business and human relations leaders, finance experts, actuaries, clinicians, behavioral health experts, pharmacy experts, and legal resources to guide you through the strategy and compliance process. Please contact us: [email protected].
Join the Houston Business Coalition on Health (HBCH) for its annual meeting where HBCH will be outlining the value of alternative medical facility healthcare. Our CEO, Steve Cyboran, ASA, MAAA, FCA, CEBS will be facilitating a session during the meeting.
Panel topics include:
Independent Primary Care Clinics
Onsite / Near Site Clinics
Retail Clinics
Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Free Standing Imaging Centers
Free Standing Specialty Infusion Centers
Community Oncology Clinics
Home Health Care
Digital / Telemedicine
Event Info
Breakfast and Lunch: Included
Time: August 24, 2023 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM (CDT)
Location: 6500 Main St, Houston, TX, 77030, United States (Rice University – Bioscience Research Collaborative Building)
Join us on Thursday, August 24, from 10:30 to 11:00 CDT for the first webinar in Humaculture, Inc.’s “Optimal Behavior: Making Optimal Behavior the Natural Choice.” You will learn why organizations don’t effectively execute change and be introduced to some of the concepts that facilitate optimal behaviors to support a high-performing culture.
This is the introductory webinar in our new series on optimal behavior. We will explore why people have difficulty in achieving and sustaining change, the difference between short term changes in behavior and long term change though habits, what it takes to achieve optimal behavior in a population, and how to use influence to create a high-performing culture.
Creating the Conditions for Optimal Behavior Key Takeaways
During this session, participants will learn that:
Why people find it hard to behave optimally
Why people behave inconsistently
Why organizations fail to execute change effectively
Please join Humaculture, Inc. and Virtuositeam for our Humaculture® Perspective Series on Optimal Behavior. This series will focus on how to create the conditions to Make Optimal Behavior the Natural Choice.
In this webinar series, we explore ways organizations can incorporate research-based, practical approaches to nurture and support optimal behaviors. Optimal behaviors are those that are the most beneficial to the individual as well as the organization.
Horticulturists consider the impact of the conditions in which plants are grown (e.g., climate, soil structure, space and fertility, arrangement, companion planting). Growth and productivity improve when the context of each dimension is appropriately addressed, and the responses of each plant to these conditions are clearly understood and applied. Expertise from fields like botany and soil sciences provide the successful horticulturist with the information to do their jobs well.
Similarly, Humaculturists consider the Seven Dimensions of Humaculture® to employ knowledge solidly “rooted” in science for the best results. Behavioral Research Applied Technology Laboratory (BRATLAB), Virtuositeam’s research arm, set out to answer some crucial questions related to understanding changes in behavior and habit creation:
Which habits really matter, and to what degree, to the three biggest hidden drivers of sustained performance at work, human health, happiness, and security?
How do we support people to practice these habits in a way that they experience as easy and natural, and that leaves them feeling highly engaged with their employer?
Four Powers Model of Change
The result: the Four Powers Model of Change. This model helps organizations create a thriving culture by leveraging this key distinction: how people THINK they behave and make decisions, versus how they ACTUALLY behave and make decisions. Four Powers is based on behavioral theories and validated research from a variety of leading thinkers, behavioral research laboratories, and BRATLAB’s own extensive field testing. BRATLAB looked across industries to find the influence techniques that have been successfully used to shape employee and customer behavior for years.
We are available to support you in your strategy, design, compliance, financial, and monitoring needs. Our team includes experts in organization design, actuarial science, clinical, and legal can guide the process to achieve optimal behavior. Please contact us.
Join the Houston Business Coalition on Health for this employer-only event (consultants may come with their client) where HBCH will be outlining the concept, timeline, and benefits for participating in the Houston Smart Network. Our CEO, Steve Cyboran, ASA, MAAA, FCA, CEBS will presenting during the meeting.
Lunch will be served!
HBCH is on the cusp of developing a Houston-based alternative to your regular health plan that provides more for less. HBCH will highlight Smart Network benefits, including better health outcomes, less cost for you and your employees, and an integrated, simple employee experience.
This interactive discussion will include:
The urgent need for a Smart Network in Houston
Overview of the Smart Network – a different but proven type of benefits option
Explain the benefits of the Houston Smart Network, understand employer interests, including willingness to support financially, and learn about new Texas legislation that will be gamechanger for employers. Interested employers can contribute to the development of the Houston Smart Network, and each dollar may be matched by two major philanthropic organizations.
