Research and publications

Ideas should be visible before they are treated as settled.

This is the Institute’s single publication library. Working papers and future research briefs, frameworks, commentary, case studies and validation studies will appear here with their type, author, date, version and status made clear.

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Working Papers

5 entries
Working Paper

Designing Execution Pathways That Support Performance

Institute of Behavioural Performance

A working method for designing roles and systems around individual strengths and energy patterns while holding required outcomes constant, including design moves, evidence standards and ethical practice.

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Working Paper

The Foundations of Behavioural Performance

Institute of Behavioural Performance

A working account of the field’s core constructs — strengths, energy patterns, task demands, alignment, friction, system design and engagement — and the eight-stage pathway model that connects them.

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Working Paper

What Is Behavioural Performance?

Institute of Behavioural Performance

A proposed definition, premises, scope and research agenda for Behavioural Performance: an emerging applied discipline focused on person-specific execution systems.

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Working Paper 002

Measurement Without Diagnosis

Ethical and regulatory boundaries in commercial behavioural assessment

Brett Dodds

Commercial behavioural assessment operates in a space adjacent to clinical psychology without being equivalent to it and without always being subject to the same professional regulation.

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Working Paper 001

The Energy–Behaviour Distinction

Why trait-only profiling may be insufficient for the owner-operator

Brett Dodds

Commercial behavioural assessment for business owners is dominated by instruments that measure stable dispositional traits and report them as though they are sufficient to explain conduct.

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Working papers develop propositions and invite examination. They are not presented as peer-reviewed findings. Future document types will be labelled according to what they are and what they can support.

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