The Fun Factor

This video shows how you can change people’s behavior when you make them have fun.
 

I’m just back from Toronto where I did two workshops next to AgileTourToronto. Last day was AgileGameDay. A whole day of playing games to learn serious stuff.
The reasons for me behind these [...]

Plugging the Hanoulle Family

When you google Hanoulle, most of the 12.600 hits are about me.
That is not so strange, as I am already 14 years online. (I was one of the founders of www.Jeugdwerknet.be) And I have been very active online. But I’m not the only Hanoulle online.
You have my nephew Stefan Hanoulle
 
His sister Trui [...]

Happy New Year 2009 Video Card

Click here to see last years New Years video in English or onze 2008 nieuwjaars wensen in het nederlands
Click here to go to YouTube and click on the “Watch in high quality” link below the video to watch the video in high quality.
If you like it, please leave a message [...]

Bent en zijn bril

Bentje draagt nu 4 dagen zijn bril. Sederd mijn post van een paar dagen geleden krijgen we massa’s steunbetuigingen.
Het doet deugd om verhalen te horen van mensen die het zelfde met hun kinderen meemaken, of van mensen die zelf als kind al heel jong een bril dragen. Bedankt !!
Ondertussen lukt het Bent aardig goed [...]

Geike: 9 months + 1 day: first visit to the sea…

Geike really enjoyed her first visit of the sea. She curiously played with the sand (with both hands and feet) without putting it in her mouth.
(When Joppe was a little older then she was, he ate earth and leaves…)
Geike has 2 teeth ready to come out.
And the boys? Look for yourself:

 
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Paying by SMS…

This week I went to Gent with my two sons by bus. As I had little money on me as we left, I paid the bus by SMS for the first time.
When we came back My mobile phone ran out of power before we got home. So I was in doubt what would happen if [...]

Joppe’s welcoming

 
I had been away for one week: starting with ESSAP and ending with a 4 day session of my Gestalt training.
When I came back Joppe had made me a surprise.
I am Yves Hanoulle, your virtual Project Coach and you can reach me @ Yves at my agile training company .net

I’m putting my children’s names in my biography, CV etc…

I’m the father of Joppe (2002, Bent (2004), Geike(2007)
Whenever I send my CV or put my biography somewhere, I get the remark why do you put the fact that you have 3 kids in there?
Well I’m proud of being a father, I know that being a father influences how I think about leadership. [...]

Hoe worden kindjes gemaakt?

5 jarige joppe: Papa als er een kindje gemaakt wordt van een zaadcelletje en een eicelletje, waar zit dan de baby ervoor? Zitten de beentjes in het eitje en de armpjes in het zaadcelletje?Papa: Euh nee. Voordien bestaat de baby niet. Joppe: Hoe kan dat dan, de baby moet toch ergens zitten? Papa: Je kan [...]

Vaderdag

3 reason’s to wear a seatbelt…

Today I am helping my kids school to reward people for wearing a seatbelt. When my kids take their seatbelt of while driving, I pull over. These days they tell me when I forget to buckle them up. For their safety and mine.

Update: [...]

Mega-Cindy

Na Peter van de Veire zijn stunt als Mega-Cindy zing ik af en toe van MegaCindy als Joppe en Bent aan het dansen zijn op MegaMindy.
Gisteren begon Joppe spontaan te zingen:
Ik ben MegaCindy.
Ze laat alle boeven vrij
met een pak friet met stoverij

Dit is het stukje van Peter VanDeVeire
Zie ik een vliegtuig,
zie [...]

Safety @ home: 6 month old Geike fell of the kitchen table

I’m checking in,
I’m MAD, SAD, AFRAID: Geike fell from the kitchen table on the floor yesterday.I’m MAD,SAD it was my faultI’m GLAD it was not the boys faultI’m AFRAID she fell on her headI’m SAD, AFRAID I don’t know on what she fell.I’m GLAD she had eaten 3/4 of her meal and did not throw [...]

Our first family meeting with a 5 year and a 3 year old.

As you can see in our family’s newyears video, breakfast at our place is always a “heroes happen here” event.
When my partner has breakfast with the kids alone: it works fine.
When I have breakfast with them it is ok too. The challenges start when we are both there.
We tend to have both our own way [...]

Geike: Het lachende loeder

Voorpagina van boekje voor dit event.
Dit boekje was het vervolg op het eerste boekje.
Technorati Tags: Geike Hanoulle,Het lachend loeder,Doopsel

Doop Geike

Tergelegenheid van Geike’s doop en de publicatie van “Het Lachende Loeder”
PRENDRE UN ENFANT

paroles et musique: Yves DuteilPrendre un enfant par la mainPour l’emmener vers demainPour lui donner la confiance en son pasPrendre un enfant pour un roiPrendre un enfant dans ses brasEt pour la première foisSécher ses larmes en étouffant de [...]

5 conditions for effective punishments

The punishment has to be relative intense.The subject should feel it as a punishment)
It has to be giving promptly. This is one of the problems with the current law system. There is too much time between the crime  and the punishment.The person has to feel that it is related. Even when he/she knows it is [...]

Positive and negative ratification/punishment

 

 
Consequence = adding a stimulus
Consequence = remove a stimulus

Behaviorincreases
positive ratification
Behavior is followed by adding a pleasant stimulus
negative ratification
Behavior is followed by removing an unpleasant stimulus

Behaviordecreases
Positive punishment
Behavior is followed by adding an unpleasant stimulus (Disapproving looks, shouting…)
Negative punishment
Behavior is followed by removing a pleasant stimulus (Ex Time-out)

 
Punishment in this blog post is not the same as [...]

Shaping by means of successive approach

In most cases behavior what we want to learn to people (or pets) , is seldom behavior that spontaneously would appear. In that case it would be impossible to ratify when it occurs.
So what is a parent, team leader to do?
Well you can build the training in little steps.
Let’s look at how circus tamers do [...]

Giving positive feedback works best if you give it irregular…

I believe in giving positive feedback. While doing research for a big post that explains how to use these positive educational techniques with your (agile) team, I encountered this scientific fact:
Giving constant positive feedback works less good as positive feedback given at variable ratio or with a variable interval.
In fact people that are giving constant [...]