The Power of Habit

The Power of Habit is an official Crucial Learning course, based on Charles Duhigg's bestseller and the latest science on habit formation, that teaches how habits work and how to build them using skill instead of willpower. Its core tool is the habit loop: cue, routine and reward.

It runs one day (8 hours) in person, three 2.5-hour virtual sessions, or 4 to 6 hours of self-paced on-demand learning. Every format includes a four-week reinforcement experience.

It is delivered in more than 20 languages, including Spanish and English, always with native trainers and participant materials in the local language.

Yes. All formats include the official Crucial Learning certificate of completion, valid for internal development plans.

Because willpower alone isn't enough: habits live in a cue-routine-reward loop. Change only the routine without touching the cue or reward and the old habit returns. The course teaches you to redesign the whole loop with method.

Yes. Individual self-mastery scales to team and organizational habits, which follow the same cue-routine-reward mechanics and can be redesigned the same way. Alcoa, for example, automated a safety routine at the organizational level with a direct impact on efficiency, productivity and revenue.

GTD organizes your tasks and commitments; the Power of Habit works one level below: the automatic behaviors you repeat without thinking. One orders what you do; the other changes how you act by default.

Stephen Covey's 7 Habits is a framework of principles and character: it proposes seven foundational habits (be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, etc.) that guide how to live and lead. It is philosophical and aspirational, working as a compass of values. The Power of Habit is about the mechanics of change, not which principles to adopt: it explains how any habit forms and breaks (the cue-routine-reward loop) and gives you a method to redesign the one you choose. Put differently: Covey tells you which habits you should have; the Power of Habit gives you the science and tools to truly install or remove them, whatever the habit. They complement each other well: define your principles with Covey, install them with the Power of Habit.

Yes, they fit well together. The Power of Habit explains the mechanics of the individual habit; Crucial Influence adds the six-sources model to sustain change at team or organizational scale.

Yes. We bring it into your organization in person or virtually, adapted to your sector and your teams' real cases, coordinated with your L&D team.

No. The course starts from scratch and works for any level of responsibility. Each participant practices with the real habits they want to change in the session.

After the training, for four weeks participants receive micro-practices, reminders and short challenges that ensure transfer to the job. It is one of the elements with the biggest impact on learning retention.