Nurturing Growth Mindset | Leadership Development Program - FocusU
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Nurturing Growth Mindset

The Power of Yet

What is a growth mindset?

In the words of Carol Dweck, the scholar and author who came up with the concept: “Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. They tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts). This is because they worry less about looking smart and they put more energy into learning. When entire companies embrace a growth mindset, their employees report feeling far more empowered and committed; they also receive far greater organizational support for collaboration and innovation. In contrast, people at primarily fixed-mindset companies report more of only one thing: cheating and deception among employees, presumably to gain an advantage in the talent race.”

The concept of “Growth mindset” has captured the imagination of the corporate world, in large parts due to the attention brought to it by Microsoft. Four years ago, Satya Nadella took the helm at Microsoft. Under his leadership, the value of the company has tripled. The story of the culture and strategy refresh at Microsoft – is one inspired by Stanford professor Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindset. Under Nadella, the focus shifted from “Know it all to learn it all.”

How can teams adopt this remarkable mindset?

As Benjamin Franklin had famously said, “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I learn. Involve me and I remember.” Hence the best way to bring a concept like this to life is to get participants involved and engaged through Experiential activities from the FocusU stable. The experience is then debriefed to make the concept come alive through the actual behaviors of the participants in the different activities.

A few targeted learning outcomes through this workshop are:
1) An appreciation of what “Growth mindset” is – as against “Fixed mindset”
2) Learning to identify fixed and growth mindset language
3) Responding to people when you hear fixed mindset language
4) Changing fixed or ambiguous statements into growth mindset statements
5) Appreciating that we all carry both fixed and growth mindsets about different abilities / traits & skills.
6) Modelling the way for others through scripting a personal story about how having a growth mindset helped you accomplish something challenging


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A few key parameters:

0.5day – 1 days

Time Limit

Indoor

Where this can be run

Upto 30

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Will be done

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Is this workshop right for your team?

Since 2010 Dweck and three colleagues—Mary Murphy, Jennifer Chatman, and Laura Kray—have been exploring the effect of a growth mindset on organizations and their employees. The researchers conducted surveys to try to understand how the prevailing organizational mindset influenced workers’ satisfaction, perceptions of the organizational culture, levels of collaboration, innovation, and ethical behavior.

What they learned is that employees at companies with a fixed mindset often said that just a small handful of “star” workers were highly valued. The employees who reported this were less committed than employees at growth-mindset companies and didn’t think the company had their back. They worried about failing and so pursued fewer innovative projects. They regularly kept secrets, cut corners, and cheated to try to get ahead.

If you are keen on introducing your team to this powerful new concept, FocusU invites you to take the Nurturing Growth Mindset workshop!

Contact Us today – we will be glad to meet up and discuss the possibilities for your team!

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  • 30th October 2018 was a day full of learning and experience with the FocusU Team. This was the first session conducted for our Leadership team where we learnt the concept of Growth Mindset & Accountability. As a People’s company, everyone knows and understands the concept, however the kind of activities and experiential learning programmed by the FocusU team added an element of excitement and gave us enough room to think and play around it.

    As one of the prime takeaways, we learnt the principle of See it, Own it, Solve it and Do it. Great effort was put into make the overall session very logical coupled with the de-briefs after summing up each activity.The session got wrapped up with a team picture and a short video of the experiences captured by the team in a nutshell. The TrueBlue India LLP team wishes you all the best for the future inventions in the Learning and evolving world of success.

    Divya Chauhan
    L&D Partner, TrueBlue India LLP