Bringing a Growth Mindset into Your Organization
The exciting shift to living a growth mindset involves working toward seeing challenges as learning opportunities rather than threats.
Bringing a Growth Mindset to Your Teaching
Carol Dweck, a leading researcher of the Growth Mindset concept, explains the research and the power of Growth Mindset in this Tedx talk.
Developing a Growth Mindset
Scientists are learning that our brains continue to grow, expand, build new pathways, and evolve as we experience new events – both pleasant and unpleasant. How great is that?
What’s a Growth Mindset?
People who have a growth mindset believe that all people can learn, grow and become more intelligent with time and experience.
You Didn’t Get Promoted, Now What?
Try to look at this experience as something that’s pointed you in exactly the direction of where you’d like to go!
You Got Promoted, Now What? Respect.
When you align yourself with the team by respecting where they’ve been, you gain credibility.
You Got Promoted, Now What? Curiosity.
Your ability to be curious as you start a new role can increase your impact and credibility.
What Motivates Us?
Motivation of self and others is a hot topic in business precisely because it can be quite a challenge. What motivates people over the years has changed in large part because how we work has changed. Never in the history of time have so many people held jobs where their contribution is based on their knowledge or building on the knowledge of others. Motivated employees are more successful, more committed, more upbeat, and more engaged—as are kids and community members. …
When Life Feels Dark and Heavy
One of our clients recently had a difficult month, and a dear friend and mentor sent him this writing by John McQuiston called “Each Day”. We want to share it with you, as it is an important reminder when life feels dark and heavy. Each Day At the beginning of each day, after we open our eyes to receive the light of that day, as we listen to the voices and sounds that surround us, we must resolve to treat each…
Great Questions Can Change Your Life
Last week, we wrote about Growing Your Wisdom built on the quote by Mark Twain: “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.” At the end of that post, we promised that this week we would look at how to formulate questions that create meaningful conversations. Over the course of our careers we’ve discovered, time and again, that identifying a great question can dramatically change your interaction. We’ve talked about this…