leadership: a need for developing a growth mindset
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Leadership: A Need for Developing a Growth Mindset
2017 Convene Canada Veronica Carroll MBA CFRE
What will we cover?Why does leadership matter?
Private sector studies…
Things that influence leadership
My own story & past leadership presentations
What’s the urgency for leadership
Growth vs. fixed mindset
How to develop your own growth mindset
Wrap up
Why does leadership matter?
Deloitte study results
In 2011/12 Deloitte studied investment analysts perception of the relationship between corporate leadership and performance
Interviewed 445 analysts and found that effective senior leadership can add 15% to a company’s value
This is about the perception of good leadership
Forbes study results
CEO Genome Project Results
10 year study was to identify the specific attributes that differentiate high-performing CEOs
Looked through 17,000 assessments of C-suite executives
They discovered that successful CEOs tend to demonstrate four behaviours critical to their success:
Decisiveness
The ability to engage stakeholders
Adaptability
Reliability
In summary - Research findings
The perception of good leadership adds value to an organization
Good leaders add financial value to the bottom line of an organization and great leaders add even more value to the bottom line
Leaders who focus and develop their skills of decisiveness, stakeholder engagement, adaptability and reliability increase their chances of not only succeeding in their role but in becoming a high performer
Things to consider
My own story…
• Leadership – A personal interest
• 30 years in social impact sector
• Worked at 9 non-profits – global, national, provincial and community based
• 12 transitions into new roles
• 6 organizational leadership roles
A Leadership Journey
Good leadership is essential
Organization wide impact
It makes good business sense
Leadership succession
Leaders are wanting other ways to structure work
Leadership tenure/leadership burnout
The challenge to attract and retain talent
And Time is ticking…
Exercise
Turn to the person next to you and talk about the following:
• A time when you either practiced good leadership or you saw someone else do so
• share the one or two key elements that enabled that to happen
Growth vs. Fixed
What’s your mindset?
Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can’t change very much.
You can learn new things, but you can’t really change how intelligent you are.
No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit.
You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.
*“Mindset. The New Psychology of Success.” Carol S. Dweck, Ph. D.
What is a growth mindset?
What is a fixed mindset?
How do you challenge a fixed mindset?
How do you encourage a growth mindset?
Ask yourself these questions to encourage a growth mindset:
What are the opportunities for learning and growth today? For myself? For the people around me?
As you think of opportunities, form a plan and ask:
When, where and how will I embark on my plan?
And when you succeed, don’t forget to ask yourself:
What do I have to do to maintain and continue the growth?
* Mindset, The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck, Ph. D.
To summarize…
Where to find me…
www.childrenshealthvi.org
@CarrollVcarroll
https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronicamcarroll/
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Thank you!