mindset for trainers and managers understanding the power of changing the mindset of trainees and...
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Mindset for Trainers and Managers
Understanding the Power of Changing the Mindset of Trainees and Staff
Overview
What is a Mindset? 2 Mindsets
Why do I care?
Performance and
learning goals
Changing your
mindset
Concluding thoughts
Objectives for today1. At the conclusion of the training, learners will
be able to categorize the various traits associated with the fixed and growth mindset.
2. After this training, learners will know the difference between performance and learning goals, with the ability to create an example of each type of goals with 100% accuracy.
3. Using desk aides and the training, learners will list the four steps to changing their mindset.
4. Learners will formulate ideas on how to apply the growth mindset and develop concrete plans to implement those ideas.
Icebreaker
Share one of your biggest successes
What is a Mindset?
What is a Mindset?
A mental attitude or inclinationA fixed state of mindA particular way of thinking: a person’s attitude or set of opinions about something (mind-set)
What is a Mindset
The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life
You have a choice, a mindset is just your belief
Class Poll
An assessment at one point in time gives a complete
picture of someone’s ability
through their entire life and
their potential to succeed in the
future.
TRUE
FALSE
Introducing the Two Mindsets
Fixed Mindset versus Growth Mindset
Fixed Mindset You are born with everything that you’ll ever
know and all that you’ll ever be able to achieve “If at first you don’t succeed….” Ability needs to be proven Success is the goal & the focus is on the
outcome Failure is catastrophic and it defines you Success is about being more gifted than others;
failure does measure you and effort is for those who can’t make it on talent
Growth Mindset Basic qualities are things you can cultivate
through your efforts Passion & success are about stretching
yourself Ability can be changed through learning Failure can be painful but it doesn’t define you Focus is on development- everyone can
change and grow through application and experience
Setbacks are motivating because they are informative and a wake-up call
Why Mindset is Important to You!
Why You Should Care about the Mindsets as a Trainer or Manager
Why do I Care Personally?
You have a choice in your mindset
It is all about the mindset that you bring to the challenge
Why Do I Care in My Job?
Messages can promote the growth mindset
Priority on learning, not success and failure
Reinforce the value of hard work, learning and challenges
Normalize the situation Humanize the problem Vulnerability in feedback Normalize discomfort
Normalizing Discomfort If you want real learning, you need to normalize
discomfort. Simply and honestly share with people that
growth and failure are normal and that they are to happen, why it happens and what's important.
Cultivate the courage to be uncomfortable and teach staff how to accept discomfort as a part of growth
Why Do I Care in My Job? Problems arise when:
Trainees/staff equate their grades/scores with their intelligence or their worth
Trainees/staff don’t have the truth on how they’re doing
Message that assessments & evaluations are point in time Create new strategies Provide them with the
skills and resources that will put them in charge of their own learning
Lay out a plan of attack to help them catch up
Strategies to Embrace the Growth Mindset Guided mistakes “Failure” = opportunity “Explanatory style” Believing in oneself Change the perception of themselves
and their work Positive payoff for effort
Examples of Discussion Questions
What are they good at outside of work and how did they get good at it?
What is a success from your childhood? What about as an adult?
What do you say to your child(ren) when they receive a bad grade in school?
Primed for Success
Pygmalion Effect Superman’s Cape Goal Setting
Adversarial Growth
Path “up” Positive
reinterpretation of the situation or event
Optimism How do you define
yourself?
Performance and Learning Goals
Performance versus Learning Goals
Performance goal= Obtain an “A” in French class
Learning goal= Learn to speak French fluently
Performance AND Learning Goals
Value grades but see them as merely an index of your
current performance, not as a sign of your intelligence or
worth
Value learning and challenge
Changing Your Mindset
Steps in Changing Your Mindset
1.Learn to hear your fixed mindset “voice”
2.Recognize that you have a choice
3.Talk back to your fixed mindset “voice” with a growth mindset “voice”
4.Take the growth mindset action
Moving the Mindset Lever “The more we move our fulcrum (mindset), the
more our lever lengthens and so the more power we generate. Move the fulcrum so that all the advantage goes to a negative mindset, and we never rise off the ground. Move the fulcrum to a positive mindset, and the lever’s power is magnified- ready to move everything up.”
Special Theory of Relatively
Managing Self-Talk
Self-kindness: being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail or feel inadequate
Talk to yourself the way you would talk to someone you really love and whom you’re trying to comfort in the midst of a meltdown
Workplace Applications
Workplace Application Think of someone at work with whom you can
train on the growth mindset. How might you train them? What strategies might you use when working with them as they experience challenges?
Questions to Ponder What have you learned about the two mindsets
and about strategies you can apply when working with your staff?
What insights do you have about your own mindset?
Have you ever applied any of the strategies to your own learning and experiences? Have you used any of them with your staff?
What have you noticed about your reactions and thoughts when working with staff as they are learning or experiencing challenges?
How might this information be useful to you?
Concluding Thoughts
“Ultimately, we all have to decide for
ourselves what constitutes failure. But
the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.”
Resources The Happiness Advantage by Sean Achor Daring Greatly by Brene Brown Mindset, the New Psychology of Success by
Carolyn Dweck The Master Shift (Facebook) The Letters of Gratitude (Facebook) Positive Outlooks (Facebook) Positive Pix (Facebook)
Concluding Thought
Sources Achor, S. (2010). The Happiness Advantage. New York:
Crown Business Bannik, F. (2010). 1,001 Solution-Focused questions. New
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Success. New York: Random House Hopkins, G. (2004, August 10). How Can Teachers Develop
Students’ Motivation– and Success? Education World. Retrieved from http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat010.shtml
Popova, M. (2014). Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets that Shape our Lives. Retrieved from http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/
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