What is a mindset?
A mindset is a set of assumptions, methods, or notions held by one or more people.
A mindset can color the way we see the world, shape our emotions, and define specific actions. A mindset can impact the way we think, feel and act inside an environment; hence impacting our leadership styles.
What are prerequisites for inspiring a new mindset in others?
Acknowledging our own dominant mindsets.
Helping people reflect on their values and legacy.
Testing new mindsets to experience different ways of being.
What happens when we are in a control mindset?
When we carry a control mindset we tend to avoid emotions, which results in shrinkage of our engagement capacity.
What four steps necessary to reflect on action?
- Think back about the situation
- Consider your emotional state at the time
- Make sense of the situation
- Finally, decide on action
There are 4 critical steps to developing focus for our reflection-on-action. They include: thinking over the situation, understanding our emotional state at the time, making sense of action/reaction cycles and learning from the experience to define new and productive actions.
When in scarcity mindset, what do we most often focus on?
When we carry a scarcity mindset, we focus on what’s lacking in the environment. Sometimes this is resources, other times, it is opportunity, monetary rewards or recognition.
How does welfare relate to well being?
Welfare is recorded as only one of the conditions necessary to drive well being and equity inside organizations.
How does a well-being mindset drive higher equity across the organization?
When a leader acknowledges all aspects required for one’s state of thriving, they become relationally more attentive towards everyone’s unique needs. Research validates such focus indeed drives better inclusion and a feeling of equity amongst peers.
How can you shift from a defensive to productive mindset?
When a leader is looking to shift to a productive mindset, it would be good to check in on their judgment process, exercise wonder, engage in conflict and most importantly, praise people for their contribution.
How does one’s interconnectedness to self and environment raise one’s level of conscious at work?
When we feel connected our well being gets lifted and our mental capacity to engage in and detect outcomes of synthesis, emergence and causality enlarges.
What is one of the four ‘must haves’ to develop a collective mindset in the workplace?
Developing shared measurements is key to developing a collective mindset.
A growth mindset does not trigger heightened fear of making mistakes. A growth mindset actually triggers a *decreased* sense of fear.