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Developing a Growth Mindset

Published by Pearson

Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate

Five key strategies to cultivate resilience, adaptability, and continuous improvement

  • Discover how to view obstacles and challenges as an opportunity for learning and career development
  • Bring a proactive, problem-solving approach to your work and increase your value to current and future employers
  • Learn from actors role-playing scenarios to illustrate the five strategies needed to develop a growth mindset

This dynamic course is designed to introduce you to the concept of a growth mindset—a fundamental belief that talents can be developed through hard work, good strategies, and input from others. Research has shown that individuals with a growth mindset tend to be more resilient, persistent, and motivated, while those with a fixed mindset believe that their abilities are innate and cannot be changed. Practical, evidence-based strategies help individuals embrace and transform challenges into opportunities for growth, fostering resilience and adaptability in both personal and professional realms.

Join Debra Stevens and two business actors in this highly interactive and experiential course that uses a combination of role-playing, discussions, and demos to deliver practical strategies to deal with your blocks to learning, see obstacles as opportunities, and give you the confidence to step outside your comfort zone. Scenarios bring to life the differences between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Learn how to avoid focusing on your shortcomings and see them instead as learning opportunities.

Career Success Series

The Career Success Series from Pearson addresses essential skills for your personal and professional development in the areas of communication, presentation, critical thinking, teamwork, leadership, problem solving, and resilience. These skills are critical for any industry, any job title, and any career stage – whether you’re just starting out or have been in the workforce for years. Expert trainers deliver practical tools and techniques you can use to enhance your resume, excel in your career, or simply enrich your life skills.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Identify characteristics of fixed and growth mindsets and understand their impact on personal and professional development
  • Implement strategies to cultivate a growth mindset, enhancing resilience and adaptability
  • Apply growth mindset principles to personal and professional challenges, turning obstacles into opportunities for growth
  • Create an action plan for fostering a culture of growth and continuous improvement in teams and organizations

This live event is for you because...

  • You are seeking to cultivate a mindset that embraces growth, resilience, and adaptability, applicable across all professions and stages of life
  • You want to transform how you approach challenges and setbacks, turning them into opportunities for personal and professional development
  • You are an educator, leader, HR professional, or individual in any field looking to enhance your effectiveness and foster an environment of continuous improvement and learning

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge or experience is required, but please bring:

  • An open mind and willingness to explore and challenge one’s own attitudes and beliefs about learning and intelligence
  • A readiness to engage in interactive exercises and reflect on personal experiences related to mindset

Recommended Preparation

  • Read: Part 1, Stand Out by Debra Stevens

Recommended Follow-up

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Segment 1: Why You Should Care about Your Mindset (10 minutes)

  • The importance of a growth mindset
  • Three key takeaways
  • How this course will work
  • How to interact and engage with the exercises

Segment 2: Characteristics of Fixed and Growth Mindsets (45 mins)

  • What do growth and fixed mindsets look like?
  • Scenario: Demonstrating the two types of mindsets by the actors and analysis
  • Understanding the impact of mindsets
  • Exercise: Self-assessment of your mindset
  • Introduction to the 5 key areas to focus on when cultivating a growth mindset
  • Q&A

Break (5 minutes)

Segment 3: Key 1 — Identifying, Challenging, and Changing Unhelpful Thinking to Focus on Opportunities (30 minutes)

  • Exercise: The impact of unhelpful thinking game
  • The unconscious prover brain – be aware of what you are focusing on
  • Challenging unhelpful thinking – catch it, check it, change it
  • Q&A

Segment 4: Keys 2 and 3 — Turning Setbacks, Challenges, and Negative Feedback into Opportunities for Growth (30 minutes)

  • Understanding your response to setbacks mistakes and challenges
  • Role-Play Activity: Reacting to feedback
  • Coaching the inner critic
  • Q&A

Break (5 minutes)

Segment 5: Keys 4 and 5 — Purposeful Practice and Learning Goals (35 minutes)

  • Scenario: The power of "not yet!”
  • Exercise: Setting growth/learning-oriented SMARTER goals
  • 7 ways to build your resilience – at work and in life
  • Q&A

Segment 6: Creating an Action Plan to Foster a Culture of Growth and Continuous Improvement (20 minutes)

  • Three steps to take immediately
  • Creating a personal action plan
  • Resources for continued learning
  • Final Q&A and feedback

Your Instructor

  • Debra Stevens

    Debra Stevens, trainer, coach, inspiring speaker, and founder of Debra Stevens Training and Coaching, has been running award-winning experiential workshops on conscious human skills for more than 26 years. Her training and speaking have taken her all over the world. She has worked with thousands of people at all levels in companies such as Coca-Cola, Network Rail, Santander, Stena Line, and Hovis, improving their human skills and helping them to be more successful leaders, salespeople, customer service operatives, business owners, parents, friends, and partners. She is the author of Stand Out.