Leveraging a Growth Mindset for Personal, Team, and Organizational Success
Fostering Agility, Innovation, and Performance for Lasting Impact
Our view of the skills and capabilities we possess has a tremendous impact on our performance, happiness, and ability to learn. By believing in our potential for personal and professional growth, and pursuing each through communication, collaboration, innovation, and openly addressing challenges and stumbling blocks, we create new opportunities to grow and develop. This one-day workshop will focus on the principles of growth mindset, using the research of Carol Dweck and her colleagues as a foundation. This interactive program is designed to help you embrace challenges as opportunities, to be more resilient in the face of adversity, to pursue your goals with reckless abandon, and to help others do so as well. We will focus on your own development of a growth mindset as well as ways to influence your workplace and team to adopt this way of thinking.
The program will be highly interactive, focusing not only on understanding growth mindset and related concepts, but on exercises and discussions to actively develop these skillsets. You will apply program learnings to your real-world environment in consultation with other like-minded participants, as well as develop a personal action plan to take you forward.
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Key Learnings
Additional Information
This program is designed for professionals who wish to develop their understanding of and ability to pursue continuous growth and encourage and lead others to do so as well. Organizational leaders who wish to develop this mindset in their team members will also benefit from the learnings in this program. If you find yourself driven by challenge, excited about learning, and seeking opportunities to advance success in your personal and professional life, this program will provide concrete tools and methodologies for advancing your growth mindset.
Sample Schedule: 8:30am- 4:00pm
- 8:00– 8:20 Continental Breakfast
- 8:20 – 8:30 Introductions and program overview
- 8:30 – 10:15 Session 1 – Growth Mindset Foundations
- Growth vs. Fixed mindset – tools to move from fixed to growth
- Risk-taking and learning from mistakes
- Developing emotional intelligence and resilience
- 10:15 – 10:30 Break
- 10:30 – 12:00 Session 2 – Growth Mindset in Your Professional Life
- Creating personal and organizational growth goals
- Techniques for embedding growth mindset practices into daily routines
- Tools for development and self-efficacy
- 12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
- 12:45 – 2:15 Session 3 –  Role Modeling Growth Mindset
- How you can model a growth mindset for others
- Encouraging innovation, feedback, and collaboration
- Coaching, collaborating, and mentoring with a growth mindset approach
- 2:15 – 2:30 Break
- 2:30 – 4:00 Session 4 – Leading with a Growth Mindset
- Building a culture of continuous learning and improvement
- How growth mindset drives talent retention and performance
- Strategies for managers to foster a growth mindset in others
- 4:00 – 4:15 Review and group discussion
Course materials are included in the cost of tuition. Course materials will be provided in paper format during the class.
Program Cancellation
This course is offered contingent upon sufficient enrollment. If a course must be cancelled, all registered participants will be notified at least five (5) calendar days before the course’s start date. All registered participants will receive a 100% tuition refund. No fees will be charged for cancelled courses.
Individual Cancellation – Refund Policy
Prospective participants who withdraw at least 10 days prior to the start of a course will receive a full refund of tuition paid.
For more information, or to speak with a program adviser, please send an email to executivewake@wfu.edu.
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