1. NCFE Level 1 Award in Employability Skills (601/4680/1)
Understanding Mindset

2. Understanding Mindset
What is mindset?
It is a person’s particular way of thinking.

3. Understanding Mindset
What mindset have you got? Take the quiz and find out.
Strong Growth Mindset = 45 – 60 points
Growth Mindset with some Fixed ideas = 34 – 44 points
Fixed Mindset with some Growth ideas = 21 – 33 points
Strong Fixed Mindset = 0 – 20 points

4. Understanding Mindset
Fixed mindset
Those in a fixed mindset believe you either are or aren’t good at something, based on your inherent nature, because it’s just who you are.
Growth mindset
Those in a growth mindset believe anyone can be good at anything, because your abilities are entirely due to your actions.
The fixed mindset is the most common and harmful … why?

5. Understanding Mindset
What is the difference between a quality, an attribute and a skill?
Quality is inherent (existing in someone as a permanent and inseparable element)
Attribute is gained
Skill is learned

6. Understanding Mindset
List mindset qualities that you think are attractive to employers.
Honesty reliability trust commitment adaptability
Kind helpful generous responsible considerate
Confident positive motivated sensible mature
Thoughtful actions results beliefs

7. Understanding Mindset
Those with a Positive Mindset Cycle:
Have a desire to do or learn something new
Inspired by others’ success
Embrace challenge
Persist despite obstacles
Learn from criticism
Effort leads to mastery, desired results achieved
Success builds confidence & self-belief

8. Understanding Mindset
Research carried out by REED recruitment agency in revealed that 97% of employers would choose to hire someone with the right mindset even though they lack the complete skill-set.
Why do you think this is?
Accountable flexible determined
Loyal contributor relationship builder
Conscientious thoughtful actions
Results beliefs

9. Understanding Mindset
However those with a Negative Mindset Cycle:
Indecisive
Want to look smart
Give up easily due to obstacles
Do not achieve
See trying/effort as fruitless
Ignore useful feedback
Threatened by others’ success

10. Understanding Mindset
How might a negative mindset affect your job prospects?
In the research carried out by REED 100% of employers ranked honesty and trustworthiness in first place, marking them as essential or desirable. Not a single employer said that these qualities were not important and more than 90% said they were essential.
The qualities are:
Honesty trustworthy committed
Adaptable accountable flexible
Determined loyalty relationship builder
Contributor

11. Understanding Mindset
You must be able to demonstrate your qualities to a potential employer – your employability quality.
Your mindset or skillset can be clearly demonstrated through a mixture of actions or words
A skillset is all the different skills that are needed to do a particular job

12. Understanding Mindset
Each group has one quality on their flipchart paper.
Discuss in your group and write down a description of this quality. Use examples if it helps. Why is this a key quality to employers?
The same task will be completed for each quality.
Honesty
Commitment
Flexibility
Accountability