1. Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: Changing from Fixed to Growth
Presented by Sonya L. Weiland, PHR

2. Introduction Sonya L. Weiland, PHR HR Consultant Trainer Speaker
President, WeilandWorks Consulting
Founder, Your Partner In HR

3. Objectives Define Mindfulness, Manifestation and Mindset
Understand the difference between Fixed and Growth Mindset
Share people who are living Examples of Grit and Growth Mindset
Discuss Strategies for embracing a Growth Mindset
In a large research study on human capital trends, 65-75% of leaders of organizations identified an issue called the ‘overwhelmed employee’. Leaders agreed this was a critical issue but they said they didn’t know what to do about it. Mobile phones, , text, global teams, conference calls, social media, and our watches talking to us, there is so much stuff coming at us, we are constantly flooded and can’t get our work done, and we feel less productive than we were in the past.
Forward thinking companies are recognizing the need to simplify the work environment and company. The key to work really hard to declutter work. Stop sending so many s. Reduce the number of things we ask people to do. Simplify the technologies we have. You can’t just layer more stuff onto people. GE is a good example of this with its new strategy GE Simplification which involves delayering the company.
Josh said while most companies evaluate employees on hitting their goals, GE decided: that's not our priority. We need to focus on teaching people how to do LESS and do a better job on fewer things. They created a whole program to simplify an overwhelming workplace. They also educed the number of HR functions and outsources service centers.
Some companies have shut off s after hours and encouraged leaders not to read or respond on nights or weekends. At Deloitte, if you’re on PTO or vacation, they are instructed not to respond to s. It is setting a bad example as a leader.

4. What is Mindfulness?
Definition: a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts without judgement

5. What is Mindfulness? How can we be more “Mindful?” Have you ever…
Walked into a room and not remember why you went there?
Realized that halfway through a conversation, you weren’t listening?
Run or drove somewhere and not remember the route you took?
Tried to sleep but your mind is on a million things?
How can we be more “Mindful?”
Meditation, visualization, etc.

6. What is Mindset?
Definition: the established set of attitudes held by someone

7. Two Types
Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset
“…people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success— without effort.”
“…people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.”

8. The Expert
PhD from Yale.
Taught at Columbia Univ. and Harvard before joining team at Stanford
Claim to fame – Growth Mindset Theory.
Lots of great information – videos on You Tube – recent program she did for Google this year.
“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.” -Carol Dweck, Ph.D.

9. Fixed vs. Growth Mindset Beliefs
Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset
Intelligence is fixed
Personality is fixed
Born with it
Unchangeable
Intelligence malleable
Personality malleable
Traits can change and be developed
Can achieve anything with effort
Pushes you to do more…

10. The Differences Sound Like…
Fixed mind-set:
Growth mind-set:
You're so smart.
You’re wrong.
l like how you used different strategies to figure out these problems.
That didn’t work out for you. How could you approach the problem differently?

12. How? Do you Change Fixed to Growth Mindset?

13. First Steps: Self-evaluate Stay focused Avoid distractions
What do I want?
Am I satisfied? Be grateful.
What hurdles to I have?
Stay focused
Avoid distractions
Set guidelines
Physical space
People/co-workers
Take action
Keeps you from the ‘urgency’ to complete a task or reach higher

14. Changing from a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset
Learn to hear your fixed mindset ‘voice.’ Accept your limits. Embrace criticism.
2) Recognize that you have a choice. Don’t attempt to please everyone, all the time, in the same ways…
3) Talk back to it with a growth mindset voice. “I get to do this…” or “I offer the most value by working on…”
4) Take the growth mindset action. One step at a time. Activity gets results. Never stop learning and growing.

15. One Method to Improve Mindset
Visualization:
Visualize yourself working
From the beginning
Focus on a small task
Visualize the entire process
Visualize yourself at the goal
What is one goal you have?
Share.

16. What is Manifest?
Definition: display or show (a quality or feeling) by one's acts or appearance; demonstrate.
Can we manifest our own reality?
Where our attention goes, results flow
We bring about what we dream about
Angela Duckworth –
Attended Harvard and Oxford and watched how some students succeeded while others dropped out.
She wondered about the difference between these students since many who make it to Harvard and Oxford have high IQ’s, money, and many other advantages that help to get them there. (She also studied national spelling bee contestants and cadets at West Point.) Over and over, she found that IQ was not the most important indicator of success and neither were the grades earned in school. The most important factor was grit.
Grit is the passion and perseverance for long term goals. It is the stamina. It is sticking with your future plans day by day, month by month and year by year.
As a teacher of middle school Math (7th grade) She uncovered the measure of IQ was not the indicator of how they were doing in school and thought what if this reflects to life as well. What if it depends much more on whether or not you learn quickly and easily. So, she quit went back to school.
Studied kids and adults – who is successful and why?
Westpoint academy – who will drop out
National study bee – who will win?
Partnered w/private companies across the country – areas such as sales – who will be the best at their job?
1 character kept seeing.
Not social intelligence
Not good looks
Not physical health
Not IQ
It was GRIT.

17. What is Grit?
Angela Duckworth –
Attended Harvard and Oxford and watched how some students succeeded while others dropped out.
She wondered about the difference between these students since many who make it to Harvard and Oxford have high IQ’s, money, and many other advantages that help to get them there. (She also studied national spelling bee contestants and cadets at West Point.) Over and over, she found that IQ was not the most important indicator of success and neither were the grades earned in school. The most important factor was grit.
Grit is the passion and perseverance for long term goals. It is the stamina. It is sticking with your future plans day by day, month by month and year by year.
As a teacher of middle school Math (7th grade) She uncovered the measure of IQ was not the indicator of how they were doing in school and thought what if this reflects to life as well. What if it depends much more on whether or not you learn quickly and easily. So, she quit went back to school.
Studied kids and adults – who is successful and why?
Westpoint academy – who will drop out
National study bee – who will win?
Partnered w/private companies across the country – areas such as sales – who will be the best at their job?
1 character kept seeing.
Not social intelligence
Not good looks
Not physical health
Not IQ
It was GRIT.
“Grit is living life like it is a marathon NOT a sprint.”
- Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

18. Definition: What is Grit?
“A passionate commitment to a single mission and an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission”—Angela Duckworth
Persistence
Resilience
Curiosity
Conscientiousness
Self-confidence
Self-control

19. Famous Failures Things don’t always work out the way we want.
What matters is what you do when you FAIL.

20. Guess Who?
After being cut from his high school basketball team, this famous failure went home, locked himself in his room and cried.

21. Michael Jordan “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots.
I’ve lost 300 games. Trusted to take the game winning shot and missed…
I’ve failed over and over and over… and that is why I succeed.

22. Guess Who?
Before she wrote this book series, she was nearly penniless, divorced, severely depressed, and trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel. The first nine publishers rejected her book before a small business man accepted it.

23. JK Rowling

24. Guess Who?
Was once fired from a newspaper for “lacking imagination” and having “no original ideas”

25. Walt Disney

26. Guess Who?
She was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she “wasn’t fit for television”.

28. Where Have You Seen Grit?
Everyday people exhibit Grit. Who do you think of? Why?
What qualities/competencies do you see in that person?
List on page 3.
Share.

29. Where Have You Seen Grit?
Did we mention the ones discussed earlier?
Persistence
Resilience
Curiosity
Conscientiousness
Self-confidence
Self-control

30. Birmingham College Student Walked 20 miles…
New employee, Walter Carr
Homewood to Pelham
Bellhops Moving Company
CEO, Luke Marklin
The comeback is always stronger than the setback.
July 16, 2018

31. The Comeback is Stronger than the Setback.
In Mindset, Dweck writes:
“The other thing exceptional people seem to have is a special talent for converting life’s setbacks into future successes.
Creativity researchers concur. In a poll of 143 creativity researchers, there was wide agreement about the number one ingredient in creative achievement.
And it was exactly the kind of perseverance and resilience produced by the growth mindset.”

32. Strategies to Embrace a Growth Mindset
Be mindful in what you set out to do.
Take time to self reflect and be grateful for what you have, aware of your limits and open to opportunities.
Set and commit to goals that are specific, manageable, and important to you.
Practice a Growth Mindset, using deliberate practice.
Manifest what you visualize and you will create your own reality.
Be Gritty! Keep your goals front & center and achieve them!
As you know, to be gritty you need both motivation (mind-set) and volition (behavior) – the formula for grit. While being motivated to gritty is important, if motivation is not accompanied by a change in behavior, you will not get the results you want. For example, it is not enough to be motivated to be a great guitar player, you need to pick up the instrument and practice! It is not enough to think how great you would feel if you were less worried; you need to behave in ways that lessen your anxiety.

33. Take it Back!
Thank You!
Sonya L. Weiland, PHR