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What’s the essential sports mindset to meet your athletic potential? What sports mindset do the greatest athletes have in common? We’ll cover the growth mindset as it pertains to sports and explore how your sports mindset is often just as important, if not more important, than talent when it comes to being an exceptional athlete.
What makes a business successful? How can you turn a good business into a great one? In the process of analyzing and coding the various facets of the good-to-great companies and their comparisons, Jim Collins and his team were clued into key concepts by a number of surprising differences. Learn what makes a business successful, from Good to Great.
As parents, we want to praise our kids, but is praising children doing more harm than good? We’ll cover the negative consequences of praising children and discuss how to praise a child in a way that encourages a growth mindset rather than a fixed one.
What are the keys to effective employee management? How do you ensure that your team is professional and disciplined while also being creative and innovative? We’ll cover the most powerful tools of employee management to help you revolutionize your company, from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great.
What business mindsets do the greatest leaders have in common? How does the right mindset help you succeed in business, and what can the most successful people teach you about adopting the right business mindset? We’ll cover the business mindset of exceptional leaders such as Jack Welch and Lou Gerstner and explore how your personal business mindset leads to success for your entire company. This is the growth mindset for business.
What is the “crawl-walk-run” approach to business? Why is it especially important to take this approach when it comes to technology? Good-to-great companies engage with groundbreaking technologies in a very specific way: Rather than bet the house on the technology itself, they think deeply about how the technology can serve the company’s Hedgehog Concept. A good rule of thumb is to follow the “crawl, walk, run” approach—slow down and think about how a technology can help you realize your Hedgehog Concept, then move carefully toward a strategy. Once the strategy is in place and chugging along, however, don’t be afraid
What is the success mindset? How does the way you define success affect how successful you are? We’ll cover the elements of the success mindset and look at examples of the success mindset in school, sports, business, and relationships.
What are the keys to building a successful team? Why should building a great team be the first thing you do when you’re starting or revamping a business? We’ll cover how to build a successful team and why it may be the most important thing you do for your company.
Are you a fox or a hedgehog? If you manage a business, you probably want to be a hedgehog (or at least act like one). People can be divided into foxes and hedgehogs: Foxes know many things and engage with a complex world on its own terms; hedgehogs know one big thing and subsume the world’s complexity to a single, simple, unifying idea. We’ll cover why hedgehogs make the best leaders, how to act like a hedgehog if it doesn’t come naturally to you, and how to answer the question, Are you a fox or a hedgehog?
You know that your students need to have a growth mindset. But do you know how to instill a growth mindset in your students? And what about your own? How does your mindset as a teacher affect your students? A growth mindset for teachers is imperative for student achievement and mental health. We’ll cover the theory behind Carol Dweck’s growth mindset for teachers and discuss ways to inculcate a growth mindset in your students and yourself. Learn why teachers’ mindsets matter.