Improve as a Parent and Leader with a Growth Mindset

 

We use this phrase, “force for good,” to describe people like you who are impressively competent and accomplished, committed to diversity and inclusion, and humble enough to be curious about our biases and other blessings and foibles of being human. In addition to building up and building community for LeaderMoms, one of our goals is to raise the profiles and best practices of “forces for good.”  

So meet a true force for good, our friend Rob Fazio, PhD, and, by extension, the game-changing work of Carol Dweck, PhD from Stanford. 

We chose Rob to be on of our first guests in our Members-Only Fast Skills Series because he demonstrates mastery of the content related to a growth mindset, and because he conveys those skills in digestible micro-teachings so we can learn and practice to improve as leaders and parents. We admire his committed goal pursuit and achievement, the value he adds to clients, his disciplined practice to cultivate his expertise and more. And we admire his way in the world – that is, how all of that mojo is magnified by his self-effacing humor and humility, how he normalizes messing up, and how actively curious he is about what he doesn’t know yet. Because he does not assume his experiences are generalizable to women, he is all the more able to learn and become an even stronger force for good.   

In our latest Fast Skills video, we talk about how having a ‘growth mindset’ versus a ‘fixed mindset’ sets you up for success as both a parent and a leader. A growth mindset allows you to embraces life’s loops and as Rob puts it, “can help you accomplish more, if you realize success is not a straight path.”

Try this exercise to practice a growth mindset in your daily life:

Once a day for the next 3-4 weeks, take 2 minutes at a set time in your schedule to give positive feedback to team members or family members when they…

  • Embrace challenges

  • Persist in the face of obstacles

  • Think of effort as the path to mastery

  • Demonstrate openness to feedback and are willing to reflect and be influenced by others’ views.

  • Find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.

To watch Rob’s video and see the other exercises from this skill-building series, head over to Membership to join today.

Thanks for being with us as we set and pursue goals, and learn and grow on this often serpentine path to a more sustainable, more fulfilling, more inclusion version of leadership and success.  

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PS: Check out Rob’s book Simple is the New Smart on Amazon.

 
Kaitlin Hershey