Leading from a growth mindset

Thursday 26th April 2018, 11.00-13.00 in room 4.10, 35 Berkeley Square with Rich Cook, Founder and Director of Mindset Practice

About the masterclass

This masterclass explores how to lead from a mindset of "Growth" rather than "Survival" and create a climate of sustained growth, collaboration and learning in your teams. It builds on the work of Professor Carol Dweck, which shows that developing a growth mindset (being open, receptive and able to make choices to improve things) enables transformational learning and lasting change.

Objectives

This 2-hour highly interactive workshop will enable Senior Leaders to:

• Understand the difference between a Growth and Survival mindset
• Diagnose and explore how your mindset underpins how you lead using the Virtues for Growth Toolkit (three essential practices for transforming mindset)
• Review the climate you create as a leader using the Leadership Operating Climate exercise and tool
• Identify actions you can take to enable leadership from a Growth mindset and create a climate of growth in your team

Tools

• Virtues for Growth – three essential practices for transforming mindset
• Leadership Operating Climate

 

About the speaker

Rich is Founder and Director of Mindset Practice, where he coaches CEOs, Directors, senior leaders and emerging leaders in the FTSE 250 and high profile public sector organisations. He's known for being an applied Emtional Intelligence master facilitator and for revolutionary, award winning leadership development that transforms mindset and delivers sticky performance change. 

He is adept at using trust, challenge and psychological expertise to work in partnership to transform mindset and deliver accountable, practical, sustained change.

Masterclasses are aimed at:

Academic and Professional Services staff who are leading large areas of strategic or operational activity. For example, Deans, Divisional Heads, Faculty or School Managers, Heads of School, Faculty Research or Educational Directors. 

How to attend

We contact directly the staff groups listed above to invite them to book onto Masterclasses. If you are unsure if the masterclasses are applicable to you, please contact sd-leadership@bristol.ac.uk

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