Developing a Growth Mindset
Developing a "growth mindset" is essential in developing an effective team and for leading your career. Learn how to cultivate a love of life-long learning that will enable you to mentor others, advance in your job, and help your company thrive during uncertain times. Innovation and success start with the right attitude and a mindset that sets you on the right path!
Kathy Husser
The term “growth mindset” is a term leaders and entrepreneurs use to discuss learning, success, and a way toward achieving goals. What is growth mindset and how can you improve it?
Flexible Thinking
The opposite of growth mindset is a fixed mindset. According to Gemma Leigh Roberts, life coach and psychologist, building mental agility and resilience is necessary to learn from life’s challenges. In other words, turning obstacles into learning opportunities, no matter how small, is growth mindset. This flexible way of thinking and looking at life is a growth mindset. Like any skill, growth mindset can be learned with practice.
This new perspective allows you to explore and test new ideas creating innovation and internal confidence to achieve just about anything. Whether it’s your long-term goals in your career or life, the first step is being able to stretch your thinking. Knowing you can continue to develop skills, learn new ideas, and change your perspective. This will enable you to reach your potential and create cohesive teams as a leader. The first step is to develop a plan.
Develop a Plan and Practice
To cultivate your new mindset of growth and learning, you need to practice. Practice switching your perspective to take in new experiences and draw from those lessons. Being optimistic and taking risks to discover new concepts is crucial to adapting life-long learning behaviors.
To develop a personal mindset plan you will need to:
· Be flexible in your thinking
· Stretch your current abilities for achievable goals
· Establish objectives which are measurable toward those goals
· Ask for feedback along the way
Asking for feedback is so important to realize if real growth has happened, since as human beings, we have unconscious bias.

Clear and Measurable
Being very clear in your objectives, making them quantifiable and detailed. This will provide a roadmap for your growth plan. If things don’t work out, then you must take those lessons and apply them to the next project or plan. The key to success for true evolution as a leader is taking those “disappointments” and learning from them.
Being truly resilient will lead you down a happier life path. Pivoting with the information learned is what makes us happier, healthier, and more successful the next time around. Our mindset really does matter every single day!
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Kathy Husser
Kathy Husser is an accomplished Administrator having over 25 years of experience in business management in the private and public sectors in the United States. Kathy and her team earned the 2019 nomination from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the National Medal, the highest honor in the United States for the public library industry. Kathy prides herself on her depth of knowledge in leading diverse teams, grant writing and management, and providing mentoring for colleagues. Kathy believes in a work life balance and her personal website is filled with more articles about her travels, photography, and her love of gardening in the desert southwest. Check out her social media for more information. https://twitter.com/kathy_husser And her website to learn more: https://sites.google.com/view/kathyhussertempe/hom

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