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Four distinct sets of mindsets that have been found to affect leaders’ ability to engage with others, navigate change more successfully, and perform in their leadership roles more effectively. Where's your mindset? Growth and Fixed Mindsets. A growth mindset is a belief that people, including oneself, can change their talents, abilities, and intelligence. Conversely, those with a fixed mindset do not believe that people can change their talents abilities and intelligence. Learning and Performance Mindsets. A
learning
mindset involves being motivated toward increasing one’s competence and
mastering something new. A performance mindset involves being motivated toward
gaining favorable judgements (or avoiding negative judgements) about one’s
competence. Leaders with a learning mindset, compared to those with a
performance mindset, are more mentally primed to increase their competence,
engage in deep-level learning strategies, seek out feedback, and exert more of
an effort.
Deliberative and Implemental Mindsets. Leaders with a deliberative mindset have a heightened receptiveness to all kinds of information as a way to ensure that they think and act as optimally as possible. Leaders with an implemental mindset, as the name suggests, are more focused on implementing decisions, which closes them off to new and different ideas and information. Promotion and Prevention Mindsets. Leaders with a promotion mindset are focused on winning and gains. They identify a specific purpose, goal, or destination and prioritize making progress toward it. Leaders with a prevention mindset, however, are focused on avoiding losses and preventing problems at all costs. Research has found that those with a promotion mindset are more prone to positive thinking, more open to change, more likely to persist despite challenges and setbacks, and demonstrate higher levels of task performance and innovative behaviors compared to leaders with a prevention mindset. It's essential that organizations prioritize mindset
development — specifically by targeting growth, learning, deliberative,
and promotion mindsets. As leaders cultivate each, their thinking, learning,
and behaviors will naturally improve because they're seeing and interpreting
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