In the tenth of our ten leadership concepts in our Take Another Step System, an inspirational leadership workshop: Leadership is the ability to provide a growth mindset culture.
Consider this quote from Simon Sinek:
“The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of the leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.”
Is your organization’s mindset encouraging others to think outside the box to find solutions?
For us to develop a growth mindset culture, we must:
1) Be a life-long learner
How does your organization establish higher sustainability, competitiveness, profitability, and wins? John Maxwell states, “Leadership and personal development compounds. The more you invest in people and the longer you do it, the greater the growth and the higher the return.” Leadership must be concerned with human development, but they must 1st recognize each individual’s capacity to learn. Continuous learning takes many different forms. These include: critical life experiences, failures, reading books, and structured classroom training. These are all effective methods of education. When an organization can capture these moments, and leverage them for growth, then everyone will take another step.
2) Understand that failure is an opportunity for growth
Thomas Edison said it this way, “I never lose. I either win or I learn.” Edison failed over 7,000 times inventing the light bulb. Our reaction to failure (and our people’s perception of that reaction) is critical in shaping the culture we desire. Instead of fleeing difficult issues, with the fear of failure minimizing their abilities, we want our people to run toward challenges with boldness, confident that leadership will have their back. Once our team knows that failure is not fatal, we will all be more focused and determined to take another step.
3) Encourage open and candid conversations (Safe Harbor)
Do your people feel free to speak their opinion in a respectful manner? For us to maximize our team’s abilities in challenging times, we must have mutual trust, which will allow us to have constructive and balanced conversations. Everyone must be willing to listen to those around them with an open mind and heart. The best ideas will be a collection of the team’s thoughts. It is our job as the leader to create this environment. Therefore, when you can harness people’s passion and intelligence, with candid, trusting conversations, something will ignite in their spirit, and everyone around us will take another step.
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