May 10, 2020
Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D.
is a mental success coach and cutting-edge
leadership consultant, author, trainer, and researcher. He helps
improve organizations, leaders, teams, and employees by improving
their mindsets. Ryan is currently a leadership and management
professor at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at
California State University-Fullerton (CSUF). He holds a Ph.D. in
Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from Indiana
University, and a B.A. from Brigham Young University.
Ryan is the author of “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking
Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership.” (Morgan James
Publishing)
How do we tap into the “being” element of leadership?
different types of mindset:
Fixed vs. Growth mindset
Open vs. closed mindset
Prevention vs. promotion mindset
Inward vs. outward
Continuum of positive and negative.
The more we are towards the positive, the better we interact with our environment.
Innate beliefs about our ability to change affect how we interact with the world.
With a fixed mindset, we internalize failure as though it means we are a failure.
What kinds of interventions can help improve our mindset?
Engage in interventions to promote growth mindset but if the culture doesn’t support it, there’s no point.
How Jethro and Ryan each reacted when doing poorly in a class in their freshman year of college.
Our mindsets are foundational to everything we do. They shape how we see the world, and how we operate in the world.
Assess teacher’s mindset across the school and determine what our collective mindsets are across the school and what does that teach our students.
How a school changed their growth mindsets.
We take on the mindsets of our collective culture.
When people have a fixed mindset they focus on looking good.
When we are emphasizing grades and not learning and growing, we are emphasizing a fixed mindset.
Fixed vs. Growth mindset
90% of our thinking feeling acting is driven subconsciously. What drives that? Our mindsets.
Study about when kids faced difficult questions.
When we don’t believe we can improve, and we fail, we feel that we are failures.
Growth mindset - when we have that belief that we can change, we see growth as an opportunity to learn.
50/50 growth vs. fixed
Intervention for growth mindsets.