Agility Quotient
(Cover image credit: Ryderwear – https://www.ryderwear.com/collections/womens-leggings/) You have heard of intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ), but have you heard of agility quotient (AQ). Ok, so agility quotient hasn’t been rigorously studied like IQ or EQ, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have important practical implications. Agility quotient is one’s ability or capacity to […]
Why is Leadership So Bad that 75% of Employees Report their Boss is the Worst Part of their Job?
When I work with organization leaders, they generally all tell me they are “trying their best.” They all want to have a positive impact on the organizations they lead and the people they serve. While I buy that, I also know that: This tells me something very interesting: even though essentially all leaders have good […]
How to Develop More of a Growth Mindset
If you feel like a mindset novice, before reading this article, you might find value in reading these two articles: What are Mindsets & Why are They Foundational to Our Success? Research-Backed Benefits of Possessing a Growth Mindset They lay the groundwork for why we need to focus on developing more of a growth mindset. […]
Research-Backed Benefits of Possessing a Growth Mindset
If you feel like a mindset novice, before reading this article, you might find value in reading this article: What are Mindsets & Why are They Foundational to Our Success? It lays the groundwork for why I am focusing on and summarizing the benefits of a growth mindset. Growth and Fixed Mindsets We possess a […]
Are Mindsets a “Secret to Success?”
I often hear people say that mindsets are the “secret to success.” I am not sure if I buy this. Not because I don’t think mindsets are important, but because I don’t think it is a “secret” that mindsets are foundational to our success. I think most people know and understand the importance of mindsets, […]
Owning Your Mindsets: The Key to Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is a fancy term for possessing self-awareness and other-awareness in the following ways: Interesting factoids regarding emotional intelligence (from Emotional Intelligence 2.0): Regarding the two components of emotional intelligence, I have two beliefs: For this post, I want to focus on how we can enhance our self-awareness in order to improve our emotional […]
Mindsets: The Key to Personal Development
If you were to Google “how to be an effective ______________________” (fill in the blank; leader, employee, parent, follower, fisherman), you will inevitably end up with a near-endless list of articles that resemble the following: Now, if you were to click on each of those articles and identify all of the unique aspects of what […]
How Do We Improve Mindsets?
When I work with leaders to develop their leadership, I first: Because only 5% of people who take the personal mindset assessment are found to consistently operate with all four positive mindsets, one of the most frequently asked questions that I get is: How do I go about improving my mindsets? Cognitive Science Basics In […]
The Cognitive Science Behind Mindsets
What causes one person to see challenges as things to avoid, but another person to see those same challenges as opportunities to learn and grow? What causes one person to see others as objects, but another person to see those same people as people? Our mindsets! But why? To answer this question, we need to […]
The Five-Step Process to Develop Positive Qualities
The difference between the qualities that you have and the qualities that you want to possess is in how you see your world or, in other words, your mindsets. Thus, if you want to develop certain qualities that you do not yet have, it is essential that you change your mindsets.
