HOW A LEADERSHIP SPEAKER CAN INSTILL A CULTURE OF GROWTH
One of the key indicators of a great leader is their ability to create a culture in which their employees can thrive. Workplaces that encourage employee growth, development, and autonomy have proven to decrease turnover, increase performance, and be more successful than their competitors. Mary C. Murphy, an organizational psychologist and expert on growth mindsets, has researched the ways that leaders can develop a culture of growth within their organizations that empowers their employees to reach their full potential.
What is a Growth Mindset?
Psychologists like Carol Dweck and Angela Duckworth have paved the way for research into growth mindsets and grit. It’s the belief that people can continually improve on their skills and abilities, and show resilience and determination in achieving their long term goals. It’s a fluid scale, but what is very clear is the more people align with a growth mindset, the more successful they ultimately become.
While this has been largely studied on an individual level, Mary C. Murphy asked the question “What role does environment play on an individuals’ mindset?” The answer was profound: a lot. Environment plays an enormous role in a person’s ability to tap into their growth mindset, and ultimately, how successful they are.
HOW MARY MURPHY CAN HELP
There are common indicators that exist in every workplace that define whether your workplace culture either encourages a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. In Mary’s work on Cultures of Growth, she outlines those indicators and provides leaders with actionable strategies that ensure that they are encouraging their employees to learn, develop their skills, find creative solutions to complex problems, and give them the trust and autonomy to grow.
One key indicator is whether collaboration is encouraged, or if there is an air of competition in the workplace. Leaders who want to encourage growth will promote collaboration with praise to entire teams’ success, giving employees the security to share ideas freely and work together.
Another key indicator is the organizations response to risk-taking. Mary shows that leadership’s response to calculated risk-taking has a massive impact on employee’s mindsets. Leaders who encourage their employees to take calculated risks and treat failures as learning experiences will see their employees learn faster and ultimately come up with better and better ideas as they grow within the organization.
Mary shows us that by learning and understanding the indicators and inflection points that establish a growth mindset in your organizations, leaders can create a culture that pushes their employees to reach their fullest potential. That’s something every leader can get behind.
ABOUT MARY MURPHY
Mary is the instant bestselling author of Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams and Organizations. She is the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, where she conducts pioneering research on motivation, performance, and intergroup relations. Among many other awards, she was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and received the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers—the highest award bestowed on early career scholars by the US government. Her research has been profiled in The New York Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, and NPR, among other outlets.
BOOK MARY MURPHY TO BE YOUR NEXT KEYNOTE SPEAKER
If you recognize that employee development is vital to your organizations success and understand that as a leader, you can create a culture that encourages your employees to maximize their potential, then Mary is the perfect leadership speaker to speak at your event.
Contact us to learn more about Mary or if you’d like to invite her to speak at your next event.
HOW A LEADERSHIP SPEAKER CAN INSTILL A CULTURE OF GROWTH
One of the key indicators of a great leader is their ability to create a culture in which their employees can thrive. Workplaces that encourage employee growth, development, and autonomy have proven to decrease turnover, increase performance, and be more successful than their competitors. Mary C. Murphy, an organizational psychologist and expert on growth mindsets, has researched the ways that leaders can develop a culture of growth within their organizations that empowers their employees to reach their full potential.
What is a Growth Mindset?
Psychologists like Carol Dweck and Angela Duckworth have paved the way for research into growth mindsets and grit. It’s the belief that people can continually improve on their skills and abilities, and show resilience and determination in achieving their long term goals. It’s a fluid scale, but what is very clear is the more people align with a growth mindset, the more successful they ultimately become.
While this has been largely studied on an individual level, Mary C. Murphy asked the question “What role does environment play on an individuals’ mindset?” The answer was profound: a lot. Environment plays an enormous role in a person’s ability to tap into their growth mindset, and ultimately, how successful they are.
HOW MARY MURPHY CAN HELP
There are common indicators that exist in every workplace that define whether your workplace culture either encourages a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. In Mary’s work on
Cultures of Growth, she outlines those indicators and provides leaders with actionable strategies that ensure that they are encouraging their employees to learn, develop their skills, find creative solutions to complex problems, and give them the trust and autonomy to grow.
One key indicator is whether collaboration is encouraged, or if there is an air of competition in the workplace. Leaders who want to encourage growth will promote collaboration with praise to entire teams’ success, giving employees the security to share ideas freely and work together.
Another key indicator is the organizations response to risk-taking. Mary shows that leadership’s response to calculated risk-taking has a massive impact on employee’s mindsets. Leaders who encourage their employees to take calculated risks and treat failures as learning experiences will see their employees learn faster and ultimately come up with better and better ideas as they grow within the organization.
Mary shows us that by learning and understanding the indicators and inflection points that establish a growth mindset in your organizations, leaders can create a culture that pushes their employees to reach their fullest potential. That's something every leader can get behind.
ABOUT MARY MURPHY
Mary is the instant bestselling author of
Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams and Organizations. She is the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, where she conducts pioneering research on motivation, performance, and intergroup relations. Among many other awards, she was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and received the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers—the highest award bestowed on early career scholars by the US government. Her research has been profiled in
The New York Times,
Forbes,
Harvard Business Review,
Scientific American, and
NPR, among other outlets.
BOOK MARY MURPHY TO BE YOUR NEXT KEYNOTE SPEAKER
If you recognize that employee development is vital to your organizations success and understand that as a leader, you can create a culture that encourages your employees to maximize their potential, then Mary is the perfect leadership speaker to speak at your event.
Contact us to learn more about Mary or if you’d like to invite her to speak at your next event.
