Tweddle Group Outward Mindset

If you want fresh results, it's time to deploy some fresh thinking.

Do you ever find it difficult to listen to others without imposing your own agenda? It seems that most of us struggle to listen to others without trying to change the other person's views to align with our own.

What a great reminder!

"The researchers found that compared to workers in the non-certified buildings, workers in the green-certified buildings had 26 percent higher cognitive function scores, reported 30 percent fewer "sick building" health symptoms, and saw 6.4 percent higher "sleep quality scores" (as measured by wearable sleep monitors). This research follows a bombshell 2015 study by the same group that found elevated indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) has a direct and negative impact on human cognition and decision-making - at CO2 levels that most Americans (and their children) are routinely exposed to today inside classrooms, offices, homes, planes, and cars."

By Courtney Lukitsch, Founder and Principal, Gotham PR Building a great, solid team is at the heart of any business-whether you're on the agency or client-side. While the term "team" is bandied about with tremendous frequency and import, it's that rare firm that takes the time to identify the core values that each team member within the organization-and the team as a whole-possesses.

The basics of meeting preparation (things like inviting the right participants and testing equipment) can feel like second nature for many who are familiar with the routine. But beyond logistics, anxiety can arise for individuals who are less comfortable with what happens off-script during meetings. Concern around asking the right questions, having the right responses and utilizing meeting time productively often distracts from the end goal. But there's a way to cut through meeting anxiety, and it's centered on helpfulness.

How often do we feel disappointed in others' performance or behavior? As leaders, it's our responsibility to take action to mend unproductive relationships. With Arbinger I've learned to ask myself two questions when I find myself thinking like this. "Am I curiously seeking and hearing the other person's opinion with the intention of understanding?" "How am I making this situation worse for them?"

Nice read, Joe - thank you! "An effective "outside, inside, out" process, as Arbinger calls it, involves intense curiosity, active listening and internalization followed by strategizing around how one can be helpful to others moving forward."

The romance of goal-setting captures our attention at least once a year (looking at you, New Years). We want to run marathons, we want to write books, we want to fall in love, we want to get in shape-we want to follow through on our commitments and reach the goals we've set for ourselves, but it's all easier said than done.

"A good leader should always ... " How you finish that sentence could reveal a lot about your leadership style. That's the idea behind a management survey tool called the Leadership Development Profile. Created by psychologist Susanne Cook-Greuter and professor Bill Torbert, the survey relies on a set of 36 open-ended sentence completion tasks to help researchers better understand how leaders develop and grow.

If you work your self-sufficiency muscle, you'll learn that you can withstand almost anything. Your powers of observation will become almost superhuman. No longer will you feel trapped in a life you hate. And you'll have a new soul mate at the end of the journey-you.

LOVE this!

In data collected following the workshop, 100% of the participants reported that as a result of session, they had experienced a change in the way they viewed others and 100% of the participants reported that they would recommend others to watch the film and attend a post-film discussion.

Despite mounting evidence of the advantages of a mindset-model approach, most leaders persist in behavioral-model strategies. In our experience, they do this first out of habit and second out of ignorance regarding good mindset-change strategies.   Leaders who want to begin focusing on changing the prevailing mindsets in their organizations first need to determine the kind of mindset change they are seeking. Arbinger's work is about moving individuals, teams, and entire organizations from inward-mindset orientations to outward-mindset orientations2.

Great article! Thank you! Last paragraph is very powerful: Find someone who can be a mentor or accountability partner to help you see the future vision of you before it's "hatched." As Einstein said, "We can't solve a problem on the level of consciousness that created it." Shift your consciousness by getting empowering and uplifting help from someone who believes in you and won't let you take "no" for answer about your own life.

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...choose your attitude and adjust your expectations.

Success doesn't come from movement and activity. It comes from focus-from ensuring that your time is used efficiently and productively.

"You get the same number of hours in the day as everyone else. Use yours wisely. After all, you're the product of your output, not your effort. Make certain your efforts are dedicated to tasks that get results."