Here's how you can cultivate a growth mindset to excel in a dynamic work setting.

Some people live challenges, some others run away from them. Building resilience is key, but it's also important to build a network to find more information about what works best to complete the challenge, specially when you are new inthe field. A good research can ease your stress and bring you new insights that will contribute to your success, and be positive while keeping yourself realistic at the same time.

It's important to adopt a positive attitude. I firmly believe in the PEPH principle - Persistence, Enthusiasm, Persistence and Humour as a great foundation for a growth mindset. Treating every situation as an opportunity for learning and growth will help.

Challenges are positive, we must look for them all the time, Our life has been a challenge since the moment of conception, at that time we had the opportunity to compete against others for the privilege of life. We must see challenges as opportunities to be better in different fields; all challenges come with wisdom, skills or new point of view rewards. People character is molded by the challenges they accept during their lives.

Challenges and Change arise permanently. The ability to manage challenges is a key skill that prevents frustration and fear and allows individuals and organisations to grow. Implementing a lifelong learning and sharing culture is more likely to result in an organisation with successful change abilities.

Demonstrating intellectual humility is a key skill in fostering a growth mindset. If we accept the premise we don’t know everything, we accept learning as just natural an instinct of breathing - essential for life and growth!

Lifelong learning is not only fun but also enables us to develop new strategies and skills to become more effective in our activities and continue being innovative. It teaches us to challenge the status quo but also understand what works well already.

Continuos learning should also be thought as how much we know about ourselves. Have we identified how we learn better? Which topics truly makes us take action and which others are not interesting but still needed and how we can find the motivation to learn them. Which learning environments are better for us? Etc. Continuos learning is a never ending journey full of new discoveries. Also, learning new skills can support all other learning processes. For example, learning to play the piano will help you rewire your brain and you'll find it easier to learn a new topic.

Staying curious is fundamental to dealing with a dynamic work setting, and to learning continuously. From this steady curiosity and learning grows genuinely useful confidence, which only enhances one's ability to deal with whatever is NEXT.

Great Leaders are great Learners! In my day to day activities by demonstrating a commitment to learning, staying open and curious, I noticed that I was inspiring others to do the same.

When you reach a senior role you may not get as much feedback as you use to. Seek out a colleague who you trust, find credible and who has the opportunity to observe you in the workplace. Focus on behaviour, let them know what you are looking to improve & ask if they would be prepared to offer you feedback, in creating that psychological contract you may create a reciprocal relationship. The CLC surveyed over 19,000 employees, from 34 companies, 7 industry groups & 29 countries, identifying drivers of peak performance. When informal feedback is fair & accurate it improves performance by 39.1%, when the emphasis of a formal review is on strengths the improvement is 30%. Be a feedback role model it's healthy for you and the organisation,

We are not isolated individuals with the absolute truth. Feedback is vital to learn from others’ experiences to enrich ours. Is not nice sometimes to receive feedback when things are not going well but is our choice to take what others are sharing with us in a positive way, being grateful for the time they spend on us to be better. Feedback is the most valuable gift a person can provide to us.

Without feedback, it is not possible to continuously improve capabilities. This is true for personal development and your organisation or business. Not asking for external views and working on improvements will result in making you/the business not being relevant any more in the long run.

"Learn from anyone, any time" Seek for feedback, learn how your actions impact other people's circumstances. Be proactive seeking feeback from the broadest possible circle. Don't fall for the "over-friendly" ones, the "jood job!" type. Ask for constructive ones. You may use the Good-Difficult-Different (GDD) framework. - "What do I do that impacts you positively?" - "What is in my actions that is difficult for you deal with?" - "What shall I do differently?" These feedback loops will give you the knowledge on what are your strenghts (to build on) and how to improve continuously on the remaining skills and capabilities.

Celebrating growth is an effective way to maintain momentum. It's a great opportunity to document your achievements and recognize the hard work you're putting in. During the #IAmRemarkable workshops I facilitate, I've observed that many people tend to downplay their accomplishments and feel uncomfortable sharing them. Building this confidence takes time, but it's definitely achievable.

Celebrating Success (growth) to my way of thinking is extremely important not only to manifest positive achievements but also to show that it is worth performing - be successful. I tend to combine these moments with a reflection (lessons learned) to include also learnings from areas that did not work perfectly and require improvement. When packed into an overall positive experience, I believe a more open and sharing culture can develop.

Celebrating growth includes acknowleding every smallest lesson you have acquired. Reward yourself (and others) for every effort you have made , which turned out with a new skill/ capability/knowledge that equips you with new strengths for the future. Note: the strenght does not have to be a straight achievement; it can be the ability to recognize potential risks, mitigate or manage them and turn into opportunities. It can also be other people's successes that you have contributed to.

Collaboration, to my experience, supports speed, high-performance-cultures as well as reduces the likelihood of toxic work environments as it creates transparency. Especially in innovative environments, collaboration highly increases the speed and quality of work outcomes. A collaboration mindset does not mean 'discussion club'. However, to me it is a culture that empowers individuals and teams to dare to voice up and share ideas whenever they see they can contribute = also in e.g. crisis situations where leadership style will be more hierarchical. Sharing knowledge and experience in all situations is essential to ensure corporate decisions can be made with a proper risk evaluation.

In the many times I have had to step up and take charge, having a growth mindset means seeing challenges as opportunities to learn and grow. It's all about creating a space where everyone in the team feels pumped to embrace the new and see setbacks as just part of the journey, not as the end or give up. Leading by example, I've often encouraged my peers to tackle new work problems or grievances together, as one team. It is never easy, but reminding them that stumbling is part of life's building blocks means staying open to feedback, yearning to try out fresh ideas, and pivoting when needed. Celebrating wins, big or small, keeps us focused on continuous learning and boosts team spirit, contributing to a resilient, innovative workplace.

1️⃣ Start reaching out to people: - you can join the existing chat group at your workplace, - you can launch your own channel at MS Teams to gather people from different countries, cultures, with various job titles and experiences. 2️⃣ Organise a boost session to explore the people’s needs and expectations. 3️⃣ Offer improvement - for example if you think that there is a company process that actually is not effective, slows down the job, analyse it and offer solution to make it efficient. 4️⃣ Join initiatives proposed by others - be the follower before you become the influencer.

Be yourself! Simply seek a place where you can be yourself and with that meet other people that can and want to work with your true ‘you’! The best you can achieve is a teu work environment where you are a recognised leader and not ‘a boss’. With leaders companies growth faster and are able to achieve their goals while embracing change.

The biggest lesson for me in the context of the growth mindset includes the recognition that we humans are driven by rewards - and that they are deeply embeded in our social circle, and thru upbringing became part of our mental model, the pattern of behaviors. If we want to become "growth-oriented", we need to stop appreciating/rewarding self (and others) for the outcomes, rather focus on the invested efforts. If you are an athlete and your self-worth is driven by "winning a marathon" (the outcome), there is a high probability that at least one other athlete can be fitter, or have a better day - thus, arrive 1sec earlier to the finish. By appreciating the efforts not outcomes, you create environment where you can outgrow your failures.