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Overcome your defensive side to generate higher productivity
From the course: Leadership Mindsets
Overcome your defensive side to generate higher productivity
- As leaders, it's tempting for us to create a world in which we're perfect. We can choose partners, friends, hire people who make us feel faultless at all times. We can always pretend to have answers. The question, however, would be, how would we then find constructive criticism that can support our growth? It's an unfortunate fact that we find many defensive routines inside organizations because a defensive mindset is by nature self-protective and self-deceptive. In a defensive mindset, individuals or groups only seek out information that protect them. Truth can be shut out when it's seen as threatening. As a result, decisions may be made on false assumptions. When people become victim to such interpersonal interactions, it creates a need for them to close up and protect self from embarrassment and threat. This sort of behavior actually shrinks individual and collective performance. A productive mindset, on the other hand, create opportunities for reasoning. It provides a natural…
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Choose a caring mindset to improve employee engagement3m 38s
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Focus on abundance to drive meaning in the work environment3m 31s
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Focus on well-being to increase equity across employees3m 56s
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Overcome your defensive side to generate higher productivity3m 32s
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Connect to improve consciousness in the work environment3m 54s
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Focus on collective results to build cohesion and trust3m 3s
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Engage in a growth mindset to become a life-long learner3m 42s
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Embrace a practice mindset to drive business impact3m 40s
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