Manage your mindset : maximize your power of personal choice /

As the foremost researcher in the area of correlating mindset with a variety of organizational learning factors, having performed a survey validation study of the Mindset Works, Inc. What's My School Mindset? Survey and the Project for Educational Research That Scales (PERTS) academic mindset s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanson, Janet
Corporate Author: Rowman & Littlefield EBA
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Manage Your Mindset; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Get Yourself Free-Manage Your Mindset; Why Mindset Is Important; Background of Mindset; Hitting a Moving Target; Shifting Your Focus; 2 Your Mind Is What You Make It; How Focus Influences Learning; Mindset and Learning; Types of Learning; Emotional Memory; 3 Maximizing Your Power of Personal Choice; Transformative Learning; Reflection; Transcendent Referents Provide Power for Integrity; 4 Gain Control of Your Learning; Mapping Skills to the Brain; The Mind-Body-Cell Connection; Algorithms for Action; Mindset for Prediction and Control.
  • 5 The Biology of FlexibilityRegions of the Brain; Conscious and Subconscious Processing; Mindset and Flexibility; Flexibility Quiz; 6 The "I" and "We" of Identity; The Hydra and Social Identity; Social Organization; Finding the Balance between "I" and "We"; Mindset and Goal Alignment; Goal Alignment Survey; 7 Predicting What Will Make You Happy; Happiness and Social Connection; The Cycle of Happiness; Happiness from Goal Pursuit Survey; 8 Gross National Happiness; Outcome Measures or Markers for Growth; Next Step-Wisdom; Truth and Lies; The Power of Personal Choice; 9 Norms and Organizing.
  • Formal System versus Social OrganizingInformal Structures-The Concept of Organizing; Norms; Individual Agency and Social Integration; 10 Understanding Your Behaviors in the Group; Mindset and Agency; Collection versus Collective; Organizational Mindset Behaviors; Leadership within Open Vital Systems; 11 Keeping Healthy by Being Open to Feedback; The Feedback Loop; Mindset and Feedback Loops; The Influence of the Group; Monitoring Progress toward Goals; 12 Developing Your Connections; Bonding versus Bridging; Healthy Connections; Levels of Organizational Learning; Mindset and Organizing.
  • 13 Language in CommunicationOrganizational Communication; Abstract Language Concepts; Consequences of Logic Errors; Using the Processes of Scientific Inquiry; Trait versus State Theory; 14 How Culture Affects Your Mindset; Context-Centered and Person-Centered Cultures; Influence of Culture on Behavior; In-Groups and Out-Groups; Common Cultural Norms Facilitate Communication; Social Support for Individual Self-Regulation; Diversity and Multi-Culturalism; 15 A Growth Mindset for a Healthy Individual; A Healthy Mind, Body, and Soul; Healthy Practices Inventory; What We Resist Persists.
  • 16 Using the Research to Develop GrowthMindset Interventions; Intervention Outcomes; Measurement Tools; Criticisms of the Mindset Theory; Alternative Theories; 17 Putting It All Together; Developing Our Individual Identity; Working Together in a Social Context; The Influence of Self-Systems; Contributing to Growth; Mindset at the Center of the LOVS Framework; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.