Is mindset awareness the key to unlocking your potential?
- Dr Nikki Osborne
- Sep 10, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 3
Did you know?
Mindset has been reported to be a common barrier that needs to be overcome when it comes to delivering cultural change.
Why?
An individuals mindset can influence their willingness to consider and accept different ways of working and their ability to implement change. It can also affect peers and colleagues, as we are all influenced by what we hear and see going on around us.
Does this matter?
Yes, because implementing change is not easy! It requires us as individuals to be able and willing to adapt in what can be a challenging and sometimes rapidly evolving environment. Whether that means keeping up to date with the latest news, trends, results, or technical developments and best practice.
As we strive to deliver results or hit targets, the actions required can test each and every one of us in different ways.
So, another question…
When was the last time you stopped to think about your mindset?
Your mindset determines how you will react to different experiences, the decisions you will make and how you respond to the challenges that your work will throw at you. It influences not only your behaviour, but also the impact that your behaviour has on others working around you.
But your mindset is not fixed, or pre-determined.
So with awareness and understanding of mindset traits and behaviours we are all capable of learning to develop or manage our mindset. Despite this knowledge, mindset is very rarely spoken about within many work environments.
Is now the time for change?
We live in a world where there is growing awareness of the importance of an individuals mental and physical health. A good work culture and/or ethos is considered desirable and worth taking time to develop and maintain. Awareness of mindset traits, triggers and behaviours can enhance these developments further.
We can all benefit from better understanding our own habits, triggers and those of others working around us. As leaders, mentors and supervisors we can also learn to read and understand others behaviours better. Enabling us to offer the support or guidance that individuals need to develop behaviourals beneficial to themselves and others working around them. And informing discussions or decisions regarding acceptable professional behaviours and reward pathways.
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References
Osborne NJ. Is mindset awareness the key to unlocking your research potential? Laboratory Animals. 2022;0(0). doi:10.1177/00236772221129744
RSPCA. Report of an RSPCA online debate. Could we achieve a phaseout of animal experiments in the UK?, https://www.rspca.org.uk/webContent/staticImages/Downloads/UKPhaseOutFull.pdf (2021, accessed 17 March 2022).
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