<ul><li>Leaders with a promotion mindset identify a specific goal and are focused on progress toward the destination.</li><li>Leaders with a prevention mindset are focused on avoiding losses and preventing problems.</li></ul>

Promotion and Prevention Mindsets

Mindsets drive what leaders do and why they do it. Two different leaders might face the same situation but respond to it very differently. One leader might see the case as threatening, whereas the other leader might see it as an opportunity.

Mindsets in leaders

<ul><li>Leaders with a deliberative mindset are open to all kinds of information to ensure they think and act as best as possible.</li><li>Leaders with an implemental mindset focus on implementing decisions without considering new or different ideas.</li></ul>

Deliberative and Implemental Mindsets

A growth mindset is a belief that anyone can change their talents, abilities, and intelligence. Those with a growth mindset:<ul><li>take on challenges</li><li>take advantage of feedback</li><li>use the most effective problem-solving strategies</li><li>provide developmental feedback</li><li>is persistent in accomplishing goals</li></ul>Conversely, those with a fixed mindset believe that talents, abilities and intelligence can't be improved.

Growth and Fixed Mindsets

Leaders with a learning mindset are motivated to increase their competence and master something new.
A performance mindset desires to gain favorable judgments about competence and avoid negative judgements.

Learning and Performance Mindsets

Executive Summary If organizations want their investment in leadership development to more fully pay off, it is essential that they prioritize mindset development - specifically by targeting growth, learning, deliberative, and promotion leader mindsets. As mindsets shift and develop, leaders' thinking, learning, and behaviors will naturally improve because they are seeing an interpreting their situations more effectively.

Mindsets in leaders

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