https://www.growingtheelephant.com/home daily 0.75 2022-01-19 https://www.growingtheelephant.com/growth-advantage-mindset daily 0.75 2023-12-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/12d67904-0c97-47a1-8b53-327a97eed22e/16.+growth+mindset.jpg Growth Advantage Mindset Your mindset, or an established set of attitudes, begins with your natural traits but develops over time based on life experiences. Your mindset is a lens through which you see and understand the world - it interprets and decodes everything you perceive - so it’s quite powerful! Growth mindset, pioneered by psychologist and author Carol Dweck, has been adapted across disciplines and is a valuable framework to understanding learning and development. Here are a few important points about mindset: Mindset does not define you - you are not what you think. You may hold a fixed mindset on a particular topic, but that’s something you hold, not something you are. Mindset can be maintained by habit, influenced by events, and changed by choice. A particular mindset can go unchallenged for a lifetime, or can be rocked by an experience, or can be grown by intentional action. Mindset is not uniformly fixed or growth about everything. You can hold a growth mindset about your ability to dance while holding a fixed mindset about your ability to speak publicly. You can hold a growth mindset about your potential for success while holding a fixed mindset about the potential of others - and vice-versa. https://www.growingtheelephant.com/the-authors daily 0.75 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/48a18e4d-9832-4dd8-ae38-a93bf6d8d473/Chris+portrait.jpg Glo & Chris - Chris Altizer Currently consulting and teaching, Chris Altizer, MBA, MA has led teams and worked with CEOs and senior leaders around the globe. A retired, recovering HR executive with every unearned advantage short of height, Chris now consults and coaches executives globally and teaches at Florida International University College of Business and the FIU Center for Leadership. From this privileged position, he joins Gloria in addressing the elephant in the room – the elephant of unearned advantage. Chris’s unusual combination of experiences as a business leader and mindfulness teacher have greatly influenced his work in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Dissatisfied with current approaches and facing a polarized landscape, he invites readers to experiment with well-researched, non-religious contemplative practices to help them explore the elephant of unearned advantage and grow the elephant of earned advantage – for all. A published author, researcher, and cited expert in human resources, Chris holds an MBA with honors from Columbia University, MAHRD from Northeastern Illinois University and BA from Hampden-Sydney College as well as MBSR teacher qualification through UC San Diego. He is a certified Yoga Teacher and 5th degree black belt martial artist. More about Chris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/67f890e2-d010-4331-9074-88735da4d03d/Gloria+Johnson-Cusack+Headshot.JPG Glo & Chris - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/cef66fe2-a4c5-4245-a407-bcec0c189281/Back_packshot.jpeg https://www.growingtheelephant.com/endorsements daily 0.75 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/cd0f2952-d405-4a2b-9547-245cf0a62f0b/Chris-Altizer-Linkedin.png Endorsements - Read our People Managing People Interview “Lack of Awareness Is Holding Us Back From a Better World of Work,” with Tim Reitsma. https://www.growingtheelephant.com/growing-the-elephant-resources daily 0.75 2022-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/4939953f-4d0e-47c1-89b0-b99ef38d33db/5.+elephant+parts.png Resources Exploring the Elephant - 6 Blind Men & the Elephant - a parable (link to 2:38 YouTube) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/c37711e8-5743-4378-972e-5b6ad5b555ea/6.+working+with+advantage.png Resources Free downloadable Reader's Guide for Exploring the Elephant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/27f1319a-ad5a-4a0b-a111-cdbdd89286e0/elephant+in+the+room+image.jpg Resources How can my organization face the elephant in the room? See our offerings deck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/c4e140bb-2d3a-4c8a-939e-ef316cf80d64/16.+growth+mindset.png Resources Growth Advantage Mindset Self Assessment https://www.growingtheelephant.com/home-page daily 1.0 2024-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/ab3c2f56-486e-431b-a07a-ffd471832a5f/Screen+Shot+2022-12-17+at+2.48.01+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/d839b839-c684-4c8c-b971-0d6987941773/Business+Book+Awards+Smart+Thinking+2023.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/7454061b-6be6-4cd9-9e89-aefb2c2549a0/2.+elephant+with+main+model.png Growing the Elephant Home - The elephant of advantage. Privilege? Social injustice? Equal opportunity? What does 'equal opportunity' mean when the opportunities to earn it are impacted by who you are or where you’re from? Who has these advantages? Why are they so hard to talk about? What can anyone do about it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/05c19782-5fbf-40f9-b0dd-a8334c790f2b/SHRM+logo.png Growing the Elephant Home - Make it stand out SHRM-approved for Recertification Credits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/713eb5bd-9dad-44e9-bc98-4cdf0525c44e/Screen+Shot+2022-03-01+at+5.42.49+PM.png Growing the Elephant Home - Explore the Elephant. Growing the Elephant: Increasing earned advantage for all is the story of Advantage - Earned and Unearned. Earned Advantage is the part of the Elephant we know. Work hard – get rewarded; form relationships - get opportunities. But while anyone can earn Advantage, some have more opportunity than others. That's the story of Unearned Advantage. Unearned Advantage is the part of the Elephant we avoid. It is so hard to talk or even think about that those with it ignore or deny it while those without it are exhausted or incensed by it. Unearned Advantage is about more than race or color – it includes gender, identity, age, upbringing, origin, disability, even physical appearance and personality. It’s all of who you are and where you’re from - whoever you are and wherever you’re from. In Growing the Elephant, readers meet a team working together and striving to recognize, work with, and expand Earned Advantage for themselves and each other. Applying contemplative practices of intention, reflection, and compassion, readers follow Robert, Yvonne, Maria, and Alvin to learn to recognize and work with Advantage. With practice, they begin Growing the Elephant by expanding opportunities for earned Advantage - for everyone. Growing the Elephant is for anyone in business, academia, and community who is working to increase innovation, performance, and inclusion. Unlike most diversity approaches, it aims to build skills, practices, and mindset to meet and stay with what’s difficult. It is for leaders and followers at any level and those who help them in building and sustaining inclusion, diversity, and equity. https://www.growingtheelephant.com/gam-explained-1 daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/dda89f2a-a53b-4085-a2e3-f49cee4a1415/men+communicating.jpg GAM Explained - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/12d67904-0c97-47a1-8b53-327a97eed22e/16.+growth+mindset.jpg GAM Explained - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/d6203f0d-2939-43c2-8b9e-f5213c7869d0/13.+wind.png GAM Explained - Headwinds, Tailwinds https://www.growingtheelephant.com/growth-advantage-mindset-explained daily 0.75 2022-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/12d67904-0c97-47a1-8b53-327a97eed22e/16.+growth+mindset.jpg Growth Advantage Mindset Explained - Simply put, in a growth mindset, people believe they can develop their abilities and talents if they work at it and are willing to try, fail, and learn. Pioneered by Carol Dweck in her best-selling book, Mindset, and since adapted in education, business, and science, growth mindset is compared to a “fixed mindset” where things “are what they are” and are hard or impossible to change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/dda89f2a-a53b-4085-a2e3-f49cee4a1415/men+communicating.jpg Growth Advantage Mindset Explained - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/d6203f0d-2939-43c2-8b9e-f5213c7869d0/13.+wind.png Growth Advantage Mindset Explained - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.growingtheelephant.com/growth-advantage-mindset-introduction daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/d6203f0d-2939-43c2-8b9e-f5213c7869d0/13.+wind.png Growth Advantage Mindset Introduction - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e8657b152be26b7ab5390b/12d67904-0c97-47a1-8b53-327a97eed22e/16.+growth+mindset.jpg Growth Advantage Mindset Introduction - Simply put, in a growth mindset, people believe they can develop their abilities and talents if they work at it and are willing to try, fail, and learn. 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