Sue Ashford is a professor in management and organization at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include leader effectiveness and development, issue selling, self-management and feedback processes in organizations.
Are you keen to step up to a leadership role but worried you aren’t quite ready? Sue suggests that everyone has leadership potential, and you learn leadership mostly from experience. But if you’re racing through your experiences mindlessly, you could be missing out on a lot of learning. By mindfully engaging in your experiences, and being open to growing, developing your skills and getting feedback you can be more effective at learning leadership skills.
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Edwin Locke is the Dean’s Professor of Motivation and Leadership Emeritus at the University of Maryland. He has published over 300 chapters and articles in professional journals on topics such as motivation, job satisfaction, incentives and the philosophy of science. He is internationally known for his research on goal-setting.
Goals are critical in helping us create change in our lives, and yet most people struggle to stick with the goals they set. In this conversation, you’ll hear Ed explain the importance of setting goals and what his 35 years of research has discovered about setting effective goals and why SMART goals may not be as smart as you thought they were.
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Website: http://edwinlocke.com
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Peggy Kern is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education in the Center for Positive Psychology. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles, and her research addresses the question, “Who flourishes, and why?”
Are we oversimplifying positive psychology? While the field has made much progress over the last 15 years in helping people find ways to improve their wellbeing, however, at best interventions are only beneficial for some people, some of the time, and are far from a magic bullet for everyone in all situations. Peggy suggests combining positive psychology’s focus on the individual with systems science to take into account the complex reality of our everyday contexts, could assist target interventions for individuals and the collective good.
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Website: http://peggykern.org
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Professor Carol Dweck is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the US Academy of Sciences and won nine lifetime achievement awards for her research. Her work is used by organizations around the world to transform their cultures.
In this conversation, you will hear Carol talk about fixed and growth mindsets and how her research has found they can impact our performance at work. She draws on her experience of helping organizations implement this type of mindset to share the small changes workplaces can make to cultivate growth mindset environments and where this can go wrong.
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Website: http://mindsetonline.com/abouttheauthor/
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