E011 Capacity for Change with Charlie Warshawski

In this episode we dive deep into how our mindset can impact our capacity for change. Chatting with the wonderful Charlie Warshawski, who has worked closely with Carol Dweck, we explore her pioneering research into mindsets and how shifting our belief from, ‘I can’t do something.’ to ‘I haven’t yet learned the process,’ can help us grow.

KEY TAKEAWAY

“The mantra these days is praising effort, or praising process, rather than praise a person. The problem is that praise often undermines people's self-esteem. Often it sends a message to say we are praising and evaluating you. We are saying, we think you're brilliant, we own the view about whether this picture is good, this drawing is good, this piece of work is good, whether your intrinsic personality is good. Whereas if we step back from that a bit, and we start using descriptive praise, we can describe what we see. And if we're going to praise anything, we praise effort. We praise process.”

ABOUT CHARLIE

Charlie is an education leadership coach and trainer, specialising in supporting organisational, team and individual change. He offers 20 years of education, coaching and training experience, with a background that spans the education, voluntary and commercial sectors. He has worked with students as their mentor, with staff and leadership teams as their coach. Since 2015 Charlie has been part of a team working under the supervision of Professor Carol Dweck, author, and main researcher of mindset theory. The work has involved running in-depth programmes for teachers, helping them to develop a growth mindset culture.

Charlie’s Recommendations:

Books:

Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential Dr Carol Dweck* Mindset

Punished By Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes Alfie Kohn* Punished by Rewards

TEDx Talk:

The Power of Believing You Can Improve Dr Carol Dweck https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve

CONNECT WITH CHARLIE

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/charliewarshawski

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveyourcoaching/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/loveyourc

Website: www.loveyourcoaching.com

ABOUT THE HOST – MEL LOIZOU

Mel is a Consultant, Coach, Facilitator, Speaker, Podcast Host & Mum. Specialising in leadership and change management in the Higher Education sector, Mel uses her Fish Climb Trees philosophy to help individuals, teams and organisations, shift from that place of believing they can’t, to one where they know they absolutely can.

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