Managing Your Mindset

FountainBlue’s March 18 When She Speaks program was on the topic of ‘Managing Your Mindset’. Please join me in thanking our hosts at Cisco and our esteemed panelists. 

Our inspiring, experienced and resilient panelists spoke humbly and eloquently about why we should each manage our mindset, and how they have been successfully able to do so, especially during challenging times. Below is a compilation of their advice and best practices:
Know Thyself

• Know your north star around values and around purpose, and regularly center on that north star.
• Positively frame your personal and professional journey and celebrate your learnings and victories.
• Know your strengths, your weaknesses, your buttons, and use this knowledge to manage your own mindset.
• Manage your mindset with a pause when you feel emotions rising. 

Model the Way

• Be confident enough in your value and competence so that you’re comfortable tackling projects and assignments just beyond your reach.
• Be generous, gracious, kind, and curious about the other person’s perspective.
• Accept your initial responses to uncomfortable new opportunities, and make the best of the options in front of you.
• Be Open to learning new things, trying new experiences.
• Never Settle! Keep reaching for stars.

Create a Build a Resilient Culture with a Positive and Proactive Mindset

• Practice the Multiplier Effect – amplify the impact.
• Manage to the needs of each individual, and inspire them to be confident and bold.
• Be the translator and mediator between contentious parties, to manage the energy of the team, the mindsets of individuals on the team. 
• Celebrate and enable successes. 
• Stand on the shoulders of those who have come before you, and reach down to help others also stand.

Keep Centered

• Surround yourself with the sponsors, mentors, friends, family, etc., who will keep you centered on your values and your purpose.
• Frame your self-talk to be more growth-centered, more proactive, more productive. 
• Choose activities and actions which would help you manage your own body, mind and spirit, whether it’s exercise or nature or singing or dancing.

In a time when change is a constant and the future is unknown, it becomes more critical to manage your mindset, so that you can be more productive, happier and more content both at work and at home. 

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