Your Mindset

Balancing the present moment while building the future requires a sophisticated mindset for the leader of today. Such a mindset understands the necessity of processing new ideas, challenging previously held assumptions, and embracing the ambiguity of a complex world.

To gain insight into the mindset of CEOs, the Fortune/Deloitte CEO Survey Fall 2023 concluded that the mindset of the CEO today is focused on a number of critical challenges with growth, uncertainty, and disruptive technology atop the list. Enter NJIT's Continued Learning.

A joint venture with the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), NJIT's Continued Learning offers individuals and organizations the ability to enhance their skill set by enrolling in online courses or creating customized training programs. 

In their January 17, 2020 Harvard Business Review article "To Be a Great Leader, You Need the Right Mindset," Ryan Gottfredson and Chris Reina identified four pairs of mindsets leaders needed to understand for themselves and for colleagues on their leadership teams:

• Growth and Fixed Mindsets. A growth mindset is a belief that people, including oneself, can change their talents, abilities, and intelligence. Conversely, those with a fixed mindset do not believe that people can change their talents abilities and intelligence. 
• Learning and Performance Mindsets. A learning mindset involves being motivated toward increasing one’s competence and mastering something new. A performance mindset involves being motivated toward gaining favorable judgments (or avoiding negative judgments) about one’s competence. 
• Deliberative and Implemental Mindsets. Leaders with a deliberative mindset have a heightened receptiveness to all kinds of information as a way to ensure that they think and act as optimally as possible. Leaders with an implemental mindset, as the name suggests, are more focused on implementing decisions, which closes them off to new and different ideas and information.
• Promotion and Prevention Mindsets. Leaders with a promotion mindset are focused on winning and gains. They identify a specific purpose, goal, or destination and prioritize making progress toward it. Leaders with a prevention mindset, however, are focused on avoiding losses and preventing problems at all costs. 

If you are interested in learning more about what NJIT's Continued Learning can do for you, email us today at continuedlearning@njit.edu.