Episode 3. Exploring Growth Mindset and Positive Psychology - Lucy Whitehall

What is growth mindset and positive psychology and how can it help enhance your job search and career development? Lucy Whitehall, the founder of Transform and Thrive, discussed this and much more on Episode 3 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about:  Fixed versus Growth Mindset, Developing a Growth Mindset, Dealing with Failure, Neuroplasticity and its implications, Reframing and looking at the reality of the situation, Strategies for job hunting in the current climate, Networking in a virtual environment, Content creation and developing your brand, Dealing with difficulties in work related scenarios and Improving working from home. Lucy is a Masters level coach and employee wellbeing specialist. As a Positive Psychologist Lucy uses evidence-based approaches to help people tackle unhelpful assumptions and behaviours in order to enhance levels of psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing. Lucy is an accredited senior coaching practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and works one to one with C-suite leaders, partners, managers and entrepreneurs. She is adept at creating psychological safety for her clients through a compassionate, non-judgemental style which empowers her clients to create solutions that work effectively for them. Lucy offers over 20 years of experience in employee wellbeing and has experience working with companies in the commercial and third sector, establishing wellbeing strategies that help employees flourish and businesses succeed. Lucy holds a BSc in Life Sciences, MSc in Human Resource Management, and is a chartered member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD). Lucy is a qualified Mindfulness guide and holds the world recognised Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from the University of East London. Clients are at the heart of Lucy’s work and her lifelong commitment to learning includes continued professional development in areas including: Thinking Environment Coaching, Mindful Self-Compassion, Trauma informed coaching, At My Best Strengths facilitation and Coaching Psychology. I first met Lucy five years ago on a “Managing Personal Change Effectively” course organised by CABA, the Chartered Accountants Benevolent Association, which Lucy presented. It was the first time that a personal development course resonated with me as she introduced me to Carol Dweck’s work on the growth mindset and neuroscience concepts. This inspired me to start my personal development journey, which helped bring about the “Reframe & Reset Your Career” podcast so thank you Lucy! Lucy is also a big fan of Dorie Clark and she showed one of Dorie’s talks on the course. This was the first time that I had heard of Dorie’s work, which inspired me to reach out to Dorie, we connected and Dorie kindly agreed to be a future guest on the podcast! Lucy told me "this work by Carol Dweck was essentially postulating that it's the way that we approach challenge and difficulty in life that really leads to the outcome. So are we going to approach it with a mindset that is what she calls fixed, this idea of really not seeing the opportunity. Also this concept of seeing failure as the end … people with a growth mindset they will also feel disappointed, hurt and sad when they fail but what they do differently is to pick themselves up and say yes this hurts this feels really uncomfortable, I don't want to fail but they then start asking themselves I wonder what I can do differently next time, who can I talk to, what resources can I draw on, what can I learn and who can I learn it from"   People & Resources Mentioned Mindset – Dr Carol Dweck   Contact Lucy http://transformandthrive.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-whitehall-990549a/ https://www.instagram.com/lucyswhitehall/   Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/ReframeResetYourCareer  LinkedIn