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Wellness Research on mindset & performance settings hold true with adults in the recognized so appropriate remedial workplace. It does. action can be undertaken. Here are just three studies. In a 2005 study, nuclear power plant How mindset impacts trainers' managers were assessed for their 1. People's brainwaves were & supervisors' coaching limited or winning mindsets. They monitored as they answered difficult were then told to observe and Lab studies have shown that winning questions and awaited feedback. evaluate a video-recorded "poor" mindset people are more likely to: Those with a limited mindset were employee performance. They were only interested in whether their • Educate rather than punish a then tasked with observing the same answers were right or wrong. Once wrongdoer employee exhibit "good" they learned this, they tuned out. • Provide helpful learning performance in similar situations. People with a winning mindset stayed suggestions to a struggling fellow tuned to learn what the right answers The results? Managers with a limited student were. Because of this greater interest mindset did not fully acknowledge • Express interest in helping other in learning, they did significantly the extent to which the employees' children in need by collecting money better when later tested on the performance had improved. for charity. material. 2. Freshman attending the elite University of Hong Kong, where everything is taught in English, entered with different proficiencies in English. They were all told the faculty was considering offering needed instruction in English and asked if they would take it? Amongst those with poor English skills, those with a winning mindset were enthusiastic. Those with a limited mindset were not. They weren't willing to expose their weakness in order to fix it. They were willing to jeopardize their In another study they tasked the See, web link for Managers' Implicit managers with the same Assumptions in which these studies observations and evaluations but the are fully cited. managers were first shown "good" performance, followed by "poor" Heslin, VandeWalle and Latham set performance. Managers with a out to find whether these findings winning mindset more accurately generalized to the workplace. In two recognized the decline in field studies, managers' mindsets performance. Winning mindset predicted how employees evaluated managers responded more the managers' coaching skills. It objectively to performance changes. seems managers with a limited A follow-up study established that mindset decide, consciously or limited mindset managers provided unconsciously, why bother investing lower ratings of "good" performance in employee improvement if you don't if they had first received negative believe that significant change is college career instead. background information about an likely to occur? 3. Some struggling students were employee's prior performance. Now what? taught a winning mindset. They were taught the science that shows that every time you apply yourself and The implications? Limited mindset managers are less likely to alter either a positive or negative initial The research in limited and winning mindsets raises important questions. learn something new, your brain impression of an employee's • Can recruits and officers be taught forms new connections and you get performance. This could have a mindset that increases their smarter. These students became significant consequences. willingness to embrace challenges, motivated and significantly improved Employees could become resentful, obstacles and setbacks, then try their grades. apathetic or want to leave when their harder, persevere and excel? How mindset impacts trainers' improvements are not recognized. Or, an unnoticed decline in & supervisors' evaluation skills performance in critical professions A lot more research is emerging on like nuclear power plants, aviation, the effects of mindset in the medicine and policing could workplace. Its goal is to see if seriously compromise organizational • Can their trainers and supervisors be taught a mindset that increases their ability to recognize employee change and coach employees when needed? Dweck's research findings with kids effectiveness and public safety. The answer is an emphatic, winning and young adults in educational Performance declines must be mindset, YES! THE PROTECTOR Sept-Oct 2009 54
News WTC Emergency Drill Evokes Memories of 9/11 It was an emergency drill, yet the represented the largest police and "Smoke filled the tunnel, and we had scene of hundreds of firefighters, firefighter presence at the trade some 700 to 800 passengers on this police officers and other first center site since the aftermath of train," said Joseph Bruno, New York responders hustling around the Sept. 11, 2001. The purpose of the City's commissioner of emergency World Trade Center site Sunday drill was to improve interagency management. evoked the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. cooperation in the event of a real disaster. PATH service was suspended during the exercise, and streets around the Firefighters carried oxygen tanks, hoses and heavy axes into an underground train station, while police and other emergency personnel helped those playing injured - all part of a large disaster response exercise at ground zero. More than 800 first responders participated in a recent mock terrorist attack, which simulated an explosion on a New Jersey-bound PATH commuter train in a tunnel. The "The motto for today is: You can trade center site were blocked off. never be too prepared," said Chris Participating agencies included New Ward, executive director of the Port York City's police and fire Authority of New York and New departments and its Office of Jersey, which runs area transit hubs Emergency Management and and owns the trade center site. "We Department of Health and Mental will evaluate how well we did Hygiene, as well as the police prepare, how well we performed, find department of the Port Authority, wherever we did make mistakes and which operates the PATH trains. how we can improve." "The main thing we're trying to The two-hour drill recalled the July 7, evaluate is the ability of all these police, firefighters and other 2005, bombings on the London agencies to work together," Bruno emergency personnel joined about subway system more than the 2001 said. 150 volunteers, who posed as attack on the twin towers. injured passengers smudged with In the drill, two bombs went off at grime and fake blood. 8:01 a.m. on a train in the tunnel Poor communication and jurisdictional infighting between the police and fire departments impeded The hundreds of first responders between Manhattan and New Jersey. rescue efforts when the twin towers THE PROTECTOR Sept-Oct 2009 55
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