Course Objective & Scope
In cultures where looking flawless is prized over learning, teams stick to safe routines and process improvement stalls. This programme moves Carol Dweck's growth mindset beyond slogans into daily management habits: spotting fixed-mindset triggers, structuring work around hypothesis-experiment-measure loops, and capturing lessons systematically.
Participants identify safe-to-fail zones in their own work, separate intelligent failure from preventable error, and design an experimental learning sprint tailored to their team's goals.
Who Should Attend?
- Managers looking to build initiative and experimentation habits in their teams
- Product, process improvement, innovation and digital transformation teams
- Team leads, agile coaches and corporate development specialists
- Teams adopting new workflows and AI tools in their day-to-day operations
Key Takeaways
- Recognise and shift fixed-mindset triggers and language patterns at individual and team level
- Test new ideas through small, measurable hypothesis cards rather than oversized bets
- Distinguish preventable errors, complexity failures and intelligent failures (Amy Edmondson)
- Deliver process- and learning-focused feedback rather than outcome-only judgement
- Set up a concrete team learning sprint and experiment tracker
Curriculum
From Fixed to Growth Mindset: Behavioural Indicators
- Response patterns to challenge, criticism, effort and others' success
- Avoiding false growth-mindset traps in corporate culture
Intelligent Failure and Psychological Safety
- Separating preventable mistakes from exploratory intelligent failures
- Combining high standards with high psychological safety (the learning zone)
Hypothesis-Driven Work and Micro-Experiment Design
- Turning ideas into testable hypotheses: we believe that... to verify, we will...
- Designing bounded, low-cost (safe-to-fail) probes
- Success, pivot and stop metrics
Post-Experiment Learning and Blameless Debriefs
- Root-cause and learning-focused retrospective / post-mortem flow
- Folding lessons learned back into team playbooks and processes
Team Learning Sprint Workshop
- Writing 2-to-4-week experiment cards on a real organisational challenge
- Review cadence and leader support commitments
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