326: Growth Mindset Helps You Rise From the Ashes, with Jeff Hittenberger

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

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🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Hittenberger: Orange County Department of Education

Jeff Hittenberger is the Chief Academic Officer for the Orange County Department of Education. In this conversation, Jeff and Dave discuss the value of growth mindset for leaders, how the Orange County Department of Education is helping employees develop with it, and Jeff’s own personal journey to bring it into his work and life.

Key Points

If you don’t deal with things on a personal level, they will oftentimes negatively affect your work.
It is important to cultivate emotional intelligence in the workplace.
A growth mindset will help you overcome a sense of despair because it gives you a sense of agency.
Learning about the growth mindset as a team will give you a common language to communicate with.
Poor reactions to a problem can make the problem even bigger.
Learning about emotional intelligence while in the workplace will also help outside of work.
Learning about a growth mindset and emotional intelligence takes time; it can’t be a one-shot deal.

Resources Mentioned

The Growth of the Mind* by Stanley Greenspan
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success* by Carol Dweck
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ* by Daniel Goleman
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There* by Marshall Goldsmith

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0:00.0	Have you ever crashed and burned? Are you perhaps in the ashes right now?
0:06.2	Your commitment to a growth mindset may be just the thing to rise you up.
0:11.4	On today's episode, the Path Out of the Ashes and Towards Growth.
0:16.3	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 326.
0:21.2	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:27.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:32.6	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:37.2	Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical
0:42.3	wisdom that will empower you to become
0:45.4	a better leader.
0:47.4	And if you've listened to this show for a while, you know that I am a big believer in
0:52.3	how can we look at things practically in a way
0:54.9	that'll help us every day as leaders to be more effective and today's guest
1:00.4	is someone who has not only been a listener of the show for a while, has been a
1:04.8	dear friend for a long time, and has been an organizational leader in many capacities in
1:10.1	his own right, and he's here today to teach us how to not crash and burn and how do we rise up
1:16.2	from the ashes when we do. I'm really glad to welcome Jeff Hittenberger to the show.
1:20.9	Jeff is a longtime friend of Bonnie and myself. He previously worked with
1:25.8	Bonnie in higher education and he is currently the chief academic officer for
1:30.3	the Orange County Department of Education.
1:32.6	I'm so glad to welcome you to the show today, Jeff,
1:35.4	because you all have been doing some really innovative things
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