The Power of Mindset
Webinar Overview
This empowering session draws on research in the fields of psychology, performance, and neuroscience. It looks at what really drives excellence and how our talent is not a gift we are born with, but something that is developed through opportunity, commitment, and ‘deep’ practice.
It explores how our beliefs around the nature of talent can transform our psychology and therefore our success in work and in life. Illustrated by inspiring real life case studies from sport, business, the arts, and everyday life.
Learning Objectives
- To understand research on the nature of talent and the importance of mindset To appreciate how a growth mindset can lead to greater success, happiness, and resilience.
- To learn how to adopt a growth mindset in our own lives and how to develop and foster it in the lives of others.
- To learn how to ‘practise’ to optimise results and grow your ‘talent’?
Content and Learning
- The psychology of beliefs – how they can transform our psychology and lives.
- Talent and excellence – nature or nurture. What are the real secrets to success?
- Opportunity and deep, purposeful practise – neuroplasticity and the role of myelin
- The psychology of success - passion and perseverance
- Fixed and Growth mindsets and how they drive our behaviour, how we respond to challenges and adversity, success, and failure.
- How to recognise and change our own mindset
- How to develop a growth mindset in those around us – to include children and team members. How should we praise, reward, and recognise behaviours?
Speaker Bio - Nick Thomas
Nick offers a unique combination of skills in the UK insurance training sector – an industry sales specialist and a professional coach and trainer. Nick is an Economics graduate with over 25 years corporate insurance broking experience. He was a highly successful sales producer in the UK broking market before progressing into regional and then national sales leadership roles. As National Development Director at HSBC, Nick was one of only 40 people from a global workforce of 265,000 selected as part of the STARS programme to recognise exceptional performance. He is a highly trained consultative sales specialist, and his experience includes a secondment with a major management consultant to design a best practice sales process.
In the mid-2000s, Nick developed a chronic health condition; his journey to recovery fostered a new range of interests, and a passion for health, and performance. He studied widely, qualifying as a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), obtaining a Diploma in Life Coaching, before going on to study Corporate/Business Coaching with The Coaching Academy. Nick is also a qualified Holistic Lifestyle Coach and Advanced Exercise Coach.
In the last two years Nick has worked in a self-employed capacity in training, coaching, and consulting. He works with a specialist adviser in Insurance sector M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions), and through Nick Thomas & Associates.
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