2. Growth Mindset is a perspective that encourages students to view challenges and setbacks as opportunities for growth rather than as insurmountable obstacles.

3. The Power of Yet is a concept in the growth mindset philosophy that encourages individuals to add the word “yet” to things they believe they cannot achieve.

Undergrad and graduate students from the U of MN and private college students are welcome to:

-Volunteer

-Volunteer for their Page Education Scholarship (50 hrs)

-Utilize U of MN - Work Study awards

-Develop their leadership ability

-Serve in a variety of positions, i.e. leaders, mentors and/or interns

-Receive credit for service

-Take Mental Health First Aid (certification)

• A child with high self-efficacy believes they have the skills to help them steer through life and reach their goals.

• Self-efficacy is about learning how to persevere during a challenge or setback.

• Experiencing setbacks and failure helps foster strong self-efficacy in children.

• Help child set realistic, short-term goals.

• Praise effort and praise honestly. Praising ability rather than effort undermines motivation and performance.

• Help children see their strengths during a setback so they learn to rely on their abilities and persist.

• Model self-efficacy to children by sharing your own obstacles and efforts to work towards goals.

1 - Foresight and Intuition

History is important. You don’t ignore the past, but you also don’t let yesterday’s map guide you on a road that has yet to be constructed.

Through balancing both conscious analysis and innate understanding, you anticipate opportunities and process what lies ahead. This allows for proactive, instinctive planning and risk mitigation for emerging trends and disruptions.

You know that you have an important role to play. You also understand that no single person can do everything on their own. The organization can’t succeed when teams operate in silos.

You look for ways to involve multiple teams, build alignment in vision and function, solve real problems, and achieve sustainable wins for the organization.

Circumstances and environments evolve. New information is introduced. Disruptive technologies and trends change behaviors.

As conditions change, you apply what you learn to either pivot successfully and capitalize on new opportunities, or recognize that the best path forward is to stay the course and recommit to your vision and process.

When there is an unintended outcome and something doesn’t go according to plan, you don’t panic. There is no handwringing. You don’t judge or point fingers.

Recognizing that you can’t “unring” the alarm bell, you learn from what happened and why. Instead of focusing on failure or casting blame, capture lessons learned to better prepare for similar challenges in the future. In other words, you bounce back.