Defining Mindset and the Value of Collaboration

Psychology

What is a Mindset?

So many of us love to spend our time working to improve our mindset, and while internally we may have an understanding of it, let's attempt to define it together.

E. Scott Gellar, and Krista Gellar (2020) attempt this same feat to answer the million dollar question; How does a person improve their mindset? According to the Gellars (2020), they stated a good mindset is determined by 3 factors; self-efficacy, response-efficacy, and outcome expectancy.

Self-efficacy is a person's belief in themselves and if they can accomplish the task or goal before them. Response-efficacy is the person's belief in the strategy in place to accomplish that task. Outcome expectancy is the belief of how beneficial accomplishing the task will actually be when it's all said and done.

Based off this, we can begin to shape how to improve our mindset. If there is personal doubt, that is a struggle with self-efficacy. When there are nerves about how an idea is going to be perceived, that is impacting response-efficacy. When there is reluctance on how impactful accomplishing a certain task is, that is effecting outcome expectancy. Taking the time to understand where the stressors are specifically is the start to solving the problem. Read more about solutions below!

Education

The Value of Collaboration

Last week I spent time sharing with you the importance of developing soft skills in the youth today. Today, I want to continue that conversation, but extend it to our teachers and healthcare workers.

In the education and healthcare sectors respectively, professionals are expected to have strong interdisciplinary collaboration skills to execute the responsibilities effectively. What this means, is there is an expectation that teachers and healthcare workers have strong a ability to converse, engage, and professionally collaborate in addition to career specific competency. Manning and Hermes (2022) make the case that these collaborative skills need to be continuously included in the educational framework at the higher education level.

Why are teachers and healthcare workers the two directly mentioned in this article? Let us first determine the important similarity these two careers share. Education and healthcare are professions that are situational by nature. The days events require a level of physical experience that can't be gained from time spent reading a textbook. Additionally, the solutions to common problems seen may not always be as simple as the textbook provided answer. By incorporating interdisciplinary collaborative practice at the higher education level provides that very experiences that is so beneficial to these situational career paths and having an educational framework such as this better prepares higher education students for real time experience. Read more below!

Keeping it REAL

In a recent study conducted by ScienceDirect, it was found that a person's propensity for being real, very directly correlates to individual authenticity.

Realness by this definition is a person's ability to stay true to their internal beliefs, and broadcast that same disposition socially without regard for ramifications. Realness was found to be a very predictive social behavior.

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