The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk 274: Heidi Grant - How To Get People To Help You (Reinforcements)
Sep 9, 2018
Heidi Grant, social psychologist and author who studies motivation and leadership, shares practical approaches to getting others to help you. She explores growth mindset and continuous improvement. She explains why people avoid asking for help and how to make requests clear and enabling. She offers concrete ways to design environments, prepare asks, and let helpers feel effective.
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Growth Mindset Powers Sustained Leadership
- Growth mindset keeps leaders adaptable amid constant change and transformation.
- Heidi Grant repeats a personal mantra: "It's not about being good, it's about getting better" to reorient after setbacks.
Replace Habits By Defining Replacement Actions
- Replace bad habits by specifying what you will do instead of what you'll stop.
- Heidi recommends tiny concrete actions (e.g., when you get a task, do one small step) and set exact when/where details.
Realistic Optimism Predicts Success
- Realistic optimism beats blind optimism: expect obstacles while believing you'll succeed.
- Study showed people who expected success but anticipated difficulty lost more weight than those expecting easy success.
