From Half Empty to Half Full: Using A Growth Mindset to Lead Your Team and Yourself (FR450)

The field of hospice and palliative care is undergoing many changes. This can lead to predictable conflicts and tension as a team attempts to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity. A fixed mindset is a rigid one, and change can precipitate resistance and negativity. A growth mindset embraces change as rich in opportunity, encourages people to give their best effort, creates openness to feedback, leads to increased learning from others, and perpetuates a cycle of growth and development. It has been shown that a growth mindset helps us persist in the face of setbacks, learn from failures, look for new opportunities, and build capacity to manage ambiguity and uncertainty.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 25, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Gail Gazelle, Avani Prabhakar, Kerry Oconnor, Allison E. Jordan, William L. Johnson, Paul L. DeSandre Source Type: research