Mindset for Collaboration

During the expert session, Rod Ben Zeev engages the audience by discussing the impact of mindset on growth and adaptation, using examples from renowned figures and interactive exercises. He introduces the concept of psychological safety in building high-performing teams and encourages participants to reflect on their own work environments. Throughout the session, Rod invites participants to join breakout rooms for activities that promote active listening, creativity, and connection-building. Additionally, he shares stories that highlight the importance of a growth mindset, particularly when dealing with mistakes.

• Cultivating a Growth Mindset: Embrace challenges and see effort as essential for personal growth and development. Recognize your potential to learn new skills and adapt, like Michael Jordan and Thomas Edison did in their careers.
• Building Psychological Safety: Create an environment where individuals feel comfortable sharing ideas and taking risks, leading to innovation and better decision-making. Use tactics such as active listening, understanding problems, and fostering connections to build psychological safety within your teams.
• Ideating Effectively: Allow ideas to flourish by being in the "yes" mode and using active listening to stimulate a second wave of creativity. Role play and think outside the box to generate innovative solutions to complex problems.

In this expert session led by Rod Ben Zeev, the theme revolves around the significance of mindset in personal growth and development. Rod distinguishes between fixed and growth mindsets, emphasizing that everyone encounters both throughout life. Individuals with a fixed mindset view abilities as predetermined and unchangeable, while those with a growth mindset embrace challenges and view effort as essential for improvement.

Throughout the session, Rod shares inspiring examples of figures like Michael Jordan and Thomas Edison, demonstrating how their resilience and dedication led to remarkable achievements. He underscores the importance of recognizing the value of hard work and embracing the learning process. Additionally, Rod introduces the Mentimeter app as a tool for interactive activities, encouraging participants to reflect on their mindsets and aspire towards growth.

Rod shares insights from Google's Project Aristotle, revealing that psychological safety, structure, dependability, meaning, and impact are crucial components of high-performing teams. He encourages participants to consider these factors in their work environments and teams to foster a more productive and collaborative workplace culture.

The session continues with Rod discussing the importance of psychological safety in fostering innovation and creativity within groups. He highlights that individuals may hesitate to share ideas in larger groups due to feelings of psychological danger, leading to groupthink or a blaming culture. In contrast, when psychological safety is present, individuals feel comfortable admitting mistakes, leading to better decision-making and innovation.

To create a psychologically safe environment, Rod suggests practices like assuming that people will be late to meetings and giving everyone an opportunity to speak at the beginning of a call. These practices help ensure equal representation in group discussions, allowing ideas to thrive. He also emphasizes the importance of understanding problems before jumping into solutions and encourages thoughtful problem-solving.

Rod shares anecdotes from renowned figures like NASA and conductor Benjamin Zander, demonstrating how fostering a psychologically safe environment can lead to remarkable achievements. As the session concludes, Rod emphasizes the importance of shifting perspective from shame to pride when dealing with mistakes.

The Growth Mindset (with breakout rooms)

In this 60 minute interactive session, Rod makes the case that the success or failure of everything we do depends on only one factor: being in the growth mindset. Using both the research of Stanford University's Carol Dweck and his own work on innovation and leadership with hundreds of organizations worldwide, Rod will guide participants to feel the advantages of the growth mindset and to develop tactics to be in this zone more effectively. By the end of the session, participants will have a shared vocabulary around the mindset, greater awareness of their individual strengths and weaknesses and a clear individual action plan. This session contains 2 breakout rooms.

Feedback (with breakout rooms)

How do you give and receive feedback? We often find it difficult to tell someone what we really think. And when we do, the receiver is not always open to it and in the end, nothing changes. What is the right way? Rod gives an interactive session full of insights about human behaviour. Based on true stories, some even with disastrous results, he shows how important it is that we are able to give each other feedback in the right way. Easy and fun exercises help you understand how you can give valuable feedback, so that both you and others can continue to grow, develop and learn. This session contains 2 breakout rooms.

• Really liked it, the hour flew by.
• It was great!
• Real good balance in interaction, a little more time to review an exercise with your partner would help even more.
• Liked the short simple but fun excercises.
• Loved the speaker, very interactive.
• Please continue doing this.
• Amazing. Hope the company can implement a part of this into our way of work! I will try do my part.
• Very good session, enthousiastic speaker.