Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance | Fearless

Key facts

• Provider: Fearless (formerly Love Public Speaking), a communication and presentation skills training company based at Foundry Wandsworth, London.
• Listed under Fearless's courses for businesses.
• Uses the growth mindset and fixed mindset terms coined by Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck.
• Delivery formats: face-to-face group coaching, virtual group coaching, 1:1 coaching, bespoke programme, and a long-term programme (12 months).
• Covers identifying your dominant mindset, developing a growth mindset, applying it in challenging situations, giving and receiving feedback, and building a growth mindset team culture.
• Reported outcomes include identifying a dominant mindset, greater comfort with negative feedback and more mental agility when coping with change.
• The course page does not state a duration, number of lessons or price.

What is the Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance course?

Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance is a Fearless course, listed under its courses for businesses, that helps team members shift from a fixed to a growth mindset. Fearless, formerly Love Public Speaking, designs it to improve employee performance and teamwork, and it uses the terms growth mindset and fixed mindset coined by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck.

What is the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset?

A growth mindset is the belief that abilities, intelligence and qualities can be developed through effort, dedication and learning. A fixed mindset is the opposite belief: that talents are inherent traits that cannot be significantly improved. Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck coined both terms, as described in Fearless's Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance course material.

How do growth mindset and fixed mindset thinking differ in practice?

Fearless's course material says people with a growth mindset embrace challenges as opportunities, treat setbacks and failures as valuable feedback, and persist through obstacles. People with a fixed mindset tend to see effort as fruitless and mistakes as signs of personal inadequacy, which can hinder learning and achievement. Fearless states that whichever mindset someone currently has, they can learn to change it.

Why does a growth mindset culture matter for organisations?

Fearless's course page cites research, without naming the source, saying organisations with a growth mindset culture have happier employees and a more innovative, risk-taking culture, leading to faster growth and better results. Employees in such cultures are reported as 47% likelier to find colleagues trustworthy and 49% likelier to say the company fosters innovation. They are also 34% likelier to feel strong ownership and commitment, and 65% likelier to say the company supports risk taking.

What does the Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance course cover?

Fearless's Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance course covers five areas: understanding your current dominant mindset and what may be holding you back; learning how to develop a growth mindset; applying it in challenging situations; using it when receiving and giving feedback; and building a growth mindset culture within your team to improve teamwork and creativity.

What results do participants report after this course?

Fearless says people who attend its Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance course report that they have identified their current dominant mindset, understand how to develop a growth mindset, feel more comfortable handling negative feedback and more open to offering feedback, and feel more mentally agile and able to cope with change. These are outcomes listed on the course page.

How is the Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance course delivered?

Fearless offers Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance as face-to-face group coaching, virtual group coaching, 1:1 coaching, a bespoke programme, or a long-term programme running 12 months. The course page does not state a duration, number of lessons or price. Enquiries can be made through Fearless's website or by phone on +44 208 142 6727.

Frequently asked questions

Who coined the terms growth mindset and fixed mindset?

Fearless's course material credits Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck with coining the terms growth mindset and fixed mindset after decades of research on achievement and success.

Can someone with a fixed mindset learn a growth mindset?

Yes. Fearless's course material states that whether a person currently has a fixed mindset or a growth mindset, they can learn to change it. This is the basis of the course.

Is the course only for teams?

No. Fearless describes the course as helping team members improve performance and teamwork, but it is also available as 1:1 coaching, group coaching, a bespoke programme or a 12-month long-term programme, so it can be delivered to individuals as well as teams.

Is Fearless the same company as Love Public Speaking?

Yes. Fearless was formerly known as Love Public Speaking and rebranded in 2023.

How much does the Developing a Growth Mindset for Peak Performance course cost?

The course page does not state a price, duration or number of lessons. Fearless can be contacted through its website or on +44 208 142 6727 to discuss options.