Throughout this course we learned how to change our perspective around leadership, realizing how it is a role within reach for each one of us. In this section we will learn some of the final pieces of a leader’s mindset that can help us begin this journey:

1. Visit the Balcony of Your Life
2. Develop an Experimental Mindset
3. Put Faith in Others
   

Let’s watch the following videos and come back for reflection questions.

We hope you took notes from that video, because these are very important tips you that can help you become a better leader. The following examples of these tips will help you understand the topic better:

Visit the Balcony of Your Life: In the face of challenges and failures, it becomes very difficult to keep a positive outlook. As we will discuss, when exploring the Growth Mindset, that we should view such situations as learning opportunities rather than be bogged down by them. In such a situation looking at the big picture, and keeping an eye on the long term objective, will help you see how you can alter your course to continue on your journey. For example, if a person, who wants to have an established business, fails at their first attempt to secure a client, they can look at the situation keeping their long term goal in mind. This will give them an opportunity to learn why they failed, and realize the things they need to change in order to succeed the next time around.

Develop an Experimental Mindset: When you are setting out on your journey to achieving your goal, you should know that you can always improve and you can always become better. As we discussed when exploring the Principle of Progress of Khudi, its important to know yourself, your abilities and your work, and constantly pushing these towards continuous improvement to be able to succeed. By adopting an experimental mindset you are opening yourself and your work to the possibilities of continuous improvement. Of course not all experiments will yield great results, but that is part of the learning process. In the examples above, the person will keep experimenting with a different way to secure clients for their business until they find the thing that works.

Put Faith in Others: You can't do everything alone. Our discussion from the Principles of Progress of Ek aur Ek Gyarah concluded that we always need the help of our network when we are working on great things. We can always achieve more together than we can alone. In order to work together however, we need to be able to trust out team members to do the right thing. We need to be able to put our faith in their ability to complete their task. In our examples above, the person running the business can only do so much alone. Eventually, they will have to bring other team members on board, so that they can target many more clients together.

REFLECTION QUESTION

Think of a time, when you or a leader you admire, has adopted one or more of the tips mentioned in this lecture. What was the situation in which they made use of these techniques, how did they go about it and what was the result like?