The Importance of Mindset Training

Although traditional business skills are important, their effect is limited by our lack of well being or clarity. Mindset training works at developing this clarity and well being as well as innovation, creativity and production.

Research from the United States of America and Canada has shown a 70% differential between companies that are productive and those that are not, is a direct result of attitude or mindset.

A martial arts teacher taught a group of students in Taiwan to get them prepared for a tournament in Europe. The teacher attributed their outright success at the tournament to their mindset and awareness training. You can have all the business skills or sporting skills in the world, but without mindset training your chances of ongoing success are greatly reduced.

As business professionals we make a constant stream of choices and the perception might be to focus on mindset training once our business is up and running. But why not integrate mindset training from the outset? 

Then if something doesn't go according to plan, instead of using the built-in fight or flight response, we have the clarity and perspective to deal with the situation with greater intelligence and maturity.

The martial arts teacher had this insight according to the premise that if you leave it up to the students they would only focus on mindset at the end of training, by which time apparent flaws in their behavior or logic of thinking might start to negatively impact results. There’s a direct link between mindset training and well being and productivity.

What does mindset training involve? It involves awareness training, developing clarity and well being, mastering states of consciousness that limit development, and working at being more relaxed, open and flowing so you are able to respond faster and with more accuracy.

Traditionally, when something goes wrong, we tend to believe that a contracted state of consciousness will result in faster reactions. This is not the case; being more relaxed results in better, faster and more effective decision making. Ask Michael Phelps if it’s better if he’s more relaxed or nervous before a race and 100% of the time he will tell you; more relaxed.

Mindset is determined by your level of psychological agility and flexibility which has a direct impact on creativity, innovation and productivity. Not only will this generate more revenue, but you’ll have more fun in generating profits while making difference.