strategise / growth mindset in times of change

TLDR
For teams adapting to major change or going through uncertainty. Helps you replace defensiveness with curiosity using growth mindset principles to stay aligned, adaptive and forward-looking through disruption.

Change comes in many forms: merger, cuts, reorganisation or rapid growth. Each brings disruption, and with it the risk of teams falling into fixed patterns: resisting new approaches, avoiding risk or assuming what worked before will work again.

This training programme helps teams replace fixed-mindset behaviours with growth-driven ones. Using the GC Index Team View and growth mindset principles, we support teams to see change as an opportunity to learn, test, adapt and improve. The result is a team that embraces challenge, iterates quickly and stays strategically aligned, whether resources are shrinking or expanding.

    • To embed growth mindset principles into team strategy and collaboration: seeing effort, feedback and setbacks as pathways to improvement

    • To use the GC Index to reveal the team’s natural energy and how it can be channelled towards new priorities

    • To replace fixed-mindset behaviours (protecting turf, fearing mistakes) with growth-driven behaviours (curiosity, experimentation, constructive challenge)

    • To create a shared strategic direction that balances ambition with adaptability

    • To build habits that sustain alignment and learning beyond the immediate period of change

    • A team that approaches change with curiosity rather than defensiveness

    • Greater willingness to test ideas, learn from results and refine quickly

    • Improved alignment around strategy, with clarity on how everyone contributes

    • A culture where feedback is welcomed and effort is valued as part of progress

    • A practical action plan rooted in experimentation and iteration, not rigid control

  • Step 1 – GC Index Team View
    Profiles mapped into a visual Team Impact View, showing how the team naturally contributes and where it may need to stretch or adapt.

    Step 2 – Full-Day Workshop: Strategy with a Growth Lens
    The team explores how fixed vs growth mindsets show up under pressure, applies GC Index insights and creates strategic priorities built on experimentation and learning.

    Step 3 – Monthly Drop-Ins
    1-hour virtual sessions where the team works on live challenges, deliberately practising growth mindset behaviours (testing, iterating, giving and receiving feedback).

    Step 4 – Half-Day Consolidation
    Three months later, a structured session to review progress, reflect on learning, and reset priorities with the same growth-driven approach.

  • 09:30 – Welcome and Context
    Change as the constant: framing growth mindset as a tool for progress

    09:45 – Fixed vs Growth in Teams
    How beliefs about ability shape behaviour in strategy, decision-making and collaboration

    10:30 – GC Index Team View
    Mapping collective energy and exploring where growth opportunities lie

    11:15 – Break

    11:30 – Strategy through a Growth Lens
    Applying “effort, feedback, setbacks, challenge” as levers for strategic thinking

    12:30 – Lunch

    13:15 – Real-World Challenges
    Working on current issues, applying growth mindset tools to generate and test options

    14:15 – Experimentation and Iteration
    Designing small tests, safe to fail but rich in learning

    15:00 – Break

    15:15 – Feedback as Fuel
    Building team norms for open, constructive feedback that accelerates progress

    16:00 – Commitments and Next Steps
    Clarity on what the team will do differently tomorrow

    16:30 – Close

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Teamshaper's Strategise training module