Creating an environment where employees can perform at their best is not only a corporate responsibility but also a driver of business success. Creating such an environment often requires a cultural shift—a transformation in the mindset and habits of leaders and employees.
Achieving such a transformation is no easy task. And this struggle has been made more difficult than ever by an increasingly globalized and diverse workforce. This includes companies whose employees work overseas or collaborate with overseas colleagues, or who have seen an influx of young, female, foreign, etc. employees. The question of how to optimize company culture in a way that promotes inclusion—that is, how to leverage individual strengths from a diverse workforce—is something with which many companies understandably struggle.
MindShift Japan is here to help. We offer four training programs, each of which touches on crucial management challenges in the effort to optimize transformation and inclusion: Growth Mindset, Multiplier Leadership, Wellbeing, and Cross-cultural Understanding. These programs will provide insights and strategies which managers and HR can use to support the development of their diverse workforce—drawing content from research, and our trainer’s decades of real-world experience.
MindShift Japan Founder & Trainer
Life is a journey defined by our Mindset. Changing our mindset, changes life’s experiences.
Dr. Melissa Tarantola
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology & Trainer
Psychological Safety is the key to unlocking performance in your team.
Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset
“Growth Mindset” describes a way of viewing challenges and one’s own abilities. Decades of research has shown that when employees have a Growth Mindset, they grow and learn faster. This allows organizations to better utilize the unique talents of each employee, and to maximize employee adaptation to cultural change initiatives.
Far from an abstract concept – researchers have mapped out concrete, actionable strategies that anyone can use to develop a Growth Mindset. Mindshift’s Growth Mindset training teaches these practical methods. The training can also be customized to address issues specific to female employees.
What You Will Learn:
What You Can Expect to Take Away:
Participants will learn how to adopt a Growth Mindset, and managers will learn how to cultivate it in their supervisees. Participants will have a more proactive attitude towards self-improvement and overcoming challenges, and feel better able to address internal struggles. They will notice that they learn and improve faster, and adapt to change more easily.
Target Audience:
Managers, management candidates, and employees who are young and/or female
Multiplier Leadership vs the Deminisher
A fundamental challenge for organizations is understanding how to maximize each employee’s potential. That is, ensuring each employee is contributing at the highest level so money is not wasted hiring additional personnel. And ensuring each employee feels satisfied because their unique talents are being appreciated and utilized.
One of the key factors driving maximization of employee potential is leadership. A style of leadership known as Amplifying Leadership can increase employee output 2x while simultaneously promoting job satisfaction, as shown by research done with thousands of leaders and employees across levels and industries.
This research also identified the central behaviors and attitudes that embody the Amplifying Leadership style. Mindshift’s Amplifying Leadership training breaks this method down into practical techniques that will empower your managers to adopt this impactful leadership style.
What You Will Learn:
What You Can Expect to Take Away:
See a significant increase in employee output without increasing workload. Start utilizing untapped talent already present in your organization. Watch as your teams start taking more initiative and driving projects independently. Find it easier to generate productive discussion and innovative ideas. Notice your employees reporting more job satisfaction because they feel valued and stimulated by work challenges.
Target Audience:
New managers, managers struggling with team development, HR teams who have hit their headcount limit but need more work done
Well-Being
Wellbeing That Works: Powering Performance Through People
The most productive, dedicated, and creative employees are the ones with the highest levels of wellbeing at work. This assertion is backed up by mountains of scientific research showing a strong connection between employee wellbeing and performance.
Employees benefit too! Most adults spend more than one-fourth of their waking hours on their jobs, and work is one of the central places where they can find meaning and purpose. Thus, one of the most valuable experiences in life is the opportunity to work at a supportive company.
It can be difficult to understand how to unlock performance by supporting employee wellbeing–especially when trying to meet the needs of a diverse workforce.
But there is good news: research shows that many of the steps needed to boost employee well-being also enhance performance–and these strategies work across cultures and industries.
MindShift’s Wellbeing That Works training unveils these powerful, evidence-based methods, equipping you to unlock both employee wellbeing and top-notch job performance in a diverse workforce.
What You Will Learn:
What You Can Expect to Take Away:
You can optimize improvement efforts by focusing resources on strategies that enhance not only employee wellbeing but also performance. You will feel more confident when you communicate with employees, and find it easier to form positive relationships. Your team will waste less time on drama and relational issues. Employees will learn faster, more flexibly respond to novel issues, and spend less time recovering from mistakes. You will find it easier to elicit innovative ideas and productive discussion. Employees will be more willing to take initiative and put more effort into their work. And importantly, employees will be more satisfied with their jobs, more committed to the company, and look forward to coming to work.
Target Audience:
Managers, HR, and teams aiming to improve workplace well-being
Cross-Cultural Understanding and Adaptation
Increasing globalization means it is more necessary than even to understand how to work smoothly with diverse colleagues. That is, how to collaborate, communicate, and connect with people who have different backgrounds and cultures. For example, how to succeed when working with foreigners, women, or mid-career hires. Or, how to adapt when working abroad.
MindShift’s Cross-Cultural Understanding and Adaptation training equips managers and employees with practical tools to thrive in diverse settings. This engaging program dives into managerial approaches for leading diverse teams smoothly and effectively, and easy-to-use strategies that will help employees navigate cultural differences. Finally, this training can be customized to cultures of most relevance (for example, “Japan-Italy” for collaboration with an Italian company).
What You Will Learn:
Expected Outcomes:
Participants gain a deeper understanding of communication gaps, differences in thinking and work approaches, and manager-subordinate dynamics across cultures. This enhances adaptability, reduces misunderstandings and conflicts, and promotes smoother communication and task execution.
Target Audience:
Employees preparing for or on overseas assignments, managers with foreign subordinates, employees working with foreign colleagues, global sales teams, or domestic employees working with foreign nationals
As a certified external instructor, MindShift Japan has delivered ‘Growth Mindset & Multiplier Leadership ’ and ‘Cross-Cultural Understanding and Adaptation’ to over 1,500 participants, with regular sessions held at Authentic Leader's Academia
MindShift Japan’s ‘Growth Mindset and Inner Confidence for Success ’ lecture for women’s career development has been so well-received that we’ve held it multiple times at Women in Technology Japan
