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Build a Growth Mindset & Career Success with Advice from Female Founders

AllBright via FutureLearn

Overview

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Develop a growth mindset and achieve your career goals

It takes more than hard skills and determination to achieve career success - you need a growth mindset, a set of entrepreneurial skills, and resilience.

Designed by women, for women, this course from AllBright focuses on developing the skills that female entrepreneurs are famous for.

Build your entrepreneurial mindset

Develop your career vision, resilience, and creativity to bring an entrepreneurial flair to all aspects of your professional life.

You don’t need to run your own business to benefit from these skills - this course is built to help you develop the right mindset, whether you’re a seasoned business owner or an employee in your very first job.

Career advice to take you to the top of your game

On this course, you’ll learn how to set clear goals that align with who you are and where you want to be.

Thinking like a founder will help you to identify opportunities wherever they arise. You’ll gain the confidence and skill set to chase down opportunities and ensure that you make the most of them. You’ll also define a career vision that it’s unique to you, and find out how to stick to it regardless of your situation.

Turn risks into rewards

Once you’ve learned how to use your creativity to turn challenges into opportunities, you’ll consider when you should take calculated risks. These skills involve assessing the risk itself, the opportunity within it, and how that aligns to your career vision.

This course is for businesswomen and aspiring or early-stage female founders of all ages and at all stages of their career journey who are ultimately looking to transform their mindset and move towards a more entrepreneurial way of thinking, working and leading.

By learning to think and work with a more open frame of mind, you can find new opportunities to supercharge your career. If you are feeling like you are plateauing at work and need a boost, or if you’re feeling dissatisfied at work, this course is the first step in helping you shape a way of working that challenges and excites you, ultimately opening up new opportunities to develop.

Syllabus

  • The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Why everybody needs one.
    • Welcome to the Course
    • Welcome to this Week
    • Identify and Cultivate your Entrepreneurial Mindset
    • Live your life with an Entrepreneurial Mindset
    • Take Care of The Entrepreneur Within
    • Bring Those Entrepreneurial Ideas to Life
    • 2 Inspiring Real-Life Stories
    • Everyday You
    • Chapter Summary & Resources
  • Mindset: It All Starts with You
    • Welcome to this Chapter
    • Dive Into Your Control Centre
    • Create your Reality
    • Receive Coaching: 'My Passport' Exercise
    • Embrace your Growth Mindset
    • Harness Criticism: 2 Real-life Stories
    • Hone A Healthy Mindset
    • Visualise: PROMA© Cycle Exercise
    • Everyday You
    • Chapter Summary & Resources
  • How to Stay True to your Vision?
    • Welcome to this Chapter
    • Define your Vision
    • Work on your Legacy
    • Listen to your Intuition
    • Receive Coaching to Deal with Fear of Failure
    • 2 Inspiring Real-Life Stories on Vision
    • Recognise what to learn or leave behind
    • Learn on the Job
    • Everyday You
    • Chapter Summary & Resources
  • Reframing Uncertain Circumstances and Taking Risks
    • Welcome to this Chapter
    • Shift your Mindset: Mindset Prisms
    • Reframe Uncertain Circumstances
    • Testimonies from 3 Successful Founders
    • Venture Into Your Discomfort Zone
    • Everyday You
    • Chapter Summary & Resources
    • Whole Course Summary
    • What's Up Next?

Taught by

Clare Dodd

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