Where to fill the glass?

Not long after starting Weagree, I met a very remarkable person, Nils Roemen. Nils is the inventor of the Twitter hashtag #durftevragen (dare to ask): he believes that anything is possible, and can connect people like no one else. Nils approaches the world as one of abundance.

How to tap into the abundance

Search YouTube for ‘Nils Roemen’ and you’ll find a stream of his positivity, telling life-changing success stories. These are stories that could be yours. If only you knew how to tap into the abundance that our world offers.

Nils considers experimenting essential for making progress and a condition for being successful. He would define “success” to be your personal experience of happiness. In his TEDx talks, Nils explains that life is an adventure, and he will help you live your dream.

The glass and the fixed mindset

The metaphor of half-full or half-empty glass is well known. It's a metaphor for your mindset: are you a positive thinker or a doomsayer? How do you approach your current state of being, positive or negative?

Unfortunately, both are of a fixed mindset. Either approach is not forward-looking, let alone experimenting. Being positive does not tell you where to go, and it does not even encourage you to move forward.

The glass and the growth mindset

To transform legal services delivery and optimise your legal operations – you need to move forward: embrace a growth mindset. It is not enough to look at your current state of being 'merely' with a positive mind.

To transform successfully, start experimenting: discover what works and what does not. Do it in small steps. Connect with team members and do it together. Create your personal success story, going forward.?

Where to fill the glass

A growth mindset is fundamental for changing behaviour successfully: to explore where to fill the glass. A growth mindset is emotional (one of three dimensions of successful change management). Like getting motivated by shrinking the change steps. Like engaging your team members by finding their feelings.

When your team is thirsty, they will discover where to fill the glass: where is the tap? They might dare to ask others or will discover themselves by experimenting.

A growth mindset is emotional. Treat it as such, and dare to ask #daretoask

Establishing your team to embrace a growth mindset is one of the nine parameters of our framework for successful change management. We have an abundance of examples on how to achieve this with legal technology, in case you do not dare to contact Nils. - How to let your people grow

If you would like to learn more about our framework for successful change management and how to experiment, contact us.