Growth Mindset Action Plan

A senior director of product at a software company experienced a significant setback when a major product launch fell short of adoption targets and received critical feedback from the executive team. In the two sessions since, she has described the experience in polished, narrative form - coherent, emotionally articulate, and largely unchanged. She has named what went wrong, assigned responsibility clearly (including to herself), and expressed the lesson she took away. Her coach notices the narrative has not changed in two sessions. It is finished rather than open. The worksheet has not been used.

The structured format is the entry point for a client who has already told the story. 'You've described this clearly - I...