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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Redirect Your Thoughts to Improve Your Reality

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What you expect from your teams, you help bring about: believing in them helps them grow.

Discover the effects of the self-fulfilling prophecy. Replace negative beliefs with positive expectations, and watch behaviours and results change.

25 min at your own paceAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites

You will walk away with

  • the mechanism of the self-fulfilling prophecy, illustrated by the placebo effect
  • the Pygmalion effect for driving success — yours and other people's
  • a method for replacing a limiting belief with an empowering one

Target audience

Anyone looking to improve their quality of life and relationships

Learning objectives

  1. Use the self-fulfilling prophecy to boost self-confidence
  2. Draw on the Pygmalion effect to drive success
  3. Replace a limiting belief with a positive one to shape your reality for the better.
  4. Understand the driving, self-fulfilling effect of a belief that pushes us to change our behaviour

Module outline

  • StorytellingRoger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile1'30The story of an athlete who broke the 4-minute mile barrier through sheer conviction
  • Articles
    • Case study: The story of Southwest Airlines and its CEO Herb Kelleher
    • Chasing away the prophets of doom
    • Capitalising on the prophets of good fortune
  • Expert videoThe Self-Fulfilling Prophecy10'34Understanding the mechanism and impact of the self-fulfilling prophecy, illustrated by the placebo effect
  • AnchoringA quiz and True/False questions to dig deeper into the topic and anchor what you've learned
  • Memo cardA downloadable coaching memo card: the key points from the expert video
  • CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment

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