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Programme sheet
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Redirect Your Thoughts to Improve Your Reality
Management & LeadershipTeamwork & CooperationAll employees≈ 25 min
Key skill: The manager's role & stance
Summary
Our beliefs shape our results: what a manager expects from their team, they tend to bring about. This module teaches you to spot your limiting beliefs and replace them with expectations that support success.
Target audience
Anyone looking to improve their quality of life and relationships
Learning objectives
- Use the self-fulfilling prophecy to boost self-confidence
- Draw on the Pygmalion effect to drive success
- Replace a limiting belief with a positive one to shape your reality for the better.
- Understand the driving, self-fulfilling effect of a belief that pushes us to change our behaviour
Module outline
- StorytellingThe story of an athlete who broke the 4-minute mile barrier through sheer conviction
- ArticlesCase 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 videoUnderstanding 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
Models & methods
The self-fulfilling prophecy; the Pygmalion effect; the placebo effect; McGregor's Theory X-Y; the distinction between limiting and positive beliefs.
Research-based
Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson's experiment (1960s): 20% of randomly selected students went on to outperform (the Pygmalion effect). The Thomas theorem.