This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Growth mindset is usually sold as a belief. Accept that ability is not fixed, and the rest follows. It does not. Belief without mechanics changes nothing except how you feel about not changing.

Why the courses you started did not stick

Look at the last three things you set out to learn. Most likely you finished none, or finished one and never used it. That is not a discipline problem. There is a well-studied reason knowledge fails to reach the job, there are sixteen identified factors that determine whether it does, and almost nobody applies any of them to their own learning because that material is taught to people who design training for others. I spent years starting things and concluding I lacked willpower, when what I actually lacked was a design.

What this course actually covers

Four blocks. First, an honest audit and then eleven lessons on what people the company considers its strongest actually do: managing upward, overdelivering in a way that is visible, working in cycles rather than lists, sustaining your own motivation, and communicating so you are understood the first time. Second, emotional intelligence, because resilience is not a temperament — it is the ability to notice a reaction before it becomes a decision. Third, the science of learning: how adults actually learn, why transfer fails, what support afterwards does, and how to evaluate whether anything changed. Fourth, ten lessons of coaching — listening, powerful questions, working with barriers and motivation.

A note on two of the blocks

Twenty of the thirty-nine lessons were recorded for people who develop others: the learning block for those who design training, the coaching block as a method for working with a client. Used on yourself, both are more useful than the advice written for self-improvement. The learning science explains why your previous attempts did not hold. The coaching apparatus works when you are both the coach and the client, and it works better once you have seen how the conversation is supposed to go.

Who is teaching this

I am Mike Pritula. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn, and I have worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank. More than 1.6 million students have enrolled in my courses across 185 countries, and over 150,000 specialists have gone through my programmes. I hold PHRi and SHRM-CP certifications and represent HRCI in more than ten countries.

What is included

• Lifetime access to all 39 lessons

• Active instructor support in the Q&A section

• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

• Working material: the personal audit, the potential matrix, the Lencioni test, the transfer factors, the GROW model, the balance wheel, the active listening checklist

• Research from Gallup and Google on what actually separates strong performers

Where to start

Write down the last three things you tried to learn and what you can still do because of them. That list is your real starting point, and it is more useful than any assessment. Enrol now and start today.