Enabling people and organizations to achieve maximum results using the Growth Mindset
The Growth Mindset is a crucial enabler for anyone seeking success in life or any organization striving to lead in business. Practicing and training the Growth Mindset turns the almost impossible into possible through consistent practice while using research proven tools and right strategy over time. It can transform people lives, businesses, universities, and parenting approaches.
Growth Mindset is a concept developed by psychologist Professor Carol Dweck at Stanford University. Her work primarily focuses on motivation, personality, and developmental psychology, with her most notable contribution being the development of the Growth Mindset concept. Dweck observed that people have different attitudes toward challenges and failure: some believe their abilities are fixed (fixed mindset), while others believe abilities can be developed through effort and learning. Through experiments with students, she found that those who believe in the possibility of developing their abilities demonstrate greater resilience, perseverance, and success. She called this way of thinking a "growth mindset" and emphasized the importance of positive feedback that encourages effort rather than just outcomes. Her research has influenced education, business, and personal development worldwide.
Carol Dweck first introduced her research on growth mindset in her seminal book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, published in 2006. Many companies have implemented the growth mindset as part of their corporate culture, including Microsoft, Google, P&G, and Unilever.
"The value of research of Carol Dweck extends way beyond the world of education. It is just relevant for business people who wants to cultivate talent and for parents who want to raise their kids to thrive on challenge" - Bill Gates
Services
We work differently from others, with a strong emphasis on practice and real-world examples based on experience in the last 30+ years. We believe in hard work, effort and the guidance of experts with proven experience. We address people and organization’s specific challenges while simultaneously creating opportunities for long-term success. As in 30+ years of experience, results always remain the ultimate measure of success.
"By applying the Growth Mindset daily, we can achieve results and success, regardless of how we define success."
Growth Mindset – Commercial sales - for sales people who are selling products and services to commercial sector
Increase sales performance by adopting advanced sales skills rooted in the Growth Mindset. In this program, your sales teams will learn how to adapt, drive change, maximize every sales opportunity, and continually unlock market potential while achieving business goals. Through this training, sales professionals become more proactive, innovative, and efficient in every step of the sales process.
Growth Mindset – Negotiation
Success in negotiation lies in excellent communication skills, adaptability, and a creative yet systematic approach to preparation. This program teaches your negotiators how to approach negotiations with greater confidence and flexibility, using techniques that achieve outstanding results even in the most demanding situations. The outcome is increased profitability and long-term business relationships.
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Growth Mindset – Public sector sales - for sales people who are selling products and services to public sector
Increase sales performance by adopting advanced sales skills rooted in the Growth Mindset. In this program, your sales teams will learn how to adapt to public sector velocity, drive change in public sector, maximize every sales opportunity specific to public sector, and continually unlock market potential in public sector while achieving business goals. Through this training, sales professionals become more proactive, innovative, and efficient in every step of the sales process working with public sector accounts. Also, we will work on understanding compliance and regulatory limitations while keeping company compliance. Some of the salespeople are lobbyists, and there is a different approach when you are lobbying.
Growth Mindset – Leadership Culture
Build a culture within your organization based on the Growth Mindset, where employees view obstacles as opportunities for growth and mistakes as learning experiences. This program helps leaders create an environment that motivates employees, fosters collaboration, and enhances engagement, resulting in increased productivity and workplace satisfaction.
Growth Mindset – Building Through Painting
In collaboration with an academic painter, we will prove that using the Growth Mindset, you can independently create a painting within two hours. Don’t believe it? Neither did others—until they tried it. Feel free to call and check it out.
What Makes Our Training & Consultancy Unique?
Improved Business Results
All our training and consultancy programs focus on enhancing business outcomes and employee satisfaction. Your teams will see tangible improvements in results by developing advanced skills rooted in the Growth Mindset, fostering proactive and innovative thinking, and building mental resilience. Negotiators will become more effective in achieving desired outcomes, leading to measurable success.
Increased Employee Satisfaction through implementation of Growth Mindset culture inside organization
Building a Growth Mindset culture within the company creates an environment where employees feel motivated, engaged, and satisfied. This reduces stress and burnout while increasing productivity, creativity, and retention of top perfomer.
Long-Term Success
Through continuous investment in developing different skills through adopting the Growth Mindset, your organization will become more resilient to challenges, innovative, and competitive in the market. A well-established Growth Mindset culture ensures the long-term stability of the company and its results.
About
My name is Mladen Milavic and I help companies and individuals improve their business outcomes and increase employee satisfaction through education, training, coaching, mentoring, and consulting. By utilizing innovative Growth Mindset approaches based on the scientific research of Prof. Carol Dweck from Stanford University, I assist in creating a corporate culture that fosters excellence, high levels of responsibility, autonomy, and resilience to sudden changes, enabling companies to achieve outstanding results.
With 30+ years of experience in sales, leading sales teams, negotiation, and management, and a decade of expertise in applying the Growth Mindset, I bring completely new skills and innovative strategies that reliably transform and accelerate business, encourage creativity, and motivate teams to reach their maximum potential—because in the end, results are what matter. Proven experiences validate this approach, making collaboration possible on a results-driven basis, ensuring your investment in our engagement is failure-proof.
"Biography"
• 30+ years of business experience; core competencies: Growth Mindset, sales, negotiation, and team management.
• 16 years at Microsoft, 3 years at SAP, 3 years at A1, Mercuri International, RBA, etc.
• Roles: Executive Manager, Sales Manager, Senior Executive Sales Manager, Key Account Sales Manager; Business and Soft Skills Trainer & Consultant.
• Territories: Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Moldova, Georgia, Albania, Kosovo.
• Sales/negotiation contracts ranging from $1,000 to well over $20 million per contract and recognized as one of the most experienced negotiator with governments in the region.
Managed more than $100 Milion sold products and services in career
• Consistently overachieved quotas in various corporations and industries.
• Member of the Microsoft Platinum Club (top 300 employees - globally) and Microsoft Gold Club twice (top 2,000 employees out of 100,000 globally).
• Top 4 - "Rookie of the Year" (2022) at SAP for the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region.
• In addition to a university degree, completed 300+ days of official extra education programs, with certifications from INSEAD, LSE, Wharton, and others.
• Certified NLP Master Practitioner and Mensa membership
Hobbies: Working with children on Growth Mindset and Emotional Intelligence (EQ); sports: TRX and calisthenic
Podcasts
1. Kako izgraditi Growth Mindset?
2. BUILD2GROW - Growth Mindset
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