Recommended audience

Salespeople working across all industries and sectors

Type of audience

UK and International

Description

In the last video in our current Mentor Moments series, Phil Jones, managing director of Brother UK, looks at the importance of resilience to tackle the adversity, challenges and problems we can all face in our professional and personal lives. The mindset we adopt is key to the way we respond and the decisions we make.

Phil explains that if we gain "mastery of self" we can develop resilience and a growth mindset. This will help to build our self-awareness and emotional intelligence so we make better decisions and enjoy more success.

Key takeaways

• Why it is important to gain mastery of self, developing resilience and a growth mindset in order to adapt and thrive.
• The three important factors that influence our thinking and how to use these to be stronger.
• The growth mindset versus the fixed mindset, how to succeed by embracing the former and rejecting the latter.

CPD Points

CPD Points: One

Presenter

Phil Jones MBE FF.ISP, managing director of Brother UK

Phil Jones MBE is the managing director of Brother UK. Over a three-decade long career with the business, he has worked his way up from salesperson to managing director.

Phil started in sales as a trainee in 1991 but never imagined a career path to the top would have been possible.

He says: "Investing in self-awareness was the number one thing that allowed me to take that final step into a senior leadership role and ultimately to become the lead executive in the business."