CRASHING INTO POTENTIAL
Have you crashed into your potential? My name is Scott B Harris and I am the author of the book, CRASGING INTO POTENTIAL: Living with my injured brain. At the ripe old age of 23, I came face to face with adversity, when I crashed my KTM 450 dirtbike into a mate. This left me with lasting injuries including severe brain damage, paralysis, and the use of only one arm. This was the start of my new life. Since that fateful day, I have been clawing my way back into a society that accepts me for who I am and not for who I WAS (and by "Society", I mean myself. I had to learn how to accept MYSELF in my new life with all my imperfections). Come with me and learn how to be resilient in the face of adversity and crash into your own potential.
CRASHING INTO POTENTIAL
EP.23 – WORKING WITH THE PYGMALION EFFECT
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In this week’s episode I share with the audience an interesting concept I’ve discovered, which is called The Pygmalion Effect. The research was first conducted in the 1960s and has been proven to lift the standards of the people that we are teaching, or coaching or instructing to do a certain thing.
Robert Rosenthal led a team in studying the effects that a teacher has on their disciples. To start they gave 2 groups of students, 2 groups of rats, and had them teach the rats how to get through a maze. They told group A that they were given “MAZE BRIGHT RATS” and group B that they were given “MAZE DULL” rats.
Well, it turns out that the rats that performed the best in the maze were the ones that had been selected as the advantaged one. Because the rats were selected at random, it all came down to the faith that the teacher had in them.
Robert then rationalized that this would be the same in the classroom. They took this experiment into an elementary school and did the same thing. They tested the students at the start of the year and told the teachers that a select few were predicted to be academic bloomers. When they came back a year later, the students that had been selected (at random) as the “academic bloomers”, had proven to once again be the ones that had bloomed.
The reason for this came down to 4 factors:
1. The Climate Factor – The warmth of the teacher towards the academic bloomer
2. The Input Factor – The amount of input the teachers put in with these students
3. The response Factor – The space the teacher gave the bloomers to respond
4. The Feedback Factor – The amount of well-constructed feedback that was given
There have been skeptics over the years that have said that there were too many variables to the data, but time and time again this concept has been proven. In 2009 a workplace study of The Pygmalion Effect found that employees responded favorably to their boss’s expectations.
This idea can be taken into the classroom, workplace, your team that you’re coaching, or your parenting style if need be. You can use this anytime you are teaching anyone to do anything.
Click HERE to see a video interview with Robert Rosenthal
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