5302 (Impact of the Growth Mindset)

Impact of the Growth Mindset

Growth mindset has recently become a facet worldwide where it is both prevalent in business enterprises and schools. The two significant areas explored in people's attitudes are growth and fixed perspectives. Most people tend to hold a fixed mindset where they feel that their skills and talents are predetermined and set. They cannot believe that talents and abilities can grow and develop over time into something more. Also, people with a fixed mindset feel that any mistake is a failure. A growth mindset makes individuals think that skills are dynamic, and they perceive problems to develop their intelligence. The paper focuses on developing a plan that introduces the fundamental ideas presented by Dr. Dweck as I support and develop a growth mindset in me and others within the organization.

Importance of a Growth Mindset

A growth mindset is critical in a person's life and an organization. Individuals with a growth mindset embrace challenges positively, understand how it takes effort to perfect something, take criticism completely, and are always persistent in what they are doing. A growth mindset also significantly impacts performance and improves achievements in the workplace (Yeager et al., 2019). It makes employees become good team players. With a growth mindset, employees in an organization will be motivated to improve and learn with feedback, willing to help others and share knowledge. They can adapt and change behaviors, attitudes, and skills faster.

Plan Development Incorporating Carol Dweck's Four Steps

Changing mindset demands that individuals identify a problem that triggers a fixed mindset. Carol Dweck highlighted steps that can help a person to change their perspective. The steps are learning to hear the voice of one's mindset, recognizing that one has a choice, talking back to the challenge with a growth mindset, and taking the growth mindset action (Jeffrey, 2020). My plan will focus on helping me alongside others in the organization develop a growth mindset by focusing on five steps: picking complex tasks, setting high standards, discouraging stack ranking, leading practices with a growth mindset, and considering receiving feedback. Choosing complex tasks will enable every individual to stretch themselves, giving them a sense of curiosity and courage developing their mindset. Setting high standards is crucial in changing people's mindset since human beings' implications give poor predictions of their best efforts and push them will surpass what they expected.

Discouraging stack ranking will be vital in ensuring the performance management process embraces regular feedback and conversation exchange among employees and management and fosters opportunities for professional development. Leading practices with a growth mindset within an organization by identifying and recognizing the departments and individuals applying a growth mindset is crucial in making the team more open to developing and learning new skills. Finally, considering receiving feedback is very vital. Individuals need to share feedback based on the effort they see and not on the natural ability of their colleagues. Individuals can easily explain the necessary steps to get to their level best upon getting feedback and supporting a growth mindset. All these steps and communications to either individuals or departments will be done during weekly meetings in the organizations. Some will be conveyed as the daily routine and culture of the organization.

Promoting Growth Mindset

Promoting growth calls for deliberate efforts. The constructs of intrinsic motivation and mindset are very important (Ng, 2018). The strategies necessary for promoting a growth mindset for oneself and others in an organization include normalizing struggle as a learning process, portraying challenges as exciting and fun, celebrating corrections and demonstrating mistakes, setting goals, and developing joint exercises. Working together through the shared goals and challenges by valuing process over results and sharing failures and success helps establish a culture that promotes a growth mindset. Charts and PowerPoint presentations will be the most effective ways that I will be using to promote a growth mindset, which will be conducted weekly during official meetings. A growth mindset impacts how I approach work in this course and the program. It increases the ability to enjoy learning new things, seeing failure as an opportunity to keep growing, and looking for situations to experiment.

References

Jeffrey, S., 2020. How to establish a growth mindset. CEO Sage. https://scottjeffrey.com/change-your-fixed-mindset/

Ng, B. (2018). The neuroscience of growth mindset and intrinsic motivation. Brain sciences, 8(2), 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci8020020

Yeager, D. S., Hanselman, P., Walton, G. M., Murray, J. S., Crosnoe, R., Muller, C & Dweck, C. S. (2019). A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement. Nature, 573(7774), 364-369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1466-y