Culture of Genius vs Culture of Development

A company's culture mindset is the belief that its employees have about the nature of talent and ability.

Culture of Genuis is a mindset manifests as a culture that views brilliance as critical to success, and where some people are seen as inherently more brilliant than others and which talent is worshipped.

This type of culture asserts that people either have it or they don’t when it comes to skills and learning capabilities.

Years of research have shown that cultures of development — rather than cultures of genius show higher levels of trust, empowerment, and grit. Instead of worshipping talent, people focus on improvement. They still measure outcomes, but only in relation to past performance.

Companies and teams that foster a growth mindset, actively seeking to stretch their employees and promote new skills. This type of team's culture asserts that people can grow and improve with effort, good strategies, and good mentoring. 

Culture of development versus a fixed mindset, affects cultural characteristics in teams such as collaboration, innovation, creativity, risk-taking, and ethical behaviors.

Trust

People in growth mindset teams have more trust in their team and a greater sense of ownership over their work.

Engagement

People in culture-of-development teams reported that they were more committed to their company and more willing to go the extra mile for it.

Innovation

People in culture-of-development teams are more likely to say that their organization supports (measured) risk-taking, innovation, and creativity.

 Ethics

People in the growth mindset culture of development teams disagreed more strongly than those in fixed-mindset companies that their companies were rife with unethical behavior.

 How to develop a growth mindset in your team?

As it is with everything, without action nothing happens here are some suggestions  for developing a growth mindset:

1. Praising Yet/ Invest in Development - Good talent is hard to find because the best talent is made as development is one of the most important employees engagement indicators, When there is more emphasis on the process and learning curve, and progress the system would instead reward sustained learning and greater perseverance.

2. Focus on Behavioral skills -Where every technical skill is one tutorial away, the behavioral skills are a competitive advantage, develop people as humans. 

2. Create collaborative learning opportunities -To learn and to improve should be a company-wide goal. Learning together in a supportive environment enables you to learn faster, builds relationships, and let everyone know that it is okay to ask for help.

3. Transparency and open communication-  People are reluctant to share what they know or trust each other since they feel trapped in a cut-throat environment., The goal is to enable a company to learn from mistakes and break knowledge silos Invest in creating safe space for people to step out of their comfort zone.

Any other ideas to implement a culture of development? Let us know on the comments bellow