Mindset Culture Climate Assessment

Every company, organization, classroom, team and group has a Mindset Culture that shapes its thoughts, feelings, behavior, and performance. But how often do organizations stop to ask: What kind of mindset culture are we cultivating—and is our culture helping us achieve our goals?

The first step toward building a stronger, more inclusive, and higher-performing organization is to understand your existing culture. That’s why we developed the Mindset Culture Climate Assessment—a powerful, research-backed tool that gives organizations a clear picture of how their employees perceive the culture around them, enabling leaders to make data driven decisions about ways to foster a culture where every employee thrives.

Why Invest in Building a Growth Mindset Culture?

Culture is a critical determinant of an organization’s success. It influences employee satisfaction and retention, business outcomes, and productivity. Organizations display their mindset culture through the way they communicate their beliefs about whether intelligence and ability are more fixed innate traits or more malleable qualities that can be developed and improved. And individuals within an organization can impact fixed or growth mindsets through their behavior as well.

The Mindset Culture Climate Assessment gives leaders the data they need by evaluating employee perceptions across multiple cultural dimensions that are critical to understanding team and organizational performance.

It's Important to Executives & Employees

  • 92% of senior executives believe that improving organizational culture would increase their firm’s value (Graham et al, 2017)
  • 88% of executives agree that a growth mindset is important for a company’s success (Graham et al, 2017)
  • 52% of employees said they would leave their current job for one that provides them with more opportunities for learning and development (TalentLMS, 2024)

Mindset Culture

The beliefs and behaviors shared by a company, organization, classroom, team, or group that signal what success is, how to achieve it, and who can be successful. Mindset culture is expressed through what culture creators (like managers and leaders) say and do, including the routine norms, policies, practices, and interpersonal interactions in those environments. 

Cultures of GROWTH

Growth-minded cultures—or Cultures of Growth—emphasize and embrace personal learning and growth through hard work, the use of effective strategies, and ample support. This in turn fosters collaboration, innovation and creativity, risk-taking and resilience, and integrity and ethical behavior within a group/organization.

Cultures of GENIUS

Fixed-minded cultures—or Cultures of Genius—communicate the idea that people’s abilities are unchangeable, or fixed. People either have what it takes to be successful or they don’t, and there’s little anyone can do to change this.

 

What We Measure

It takes only five minutes for employees to complete the survey, which encourages great participation and engagement results.

Every organization receives a comprehensive report with personalized insights that highlight where your organization falls on the mindset culture continuum between a fixed-minded Culture of Genius or a learning-oriented Culture of Growth and strategies for how to investigate the behaviors that contribute to the Culture of Growth or Genius across the dimensions below. 

  • ORGANIZATIONAL MINDSET: What does your organization communicate about the nature of intelligence, ability, and talent?
  • COLLABORATION: Does your organization encourage working together toward a shared vision or goal?
  • INNOVATION: How do you encourage individuals to be creative and try out big, new ideas, and where do you reinforce “business as usual”?
  • ETHICS AND INTEGRITY: Does your organization discourage unethical behavior and recognize learning and growth require transparency and honesty?
  • RISK-TAKING: How do you empower individuals to take appropriate risks? How do you support one another when risks don’t work out?
  • LEADER MINDSET: What do the leaders of your organization communicate about the nature of intelligence, ability, and talent?
  • EQUITY AND INCLUSION: Is it recognized that having different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences is essential for fostering broad, creative thinking and addressing the organization’s most significant challenges?

Ready to learn how your culture is experienced—and how it can evolve?

Connect with us to get started with the Mindset Culture Climate Assessment.

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