A Genie Gives You One Wish For Your Employees...

What do you wish for?

Obviously your team is made up of many different personality types, and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. But if you could rub your little brass lamp and a genie pops out in a cloud of genie smoke to grant you one wish for your employees, what would you wish for?

Better Skills? More Diversity?

Does your business have a culture of personal development (Growth mindset) ? Or is it a hot mess (Fixed mindset)?

Mental Stability? (yeah right!) Less Drama? (OMG! Not again!)

Or a better mindset?

A winning mindset? A mindset like yours?

Or better yet, a growth mindset?

Turns out, your employees' collective mindsets are like a rudder steering your overall morale and company culture. One Debbie Downer, and the whole team can get pulled down with her. And when your team is charged with producing profits, but they have a "poverty mindset", you may find that hitting your net profit goals is practically impossible.

Now if employees are the rudder, the owner is the helm. And an owner's mindset isn't always something to write home about. I mean, just because you have had some level of success, doesn't mean you have a growth mindset. You could have a fixed mindset, and someone at the helm of their ship with a fixed mindset can create a toxic enviorment, and cause a lot of turnover.

Carol Dweck, renowned for her two-decade study on mindset and author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, suggests that a fixed mindset can appear in several harmful ways. Employees with this mindset might shy away from new responsibilities or further development opportunities due to a fear of revealing their perceived limitations. This can suppress innovation and impede professional growth. And when an owner generates a fixed mindset culture, instead of growth mindset culture, the results are rarely good--the culture is heavy with negativity, things get ugly, growth is stiffled, training is below par, and your team is always looking for their next job (seriously, their just not telling you).

So what's the solution? How do you make your wish become reality? Well, it begins with education! But try getting your entire team to read Carol Dweck's book. It's a great book, and filled with incredible anecdotes, but not everyone learns by reading scientific studies. So how can you impliment a growth mindset into your organization? Answer: Through engaging training, repetition, and fun!

What do you think? Could an uptick in your team's mindset make your business run more smoothly and profitably? Are you ready to create of a culture of personal growth and development?

Mindset training is my hobby. It's what I do for fun. It's my mission. If you're interested in bringing my 2-hr, or 1/2-day seminar to your business to teach your team how to develop a growth mindset so you can increase team moral, improve profits, reduce turnover, and create a culture of growth and personal development, hit me up at jeffsmindsetmission@gmail.com

Jeff Bennington is an Amazon best-selling author, award-winning speaker, Boston Marathon qualifier, John Maxwell Certified Speaker/Coach and once upon a time, had a fixed mindset.