8 Mindsets That Will Re-Shape The Future Of Work Experience

8 Mindsets That Will Re-Shape The Future Of Work Experience: Forbes Magazine by: Sesil Pir

In making sense of the world, we rely heavily on our frames of reference. These references, we call ‘mindsets’, are intrinsically correlated to our motivation and drive our decision making, day to day actions and self-determination.

In the field of psychology, we refer to mindset as a set of assumptions, methods, or notions held by one or more people. Mindsets are considered as deep and rooted beliefs and they can come in a variety of ways. This makes sense given we each come to life with unique genetic make-ups. We have different aptitudes, carry capabilities and capacities. That’s biodiversity – it’s kind of a given. From there, however, we have learned tendencies. From our early experiences, we formulate stories that continue to shape the way we see the world in front of us. Specifically, the way we frame situations and take in perspective tend to impact how we come to think, feel, and behave. Now, here is the catch: Depending on the primary mindsets, assumptions, notions and methods we hold, we end up displaying different sets of leadership styles. Depending on our awareness and ability to differentiate, we end up demonstrating a variety of behaviors that can impact the kind of climate we present for others and the organizational culture shapes our individual behaviors.

In our two-year collaborative study with Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), we discovered there are eight new mindsets that can have a positive climate effect inside organizations as opposed to pre-dominant mindsets pre-existing in the society and inside our workplaces. These mindsets include caring (over control), abundance (over scarcity), wellbeing (over welfare), productive (over defensive), interconnectedness (over self-oriented), collective (individual), growth (over fixed), and reflection (over action).

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