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Building a Growth Mindset Culture of Feedback in High-Performing Teams

By November 7, 2025No Comments

In today’s fast-changing workplaces, high-performing teams don’t just deliver—they learn, adapt and improve continuously. Building a growth mindset culture of feedback is the cornerstone of sustainable high performance.
The most successful leaders know the secret: combine a growth mindset with a culture of feedback to create teams that thrive under pressure, embrace challenge and turn mistakes into insight.

What Is a Growth Mindset Feedback Culture?

A growth mindset is the belief that abilities and intelligence can be developed through effort, feedback and learning (Dweck, 2006).
A feedback culture means feedback flows freely—across teams, not just top-down—and is focused on improvement rather than evaluation (Cogendo, 2024).

When these two come together, feedback becomes fuel for performance. People stop fearing mistakes and start asking, What can I learn? That mindset shift is at the heart of high-performing, psychologically safe teams (Edmondson, 2019).

Why It Matters

Organisations with growth-mindset cultures are more innovative, collaborative and resilient (McKinsey, 2024).
They recover faster from setbacks, adapt more effectively to change, and sustain engagement over time (Radu et al., 2023).
When feedback is linked to development—not judgement—teams unlock creativity and continuous improvement.

Five Ways to Build a Growth Mindset Culture of Feedback

  1. Model learning at the top. Leaders who ask for feedback show that growth is valued, not perfection (Reynolds-Frost, 2025).
  2. Create psychological safety. Encourage open discussion, mistakes and experimentation (Edmondson, 2019).
  3. Make feedback regular. Use short, frequent “What went well / Even better if” check-ins to normalise dialogue (Cogendo, 2024).
  4. Frame feedback for growth. Focus on the future: “What could we try next?” rather than “What went wrong?” (Insights, 2023).
  5. Celebrate effort and improvement. Recognise progress and learning behaviours as much as outcomes (NJIT, 2024).

Building a Growth Mindset Culture of Feedback: The Takeaway

Building a growth mindset culture of feedback isn’t a one-off initiative—it’s a daily habit.
When leaders model curiosity, when feedback is safe and actionable, and when learning is celebrated, teams become self-improving.

At Planet Positive Change, we help organisations cultivate resilient, high-performing teams through evidence-based approaches drawn from psychology, leadership science and real-world practice. To find out more about our sustainable high performing teams courses get in touch with us here.

Because in the end, feedback isn’t a threat—it’s a gift.

References

  • Cogendo (2024). The Role of Feedback in Shaping High-Performing Teams.
  • Dweck, C. (2006). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Random House.
  • Edmondson, A. (2019). The Fearless Organisation: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Wiley.
  • Insights (2023). Eight Steps to Achieve a Growth Mindset in Your Team.
  • McKinsey & Company (2024). Cracking the Code of Team Effectiveness.
  • NJIT (2024). Five Reasons High-Performance Teams Need a Growth Mindset.
  • Radu et al. (2023). Fostering a Positive Workplace Culture: Impacts on Performance and Agility. ResearchGate.
  • Reynolds-Frost, S. (2025). Cultivating a Growth Mindset: Strategies for Building High-Impact Teams. Pacific International.