Cultural work in organizations is work on the collective mindset

Radical collaboration, transformation, new ways of thinking, digitalization – there is hardly a topic that is not moved and supported by mindset work. What is striking is that it is always about the mindset work of the individual employee. But can you really change an organizational culture by adding up the changes in individual mindsets?

The work on mindset that is currently gaining ground focuses primarily on individual patterns of perception, evaluation and assessment of situations. Using a variety of methods, individuals are given the opportunity to recognize their own predispositions in their encounters with the world and to understand where these assumptions are helpful and also where they limit the field of possible responses to the challenges of the world. This approach has proven to be very helpful in coaching settings. And so working on an individual mindset is also a building block in MyndLeap’s work. But MyndLeap goes beyond this.

The term mindset is anchored in mentality research. Here it was understood how the attitudes, perceptions and evaluations of social classes differ in relation to situations and events, which has a serious impact on the respective position within social structures. This also reduces the permeability of social strata (an aspect that SYNNECTA has anchored in its own diversity approaches). This approach was then extended to the understanding of different living spaces and nations and is still the basis of intercultural cooperation models today.

MyndLeap is aware of this anchoring of mindset work in primarily collectively conceived predispositions and has thus also focused on forms of work that make it possible to recognize collective patterns of perception and evaluation and open up opportunities to influence them. MyndLeap can thus effectively perceive collective »mindsets« and provide forms of work that enable collectives to recognize the respective benefits and limitations of these collective predispositions. And as in all cultural work, awareness opens up the opportunity for change and development. MyndLeap thus provides a sociologically based perspective alongside the more psychologically oriented mindset work and thus offers the opportunity to work effectively on the culture of a collective, an organization.

(In organizational development, the shift initiated by Didier Eribon and Annie Ernaux from a predominantly psychological perspective to a sociological and political perspective has hardly arrived yet. Yet this perspective offers a great opportunity for the efforts of transformative cultural work and especially for an effective and efficient increase in diversity in organizations).

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