172. Tiny Culture Change - Celebrate Growth Before Results with Prina Shah
In this short but powerful episode of Ways to Change Your Workplace, Prina Shah explores why workplaces often celebrate outcomes while overlooking the growth that made those outcomes possible.
Results matter - but they are usually lag indicators. If leaders only recognise the final achievement, people quickly learn that effort, learning, experimentation, and progress do not count unless they produce immediate success.
Prina shares a practical culture shift leaders can implement this week: recognising how people are improving, not just what they have achieved.
This episode highlights how acknowledging behavioural shifts, emotional regulation, learning, and progress creates psychologically safer workplaces where people feel more confident to experiment, take smart risks, and continue developing.
In this episode, Prina explores:
- Why results are lagging indicators
- The hidden risk of only rewarding outcomes
- How recognition shapes workplace behaviour
- Practical examples of recognising growth in real time
- The connection between growth recognition and psychological safety
- Why learning cultures outperform fear cultures
- Small leadership behaviours that create long-term culture change
Key Takeaway
When leaders celebrate growth, not just outcomes, people become more willing to learn, adapt, and contribute openly.
Recognition is not only about achievement.
It is also about progress.
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