What is personal growth practice?
A personal growth practice treats capability as developable while using specific goals, appropriate strategies, feedback, support, and reflection to produce real change.
Reflect on whether you turn development goals into useful feedback, effective practice, support, and evidence of change.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does personal growth practice mean?
A personal growth practice treats capability as developable while using specific goals, appropriate strategies, feedback, support, and reflection to produce real change.
Why it matters at work
Believing growth is possible can help, but effort alone is not a method. Development also depends on opportunity, resources, good strategy, recovery, and willingness to change course.
What this assessment measures
Development direction
Choosing a specific capability connected to meaningful work rather than pursuing vague self-improvement.
Practice & support
Using suitable challenge, repetition, coaching, and resources instead of relying on effort alone.
Feedback & adaptation
Seeking evidence, interpreting setbacks accurately, and updating the plan without fixed labels or self-blame.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your personal growth practice foundation
Your answers point to a few situations where one deliberate practice could make this capability more dependable.
A developing personal growth practice pattern
You show this capability in some conditions. Start with the dimension that becomes least reliable under pressure.
A strong personal growth practice pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it with harder situations and feedback from people affected.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
David S. Yeager and colleagues (2019), “A National Experiment Reveals Where a Growth Mindset Improves Achievement”, Nature.