Webinar – July 18, 2024 | Using AI for Culture Transformation

using ai for culture transformation

Using AI for Culture Transformation

Thank you to all who attended our July 18th webinar, we’re grateful for your participation and engagement.

Dr. Cooke’s special appearance shed light on the innovative use of Artificial Intelligence in culture transformation, showcasing our proprietary approach to help leaders and teams make informed decisions. His expertise in culture and leadership assessments provided valuable insights for driving organizational excellence.

To continue the conversation, connect with Cathleen for timely, high-impact insights.

Missed the webinar? Access the recording and presentation deck here.

The Journey of Improvement is Continuous

In today’s ever-evolving workplace, adaptability is crucial—not just a welcomed advantage, but a fundamental necessity for staying relevant and thriving. Achieving success goes beyond just sketching out goals and strategies; it’s about consistently reviewing our progress and adjusting our sails as needed. Developing constructive leaders, fostering unified teams, and nurturing an achievement-oriented organizational culture are now essentials, not just goals. It’s all about taking a proactive approach to improvement, ensuring we’re not just setting targets but actively monitoring and refining our journey towards success with every step we take.

This post dives into the critical, yet often overlooked, step of remeasurement in an organization’s development process and examines how planned remeasurement can drive improvements benefiting both individuals and organizations.

The Importance of the Remeasure

Remeasurement serves as a bridge between where we are and where we aim to be. The process recognizes clear signs of improvement while pinpointing areas that require further fine-tuning. By reviewing and comparing initial assessment results against remeasure assessment results, leaders and organizations can ensure that their development strategies are yielding the desired outcomes and make informed decisions about what comes next.

Encouraging Sustained Progress

Remeasuring isn’t just about monitoring progress; it’s about instilling the importance of continuous improvement within an organization. This approach shifts the focus from achieving fixed goals to nurturing an environment where learning, development, and growth are ongoing processes. It aligns leadership approaches with individual and organizational objectives ensuring that each endeavor contributes to an overarching vision of success.

Throughout my consulting career, I’ve seen the positive impact of integrating a remeasurement process into client strategies. The approach not only empowers clients to take ownership of their change journey, but also ensures their continued growth.

~Roxanne Ray, Senior Consultant, Human Synergistics

Strategies for Effective Remeasurement

To leverage the full potential of remeasurement in developing leaders, individuals, teams, and organizational cultures, consider the following strategies:

  1. Set Clear Benchmarks: Begin with clear expectations and establish specific, measurable objectives. This clarity forms the basis for effective remeasurement and adjustment.
  2. Establish a Cadence: Incorporate remeasurement at the onset and into the regular rhythm of your organizational processes. Once every two years – with at least one pulse in between – ensures that progress is continually monitored and addressed.
  3. Foster Transparent Communication: Open communication helps in recognizing accomplishments and areas for further development, which is essential in the change process, whether it’s an individual leadership assessment or an organization-wide assessment. This transparent approach can make the reassessment process more relevant and actionable. Consider cultivating an environment where feedback is not only encouraged but actively sought.
  4. Utilize Proven Tools: Implement proven methodologies like the Human Synergistics’ Circumplex and range of assessments to dramatically enhance the impact of your development strategies. Embracing Constructive styles aligns you and your team with time-tested practices to support change initiatives locally, regionally, and even globally. This approach nurtures an environment where positive behaviors thrive and leads to a more vibrant and effective organizational culture.
  5. Enlist Experienced Help: With the right expertise, navigating the complexities of culture change turns seemingly impossible challenges into opportunities. Whether you want to boost the effectiveness of your internal consultants or gain insight from an external expert, a network of accredited practitioners can facilitate your remeasure process and guide you through the intricacies of growth.

For organizations looking to develop their internal capacity, we provide comprehensive accreditation in our models and tools, ensuring your in-house team not only understands the path forward but excels in guiding others along.

For those looking outside your walls, our broad network spans industries, states, and even international borders, ensuring a match with consultants who bring expertise and an understanding of your culture and language nuances, regional specificities, and unique challenges.

In my experience, remeasurement is foundational for lasting change. It acts as both a reflection and a compass, revealing the organization’s progress and guiding members towards their long-term aspirations.

~ Mary McCullock, Senior Consultant, Human Synergistics

Moving Forward

Integrating the remeasure process into your development strategies ensures continuous improvement and alignment with broader objectives. This structured approach celebrates progress, identifies growth prospects, and equips leaders and teams with the insight, agility, and resilience needed to refine their organizational goals.

Call to Action

Are you on course towards organizational success? How can you be certain? Discover how remeasurement can guide you in realigning, refocusing, and revitalizing your organization’s future. Contact us to learn more.

Delicato Family Wines – The Perfect Blend of Success



Delicato Family Wines, one of the fastest growing wine companies in the U.S., is a family-owned winery with nearly a century of history farming grapes in California and crafting superior quality wines.

Like a fine wine, organizational culture is crafted over time and we’re delighted to welcome Delicato senior HR leaders – Emily Ingram and Steve Hopper – to highlight the company’s culture journey and strategic framework.

Key takeaways:

  • Don’t change who you are
  • Hold leaders accountable
  • Don’t overcomplicate things
  • Communication matters

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Speakers

Emily Ingram True Headshot Blue SuitEmily Ingram is Executive Vice President, Human Resources for Delicato Family Wines. Her career includes tenure with Hyatt Hotels, Shaklee Corporation, Convergys, and Wyndham Worldwide. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and holds the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification.

Steve Hopper, DelicatoSteve Hopper is Vice President, Human Resources for Delicato Family Wines. A seasoned leader in human resources, he drives business results with HR strategy and organization development initiatives. Steve is skilled in optimizing HR efficiency and effectiveness, talent management, recruitment, employee relations, safety, employee opinion surveys, team building, leadership development, downsizing, rapid growth, and building organizational capabilities.

mary mccullockMary McCullock, moderator of this webinar, is the Director of Leadership & Culture Solutions at Human Synergistics and assists clients with practical solutions in achieving their leadership and organizational development objectives. In addition to being accredited in the Human Synergistics’ suite of diagnostics, she has deep experience with the ACUMEN® Leadership WorkStyles™ (LWS) assessment and in helping organizations integrate LWS into their leadership development programs to support greater levels of awareness and effectiveness.

Human Synergistics, host of this webinar series, specializes in developing and providing tools, information, and proven change strategies that help enable individuals to reach their potential, groups to realize synergy, and organizations to achieve sustainability. Celebrating 50 years of guiding organizations in developing effective leaders, innovative teams, and positive workplace cultures.

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Culture Change at HKS: Resilient and Responsive

This is an excerpt from our Constructive Culture blog post, “Change Agents and their Role in Transforming Culture,” by Kalani Iwi’ula. Click here to read the full post.

Challenge

US Bank Stadium_HKSDallas, Texas-based architectural firm HKS Architects creates places that enhance the human experience, like the US Bank Stadium, home of the 2018 Super Bowl. After collecting employee satisfaction data for 10 consecutive years, leadership sought to better understand the current culture and the roadblocks that were inhibiting employees from taking the most successful actions.

Solution

A culture survey was initiated firm-wide using the Organizational Culture Inventory® (OCI®) from Human Synergistics.1 Well-coordinated company-wide discussions, covering 20 offices across the globe, were conducted to review cultural attributes and the climates and prevailing behaviors of the various offices. Office leadership engaged staff in goal setting and planning. A new performance development system, ELEVATE, was implemented; not linked to compensation, the system involves managers meeting with team members three times each year. Change agent Cheryl Kitchner led ongoing discussions to facilitate participation and learning; vocal support from senior leadership is visible.

Outcomes

HKS reassessed its culture in 2016 using the OCI and added an assessment of the work climate with the complementary Organizational Effectiveness Inventory® (OEI).2 The retest, showing an impressive increase in survey participation, confirmed remarkable reductions in Passive/Defensive and Aggressive/Defensive styles and vital improvements along the Constructive styles. Key changes included stronger commitment to and focus on personal and professional development.

A second phase of improvement is ongoing and includes:

  • Definition of a clear “FROM-TO” shift to consistently support the company-wide strategic priority, “Responsible Design.”
  • Implementation of a creative and engaging leadership development program, Root Compass. “Responsible Leadership Workshop” was customized based on culture assessment results and launched for use with all managers. Goal: 100 people trained by end of 2018.
  • Enhance the ELEVATE platform to include peer reviews for project teams and benchmarking by role.
  • Roll-out of personal assessments to identify individual styles and strengths. Goal: 600 people trained by end of 2018.

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