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Create Constructive Cultures and Impact the World
Over 30 years of research across thousands of organizations using the Organizational Culture Inventory® has shown positive relationships between Constructive cultural norms (that is, expectations for members to behave constructively in order to “fit in”) and motivation, engagement, teamwork, quality, external adaptability and, ultimately, profitability.
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‘Unbossed Culture’ Takes Performance To New Heights
Leaders now hold each other accountable. Their vulnerability has promoted inclusiveness, built trust and showed commitment to employees. Employees are engaged, their ideas are flowing and they’re taking ownership.
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Leadership Glue Delivers Speed, Agility, & Aligned Action
Hanes’ approach to developing their leaders is distinct in that their leaders are required to experience LSI three times before moving forward to the next level development program.
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How Quantitative and Qualitative Results Lead to Real-Time Change
The leaders at ERDMAN saw an opportunity for the senior leadership team to set the tone and expectations for the entire company and help drive needed business results. While never an overnight change, culture transformation is a vital part of an organization’s success when done correctly and ERDMAN has already begun to see the results…
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Quantifying and Aligning Workplace Culture Post-Merger
While it’s never an overnight change, culture transformation is a vital part of an organization’s success when done correctly. With 12 years of experience and the assessment tools that provided quantitative data showing where we are, where we want to go, and how we need to get there – Inclusa’s culture journey seemed attainable.
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Johnsonville Sausage: Ensuring a Culture for Growth
Members and leaders of Wisconsin-based Johnsonville Sausage have a bold vision to “be the best company on earth.” This requires that the leading national sausage brand be culturally prepared and poised for aggressive innovation on its way to growing and becoming a $1 billion company. An important step was determining whether the company’s Research and…
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Culture Shift + Leadership Development = Sustainable Results for Advocate Health Care
As the largest health system in Illinois, Advocate’s challenge was to increase and stabilize engagement, focus on culture change, and strengthen relations within a high-profile, semi-autonomous unit that struggled with negative team dynamics, unproductive work relations, and entrenched passive-aggressive behavior.
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Culture Change at HKS: Resilient and Responsive
Dallas, 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.
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Ultimate Culture Webinar – What are your Blind Spots? with Jim Haudan and Rich Berens
Root Inc Chairman, Jim Haudan, and CEO and Chief Client Fanatic, Rich Berens, reveal the five most common blind spots that thwart leaders and their organizations from attaining higher levels of member engagement and creating real and meaningful strategic and culture change. They outline how to create a thriving organization by focusing on purpose over…
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The Missing C in C-Suite = Culture
Marti Wronski, General Counsel and SVP with the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, shares: “Successful transformation happens when the majority of people in the company have aligned beliefs and when proper leadership mindsets fuel consistent action.”
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A Historic Shift in Expecting Leaders to Understand and Evolve Culture
We are experiencing a historic shift in how people view the importance of culture and culture change. As a result, most CEOs and other top leaders will be expected to understand and deal with culture challenges proactively, or they will be considered both financially and morally negligent. Yes, financially and morally negligent. We are seeing top…
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In Conversation with Edgar Schein: Answering Three Common Questions about Culture
Culture can often be like a wet bar of soap—too slippery to grasp. To harness its force, we first need to understand its nature and dynamics. And there’s no better person to help us get a handle on organizational and team culture than Edgar Schein, one of the world’s most well-known culture pioneers.
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Post #200 on CultureU – 7 Essential Insights Normally Missed in Culture Change Efforts
This milestone post is a salute to passionate and experienced culture and performance change agents. You understand the power of culture in organizations and the challenge, frustration, restlessness, and exhilaration inevitably linked to intentional culture-related action. We’re living in the absolute best time in history to be involved in meaningful culture change. Culture is finally…
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Closing the Massive Gaps Between Culture Awareness, Education, and Action
It’s time to turn the culture world upside down and explode many incorrect notions that are preventing meaningful culture change for organizations and society. We’ve reached a critical point where most leaders are aware culture is important, but they range from being confused to intentionally uninformed about what culture change is all about. This culture…
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8 Culture Change Secrets Most Leaders Don’t Understand
I spent 15 years learning and applying culture insights as a senior executive and consultant across multiple organizations before I started to proactively reach out to top culture pioneers and experts to learn about their culture facts and fundamentals. We can’t learn much about culture from the popular press and most social media is dominated…
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20 Organizational Culture Change Insights from Edgar Schein
Grâce cette publication, vous pourrez accélérer le changement de votre culture organisationnelle. Chaque leader comprendra ici les bénéfices des réflexions critiques sur la culture ainsi que la résolution de problèmes, le changement, l’engagement, la stratégie, le recrutement et le consulting avec Edgar Schein, Professeur Émérite au MIT Sloan School of Management et personnalité la plus…
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The Common Ground of Qualitative and Quantitative Culture Development Approaches (Part Two)
This is the second post from a discussion between Professor Edgar Schein, arguably the #1 workplace culture expert in the world and a strong critic of culture surveys, and Dr. Robert A. Cooke, creator of the most widely used organizational culture assessment in the world. The discussion resulted in 12 key areas of common ground…
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The Common Ground of Qualitative and Quantitative Culture Development Approaches (Part One)
What happens when you have a discussion with Professor Edgar Schein, arguably the #1 workplace culture expert in the world and a strong critic of culture surveys, and Dr. Robert A. Cooke, creator of the most widely used organizational culture assessment in the world? It was exciting to see this discussion unfold to a point…
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Workplace Culture vs. Climate – why most focus on climate and may suffer for it
Culture is a hot topic. It was the Merriam-Webster “word of the year” for 2014. Leaders and experts across the world are talking about how to develop an agile culture, implement a lean culture, overcome the culture clash in acquisitions, and many other areas of culture change. Unfortunately, the reality is that most of these…
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The Four Roots of Employee Engagement
Haven’t we talked about employee engagement enough? Nope! Because despite the amount of time, energy and effort that organizations around the globe are investing in helping engage people in work, things aren’t improving much. Weekly pizza socials, guest speakers and telecommuting options are certainly appealing. I like pizza as much as the next guy. And,…
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The first principle of successful culture shaping – The Shadow of the Leader
I wrote about the four reasons culture-shaping efforts fail in my previous post (Organizational culture has reached a tipping point, yet many culture change initiatives fail for four key reasons). But what makes them succeed? What makes some culture-change efforts successful where others become simply another ‘flavor of the week’ training session that never translates…
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The Life Styles Inventory™: A Brief Introduction, Part I—Data, Words, Causes, and Effects
Presented by Robert A. Cooke, Ph.D. and geared toward graduate-level business students, this two-part video introduces the Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI).
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Relationship Between a Leader’s Impact and Performance
Human Synergistics CEO Robert A. Cooke, Ph.D. presents at the 11th Australian Conference on Culture and Leadership.
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The 11th Australian Conference on Culture and Leadership: Mike Shove
Mike Shove, Corporate Vice President at CSC, presents at the 11th Australian Conference on Culture and Leadership.
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11 Insights from the Ultimate Culture Conference
Interest in the subject of culture continues to grow dramatically. It’s a hot topic, and for good reason. Research shows Constructive cultures lead to increased profitability, satisfaction, performance, and more. The Annual Ultimate Culture Conference gathers top thought leaders in the field of organizational culture and leadership to provide valuable insight into and discussion around this elusive concept for…
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8 Steps for Successful Change Management
Writer and award-winning editor, Alec Marsh (The Times – London), shares how John Kotter’s eight steps for business transformation have helped leaders revitalize their organizations. The article includes insights from several business thought leaders, including Dr. Robert A. Cooke (CEO of Human Synergistics International), Peter Fuda (Founder of The Alignment Partnership), and Andrew Campbell (Director…
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Culture expert Edgar Schein and Human Synergistics International announce collaboration
A new partnership focused on managing change in the areas of organizational culture, leadership, talent management and consulting
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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch: VoiceAmerica Interview with Robert A. Cooke, Ph.D.
HSI CEO Dr. Robert A. Cooke joined Dr. Linda Sharkey on her VoiceAmerica radio show, iLead – The Leadership Connection, to discuss how to assess culture so you can take action to align your organization’s culture with its values. The episode is entitled, “Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch.” They also share insights on culture in the global context…
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Human Synergistics Welcomes Tim Kuppler as Director of Culture and Organization Development
We are pleased to announce that Tim Kuppler has joined our leadership team as Director of Culture and Organization Development, bringing 25 years of experience in strategy, culture, and performance improvement to this new position. “Tim comes to us with a wealth of energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge,” says CEO Dr. Robert Cooke. “In addition to spearheading…
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Podcast: The Science of Business Culture
How do you create a Constructive culture—one that is proven to drive engagement, quality, profitability, and sustainability? In this lively podcast, hosts Zac and Steve Gandara of Excellent Cultures interview award-winning professor Dr. Robert A. Cooke, who was one of the first to quantify the concept of organizational culture after his breakthrough revelation that the…
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Changing Culture: Leaders Magazine Interview with Robert A. Cooke, Ph.D.
Dr. Robert A. Cooke, CEO of Human Synergistics International, was interviewed by Leaders Magazine to talk about culture change and HSI’s role in organizational development. The interview offers unique insights from Dr. Cooke on the evolution of organizational culture and his own journey to fulfill HSI’s mission of Changing the World—One Organization at a Time®.