How are we different?
Our many years in interpreting organisational culture tells us that leadership interventions that address people-development challenges at a symptomatic level achieve performative-level change with a high likelihood of reverting back to the status quo under stress.
Human Psychology doesn’t need to be complex.
At Cognitions, our approach goes deeper than symptoms, cognitively addressing the whole system including relevant interconnections, beliefs and motivations that drive a leaders’ defensive behaviours. Every interaction creates the culture of that organisation.
Why is the neuroscience approach important for leaders?
When organisations face challenges, people are hyperfocussed on leaders for direction, reassurance and decisions. The leaders reaction to stress and the strategies that they adopt influence how people experience leaders personally and this affects how behaviour cascades down an organisational power structure.
We have a strong understanding around neuroplasticity, what it takes for a person to think and react differently and the role of emotional intelligence to cognitively recognise emotions and question assumptions that lead to unconscious patterns of thinking and behaving.
It is rarely the organisational challenge which is damaging, the reaction to it is.
How do we do it?
Building on curiosity and an appreciation of diverse perspectives in self and others, our dialogic techniques challenge and encourage leaders to detach from the natural instinct of closing ranks and find ways to connect to ideas with an open and inclusive mindset, working on feelings of imposterism in their own thinking but more importantly, how to remove barriers and shape challenges into opportunities to help others grow and reach their potential.
We call these Green Leaders and they drive healthy conflict, high trust behaviours and High performance in Boards and Organisational teams.
Where are you now?
Where do you start? Your organisation may already have put your leaders through a short leadership programme but seen less improvement in their team performance than expected.
Perhaps your Board members or Senior Leadership team are not working as well as they should be together.
Perhaps Talent attraction is challenging or Talent attrition is too high.
Whatever your people development needs, give us a call or email us. We are here to discuss solutions and options for you to choose from.
