How we can we help you

The Cognitas Group can support you to get the powerful organisation you need

Powerful organisations get results. They are skilled, fit and quick to move. They can go after opportunities...with success.

The Cognitas Group can support you as a leader to:

• Understand the mindsets and dynamics operating today under the surface of your organisation and see how these may be helping and hindering your progress. For example:
  • How well are different teams collaborating with each other? What are the levels of trust?
  • How well do people handle change, complexity or conflict? Are they resilient?
• Define the shared mindsets that your people need to get results
• Substantially and sustainably shift to new and more productive ways of thinking and working. For example:
  • Shift from working in silos to working collaboratively across divisions
  • Shift from a culture of blame to a culture of personal responsibility
  • Shift from an internal focus to an external orientation
• Ultimately, develop a powerful organisation that is a better place to work and gets better results.

If you are an HR director, The Cognitas Group can also help you set up your functions to develop and support talent, for example to:

• Design an HR function with the right structures to meet the needs of your business. This includes making difficult decisions about whether to have centres of excellence or shared services
• Make sure that different parts of HR are focused on the right activities. This includes the detailed but essential work of deciding what sits with local divisions and what should be centralised
• Partner with managers across the business to provide good development and support to all staff
• Develop the mindsets and skills of HR professionals, for example to be good business partners and to play a role in culture change.

Successful functional transformations usually involve some changes to process and structure. But most importantly they involve reflection and changes to mindsets and ways of working. We involve people from within and beyond the function from early on so that we develop the best answer. Right from the start, we are focused on processes and structure and mindsets and ways of working.

Read an example of how we worked with a client to set up a powerful new HR organisation.