Webinar: Cultural Intelligence – Learning and leading in risk
What culture is not
In most organisations, culture change is viewed as a top-down initiative, a rational exercise, a leadership problem and a measurable goal.
Typical culture change initiatives include handing surveys and questionaries to employees and seeking their feedback, setting up SMART goals, motivating people through bonuses and sanctions, close surveillance of human behaviour and the central role assigned to ‘leaders’ and top-management to bring change.
Such initiatives assume that culture is:
- A mechanical system;
- Humans are motivated by incentives and fear;
- Success is brought by about leaders and top managers (the hero myth);
- Human are objects and a sum of inputs and outputs.
A holistic view on culture
Away from the Cartesian, brain-centric view of human mind we will be introduced to the concept of embodied Mind rooted in both conventional wisdom as well as the most advanced research in neurosciences and across disciplines.
The mind extends far beyond the brain. The entire human body is a Mind. Unlike brain-centric approaches that tend to think that human beings are conscious of their decisions we will learn why, through the course of evolution, humans have always been largely unconscious and therefore unaware of their decisions and their underlying beliefs, myths and rituals.
Understanding the embodied nature of human Mind has wide implications for how people learn and unlearn and how we can influence the culture of our workplaces in an ethical and sensible manner.
Culture Cloud: a framework for Cultural Intelligence
In this session, we will make an introduction to Culture Cloud – a framework in Social Psychology of Risk – to understand culture and touch of some of these areas:
- habits and rituals;
- Behaviours (under stress);
- alternative views on what people consider right and wrong (beyond rule following myth);
- The nature of power and authority
- understanding history beyond recorded events and facts;
- How to frame questions; observe silences (what is not said); and thinking metaphorically;
- The hidden meaning in artefacts displayed on walls
- How to understand slogans and symbols
By becoming culturally intelligent we can:
- Better understand our own biases and respond to personal challenges in risk and leadership
- Influence others with confidence
- Become better listeners and observers
- Learn about human decision making and judgments
- Possess tools for thinking, communicating and managing self and others
- Become deliberate and strategic about culture and culture change
Speakers
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Nippin AnandFounderNippin has a Masters degree in Economics, a PhD in Social Sciences and a fascination in Cultural Anthropology. Working as a seafarer and travelling the world from the age of seventeen gave Nippin the unique opportunity to meet people who think differently. This experience has informed much of his work to date, encouraging him to find deeper meaning, as well as learn and grow through every challenge he undertakes.
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Pedro FerreiraChief ScientistPedro applies a wide diversity of industry and academic research experience to the understanding of how planning, learning and decision-making are at play in different organisations. He has over 20 years of experience as a consultant and researcher in the areas of Safety, Resilience and Ergonomics.
Pedro holds a PhD in “Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Management” and a master degree in Ergonomics and Health & Safety.
