Leverage the tension between designing great teams and producing a high-performing company culture.
Problems I Solve
Loss of High-Performers
“I just lost a high-performing employee and I suspect management’s inability to create positive employee experiences is the culprit.”
Balancing Activity with Performance
“Our transition to remote working has led to productivity loss, communication lags, and difficulties with motivation and focus.”
Tension Between Department vs Company Performance
“Our sales department consistently exceeds revenue targets, but they focus solely on short-term gains and not on building long-term customer relationships or contributing to the company’s sustainability goals.”
Conflict is Tanking Productivity
“Friction between my sales and design/support teams is threatening my project timelines, and burned-out staff have begun to leave the organization.”
Struggling to Delegate
“Recently, we’re busier than we’ve been in a long time, which has placed pressure on our leadership to delegate.”
Efficient Hiring vs Hiring Right Fit
“We quickly filled an empty role in order to move things along, but we’re struggling to get our new team members up to speed.”
Surpassed by Competitors Innovation
“Following our acquisition by a larger company, our competitors have been outperforming us—and we have no products in development to keep up.”
Culture Clash is Killing Our Merger
“When our large company acquired a smaller company, we were met with significant friction when blending the two teams.”
Hire & Retain the Right People. Increase Engagement.
Make Business Outcomes Soar.
What I Help You Do: Teams
Pause to Assemble High Performance Teams
Organizations often connect efficiency with high performance. That mindset overlooks the various ways different work styles impact performance. Analyzing the ideal personality for a specific role alongside the required job skills increases the likelihood of hiring an employee who will become profitable faster and stay longer. People who are more aligned with a role can be more authentic in the workplace and have more success engaging with others - creating the sustainable efficiency you need. I will help you get there.
A highly engaged workforce increases profitability by 21%!
Focus Your Remote Teams—and Include Them in Your Culture
The remote model of working and all of its variations is here to stay. Without accountability, structure, and purpose for your remote workers, everything falls apart. Create accountability and structure for your remote teams by adapting your culture in a remote-friendly way. Design new collaborations and structured delegations, thus creating positive experiences virtually.
Empower Your Teams With Accountability
Creating a strong culture for your team is a process. It requires alignment of beliefs and accountability across the board. Empower your team by inspiring them to take ownership of their work to achieve the goals of the company. Develop a common language to understand when you have stopped being accountable. Accountability—when done right—is a powerful unifying principle in every type of culture.
“BHHC has been an integral part of our leadership development and succession process for decades. It has helped us recognize how we are wired and to leverage our abilities. We have also developed an appreciation for the stages of organizational growth and the evolution of leadership styles required to sustain our ability to thrive as we grow.”
George V., President and CEO
United Electric Supply
What I Help You Do: People
Retain Your Best People
Replacing an employee costs 130% of their salary—this is an expensive and avoidable problem.
Retain top talent by hiring high-performers well-suited to your needs. Create a strategy based on truly comprehending their needs for career growth. High-performers will ultimately seek to align their career with their personality and needs—whether that’s at your organization or somewhere else.
Develop Excellent Managers
Managers are tasked with balancing the roles of being the expert and the learner. Effectively managing the tension between these responsibilities accelerates leadership growth. Give management the support they need by leveraging their personalities and management styles to contribute to a results-focused culture.
69% of managers are uncomfortable communicating with employees
“This process helps you to identify the preferred dominant traits for a position and then hiring managers and recruiters can review the profiles of applicants to evaluate fits and gaps. It is an excellent additional data point to make sure you hire your fish to swim and your squirrels to climb.”
Emily C., Director of Talent Acquisition
Global Scientific Consulting Company, Hiring Better
What I Help You Do: Culture
Find & Operationalize the Beliefs That Contribute to a High Performance Culture
Team members generate beliefs about the work they and their teams do. They think about the actions they are taking and base those beliefs on the experiences they have. Some beliefs help teamwork. Some beliefs frustrate teams’ efforts at improved results. I help you uncover beliefs that are limiting and operationalize beliefs that are helping. Culture is experiences shaping beliefs, driving actions and results.
Balance Innovation with Execution
Creating a culture that attracts fresh ideas is vital for building and maintaining high-performing teams. Leverage your organization’s capacity to live in the tension of doing things right and adapting to grow. Creating structure and routine shouldn’t limit your team’s ability to innovate and take risks. Make innovation a habit that happens each time individuals and teams see it, own it, solve it, and do it.
Maintain a Positive Culture Through Periods of Transition
When your organization goes through significant changes—rapid growth, mergers, new software systems—they need executives focused more on leading than doing. Building an effective team and company culture with high levels of trust allows you to delegate effectively. Leaders can invest more time "on the business" and not get trapped working "in the business."
Craft Strategic Cultural Alignment
Anticipate and plan for a possible culture clash when merging companies. In order to provide seamless integration, you have to take several factors into consideration and create a strategy in advance—not just wait and see when the time comes.
Companies We’ve Helped
My Arsenal for Building Strong Teams and Positive Culture
Align Personalities with Company Goals
People’s brains are wired differently. When employees’ natural traits align closely with the most important traits for a particular role, your organization improves.
We leverage the insights of Organization Analysis and Design (OAD) to measure and assess your organization.
Empower Through Positive Experiences
A positive day-to-day work experience for everyone in your organization is vital. You’ll achieve impactful results by aligning your team member’s everyday experiences with your company’s goals.
By consulting through Culture Partners, I offer culture management tools and interactive workshops designed to activate and sustain your culture.
Maximize Your Team’s Potential,
Achieve Company Excellence
About Bob Cox
I’m passionate about helping individuals and groups live in the tension of doing 2 things at once—winning and improving.
I prefer an action-oriented and pragmatic approach which is reflected in the tools I employ and the learning experiences I create.
I’m a longtime educator and coach whose growth mindset calls me to approach challenges as opportunities, not failures. No organization is perfect, and no leader has the answer for every problem. The world is too complicated and fast-moving to harbor that expectation any longer. I specialize in providing insights about your people that support your short-term and long-term organizational goals. Are we hiring for retention? Do our managers effectively develop our people’s performance? Is our succession planning aligned to what we’re going to be, not who we were?
"One of my favorite parts of this role is mentoring and BHHC’s platform has really unlocked so many possibilities for us to accelerate growth in our org."
Lou Doerr, Portfolio Director
Oteemo, Inc.
“I owe a debt of gratitude to Bob Cox and his leadership training for helping me get there. He showed me how to communicate and relate to my team on an individual level as well as a team.”
Dave Wilson, Purchasing Manager
United Electric Supply
Strengthen Your Organization by Solving “People Challenges”
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