Begin Your Cultural Evoloshen here!
Some of Our Amazing Clients
General Culture Issues Troubling Many Companies Today
Company culture can either be one of your greatest assets – as it is for companies like Southwest Airlines, WD-40, PUMA, and many others; or it can be a detriment that diminishes employee engagement, hits your profitability because of reduced productivity, work-arounds and inefficiencies; or, worse yet, it is toxic and your organization is dealing with one or more crises, such as, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, financial mismanagement, cheating customers, inattention to safety, or mismanagement.
Here are some common culture issues that companies are facing today:
- A lack of alignment between the company’s actions and stated values.
- Culture norms that are not connected to shared understandings and language, and behaviors.
- Multiple silo-driven cultures that are stronger than the overall company culture.
- A slow acceptance and great resistance to change.
- Poor communication: there is a lack of two-way communications; it flows down, but not up.
- A toxic environment, with a lack of empathy or tolerance for the human element.
- Micromanagement is used as a substitute for a lack of leadership.
- A lack of connectedness or “organizational glue”.
- A lack of leadership transparency and honesty.
- Culture needs to be reimagined as 2020 and the COVID lockdown has changed everything.
- Leaders don’t know how to take their culture to the next level to meet the increased emphasis on company culture from investors, regulators, and social media is forcing leaders to be more accountable to culture than ever before.
What We Can Do To Transform Your Business Through Culture
- Lead your organization through a proven process of creating and unifying purpose, which is the foundation for building a sustainable culture.
- Educate and train your leaders and employees on the primary concepts of neuroscience to increase trust – which is essential to increasing engagement, and creating a high-performance culture.
- Partner with your HR leaders as a fractional Chief Cultural Officer to develop and implement new cultural strategies in your organization.
- Create customized business solutions to elevate your leaders through executive coaching and mentoring; provide training on Conversational Intelligence and other communication models.
- Provide research of top leadership experts, neuroscientists, and experts in the field of cultural engagement.
- Customized training programs that reignite the energy and enthusiasm, and infuse the positivity of your employees to be more receptive to change.
- Create behavioral change that creates the foundation for culture change.
- Build high-trust and healthy work environments.
What We Offer
What People
Are Saying
“Many Thanks to All for an Awesome Expedition - I love that this is just the beginning!!”
Johan Birgersson
CEO EasyPark Group
“This training can be useful for different functions. I'm not a Manager and it was very useful for me. I know that trust is very important but during this training, we learned different methods to build a trust relationship. It is very important for me in my current job. Moreover, it can be useful in our daily life too so I can certainly recommend this training to others. It was very interesting and lead by a very good trainer (Karin Volo)!”
Virginie Hohl
HR Business Partner, Sogeti
“I would recommend this training because good / intelligent conversations are very important skills, which all should possess. It will improve your job and life satisfaction! The tools that we went through in each session were very valuable! Practicing the tools each week was very helpful, so they were not just concepts learned. Using the tools made my feedback sessions faster and more efficient so these conversational skills aren't just about improving one's soft skills but also boosting efficiency!”
Marsa Laukkoski
Managing Applications Consultant, Capgemini
“This training opened up my mind! I had good conversations with my group. It’s great and it’s relevant! And give it a 10!”
Kylee Potae
Director, BDO
“Absolutely on target with the right message for the right times.”
Mark C. Thompson
New York Times Best Selling Author
“The Volo’s show us a new way of thinking: corporate success with a heart.”
Marshall Goldsmith
the Thinkers50 Award Winner
“What I got most of this training is how important it is to have the employee workforce engage and the negative aspects of having it disengage. It was also great to see, realize and learn all the different ways of making or engaging the workforce.”
Petra Sundström
VP People & Organization, Construction Division, Husqvarna Group
“Although I’ve worked with engagement for some time, I was amazed to learn more about the science behind Engagement and how important our behaviours are for an organization! I was very inspired and got hands on advice that I can really put into action.”
Ivonn Popovic
HRManager, VINGE, The Law Firm of the Year
“Companies and organizations need this! It is impressive to understand the connections and get the knowledge in how you can engage employees in a tangible way transform an organization.”
Ayla Lindahl
Sales Director, Colfax Fluid Systems
“It’s great to see the combination of the academic/research dimension with the joy/inspiration dimension. Everything is AMAZING! We need ICES in EVERY COMPANY in the world!”
Kiko Kislansky
Founder/CEO Cazulo, Brazil
“I appreciated getting a deeper understanding for the neuroscience…sort of “proof” that will be good to use. Also, it was great to have so many good examples and discussions!”
Gunilla Landelius
Global HR Manager, Cellmark
“I would recommend the ICES Certification training, especially if you see a need to work on the company culture. The training is definitely helpful with many tools and insights! I have appreciated being moved out of my comfort zone. There were many good reminders of what’s important in leadership and the importance of trust, because a lot starts there!”