OUR WORK / PILLAR 2
The organizations that sustain strong cultures are the ones that never stop building the capability to read them.
Reading a culture is a skill, and skills are built. They deepen with practice, they spread when they are taught well, and they hold when an organization keeps investing in them.
Learning Intelligence is the discipline of designing learning that builds that capability, and of knowing whether it worked.
The proof is not who attended. It is three things.
▪ People can do something they could not do before.
▪ They are still doing it months later.
▪ The capability lives in the organization, not in one person’s head.
Greg helped us clarify our vision, dig deep for the data to support the planning, provided the project management structure to ensure we achieved our objectives, and helped us reach substantive recommendations for change. The end result was more than a report and recommendations, however. He helped educate and empower a group of us to lead change in a complex environment, and the project armed us to develop meaningful leadership and learning initiatives that are still in place today.
Steve Ashton
Bell Aliant
The Distinction
Most organizations have far more learning happening than they have designed.
Formal programs are visible, measurable, and budgeted. They are also the smaller part of how people actually build capability on the job. The larger part is emergent, and largely unmanaged.
Designed Learning
Emergent Learning
Learning Intelligence connects both. Deliberately.
The Three Disciplines
Most organizations have one. High-performing cultures develop all three, together, as a single practice.
DIAGNOSTIC DISCIPLINE
Read
The capacity to see what the organization’s learning profile is actually producing. Not what the training calendar says. What the culture is absorbing, resisting, and acting on.
STRATEGIC DISCIPLINE
Source
The deliberate identification and acquisition of the learning the organization needs next. Not the most available program. The most precisely aligned one.
GOVERNANCE DISCIPLINE
Secure
The structural commitment that ensures learning reaches the people closest to the work, at the moment it is most needed.
Three Applied Learning Programs
Each program is built on the frameworks that make culture readable, and each closes by applying what participants have learned to their own organization.
Two work through a full case study first, so the skill is practised on neutral ground before it is turned on the organization the participant actually works in.
Contact GHS Enterprise for a full program brief, including learning objectives, delivery format and duration, cohort size, materials and instruments included, and investment.
1
Deliberate Culture Leadership Program
6 modules · 20 hours · Virtual
Grounded in The Deliberate Culture. Participants work in their own organization from the first module, using the 7 Cs of Leadership and the 21 Commitments to shape culture on purpose rather than by accident.
2
HR: The Resolute Culture Steward
4 modules · 12 hours · Virtual
Grounded in The Bridged Culture. Participants work through the “Brantwood Polytechnic” case study as its Culture Steward, reading the distance between what the organization declares and what its people live, then carrying that same reading back into their own organization.
3
When The Signal Whispers First
6 modules · 18 hours · Virtual
Grounded in The Resolute Culture. Participants take the Guardian seat, the C-Suite persona, for the length of the immersive “Veridian Technologies” case study.
The Guardian is the one person whose job is to notice a signal while it is still a whisper, protect what is working, and hold it under pressure. Participants run the Seven Signals as a live diagnostic inside the case, then turn the same reading on their own organization.
The question worth asking is not whether your organization is investing in learning. It is whether the learning is building the culture you have declared.
Training hours per employee. Program completion rates. Budget allocated. These numbers are not wrong. They are incomplete. GHS Enterprise exists to help HR professionals answer the harder question honestly.