We optimize emotions in the workplace.
Specifically we do 4 things:
1) We build organizational culture in ways that foster psychological safety so people are willing to embrace discomfort.
2) We use their capacity for discomfort as a tool for developing their emotional intelligence. EQ growth can only be achieved by training the brain like a muscle. Emotional pathways, left over from natural selection, shape emotions' path through the brain. These pathways must be remade to unlock EQ. It is therefore not something that can be taught. It must be trained.
3) Then we optimize your hiring to protect what you've built. You'll gain the ability to screen people against your culture in quantifiable ways. By doing this, you preserve the safety built into your teams. You also offer new employees a chance to grow their EQ they will not find elsewhere.
4) Finally we coach your leaders on how to lead in a world that demands they tap into people's emotions. Traditional leadership frameworks struggle with this.
Using a high-touch consulting model and leading edge software tools, we enable you to take the guesswork out of the most difficult elements of culture and engagement.
Culture is defined as the beliefs and behaviours that distinguish a group of people from all others. It’s what makes you unique.
‘Smithing’ is defined as the process of using heat to shape metal into something of increased utility or beauty.
Emotion is often referred to as a feeling or mental state characterized by intense energy, often accompanied by changes in behaviour and thoughts.
We use the heat of emotion to shape behaviour, increasing the beauty and utility of your culture, uniquely distinguishing you from all others.
We help make work a happier place by teaching people how to understand and manage their feelings.
We build a friendly place to go to work where people feel safe to talk about their feelings.
We teach them how and why their brain gets tired, and how to fix this so they don’t accidentally make work a less friendly place to be for others.
We also help the company hire nice people who fit in with a place that’s friendly.
Finally, we teach bosses how to be good at their jobs by understanding their employees' feelings. We do this by telling them stories of different ways to be a boss, and using special tools to make being the best boss easier.
We will create alignment across your entire organization. We will grow the emotional capacity of all your staff. We will eliminate costly hiring mistakes. And we'll give you a leadership team that creates differential value for everyone they interact with.
In short, we'll give you a culture everyone will envy yet no one can copy, and employees who will never want to leave, yet everyone will want to steal.
By creating a shared language that becomes an emotional operating system for your company.
At its core, our Cognitive Colours System is built on the same Jungian architecture as all major psychometric assessments. However, we are the first to extend the framework down into emotion and sensation, and up into relationships and culture. Your people will know why they feel the way they do in all situations. They will know whether the impulse that emotion creates serves them or not. And they'll not only learn how to avoid engaging in poor behaviour, but how to use the energy created by that emotion to make the team around them better.
Imagine every negative emotion eventually leading to a differential gain for your company. That is what we do.
This is actually very simple. It comes down to intent. If you are considering a service like ours in the hopes of:
Then this will not work for you. If however, you are considering a service like ours because you want to:
Then this will work brilliantly for you. Yes, we can solve all of the problems listed at the top. The only way to solve them however, is to create an environment that makes it impossible for them to arise, and that environment can only be cultivated through a 'serve-first' mindset.
Although we lack a direct comparison, these are the providers most commonly compared to our individual services:
Business coaches like EOS or Scaling Up:
The brain hates a lack of clarity, so we endorse anything that offers it. While these frameworks create clarity, they were not built using evidence-based organizational psychology. They cannot provide insight into the emotional reasons why people are not reaching their goals, despite being clear about them. This can lead to fear and conflict when people feel exposed but aren't given the tools to help them.
Tools like DISC and Insights:
Validated assessments, including ours, all stem from the same Jungian framework. Having provided third-party programs like these in the past, we understand their limitations. All are excellent at predicting a person's tendencies. If used consistently, each improves communication. However, we are the only ones who extend the framework to include emotion, relationships, and culture, since these were the areas we saw teams actually break down.
Recruitment Firms:
We began as recruiters. We've been placing people since the late 1990s. It's what gave us the perspective that things had to change. Unfortunately, a recruiter's best client is one with sufficient enough turnover to continue to pay fees. When you're trying to make work a source of emotional well-being, this gets harder and harder to reconcile. Our HireEQ service offers everything you would expect from conventional recruitment firms that actually works - and none of the stuff that doesn’t.
Executive Coaches:
This is the hardest to compare since there are so many differences between coaches. We will say that our coaching focuses on optimizing emotions. Based on emotional intelligence and leadership psychology, it uses only validated techniques. Our CEO developed the program as part of his Masters in Psychology of Leadership, and continues to oversee every aspect of the service.
That depends on your specific needs and a number of variables. Book a demo and we can give you an accurate assessment.
Alternatively, this question is answered in the FAQs section on each of our product pages in relation to that product. Reading all 4 should give you a solid idea.
Our goal is to change behaviour and build emotional muscle. We are like a personal trainer for your company's culture. What kind of shape you're in today directly affects how much pain you'll feel. If it has been six months since anyone engaged in an awkward conversation in your team, you will feel sore after your first couple of sessions with us. The discomfort will be less severe if this is a common practice in your company already. It is best to schedule a demo call. As part of our process, we will provide you with a 100% transparent assessment of what you are likely to experience and whether it is worth it.
The answer varies greatly from client to client. It can be as low as $0.00. It's common for us to solve a client's most pressing issue during a demo call. An organization undergoing transformative change can spend over $100,000 in a single year once training, coaching, and recruitment are factored in.
Regardless, you'll only spend what's necessary. All of our services are designed to provide standalone value, yet together form a holistic solution. Those with specific needs can buy only what they need. Those needing more support can unlock discounts and efficiencies by bundling services. We offer detailed pricing for each service on our product pages. Bundling services reduces fees. We also add free resources to our site weekly. Budget constraints should never be what prevents people from learning EQ.
We can tell you that 79% of employees are disengaged. The cost is 34% of their salary. The average salary is $61,000. When you add it up, we're far less expensive than the $16,385 per person most companies don't realize they're already paying. Costs like these don't show up on an itemized invoice, so they're easy to ignore.
Mostly because every urgent thing you have on the go that would prevent you from doing this, is a product of having not done this already.
There is no perfect time to get off the treadmill, only the regret each day that you didn’t do it the day before.
86.7698 - but we used a calculator to figure it out.
That's the beauty of solving problems that require intelligence - you have devices that can do the heavy lifting for you. The only problem is that your competitors have access to these same tools.
Problems that require emotional intelligence require you to do the lifting on your own. Those who do the work develop muscles. Those who develop muscles inherit an advantage that can't be taken away from them.
We offer 'emotional exercises’, ‘cognitive supplements’ and ‘mental meal plans’ that ensure you get stronger every day. All while your competition is focused on trying to buy cheaper calculators.