Values-based Corporate Culture Development. Empowering the Higher Ground Life movement in the workplace.
Success in life and business is more than the accumulation of wealth and profits. True success comes in growing sustainable, trusting relationships and in creating purposeful, life-affirming cultures where people matter and business thrives.
Welcome to the Higher Ground Consultancy and the Higher Ground Life movement. For the past 15 years we have worked with organizations of all sizes and shapes, encouraging values-based leadership and authentic, meaningful cultural development.
With a model anchored in behavioral science, we have designed and implemented a full array of tools centered around the creation, deployment and measurement of high-trust relationships—both professional and personal.
Your people matter.
Acknowledge their most important needs and build a storm-proof culture.
The rules of engagement have changed—for good. Much of that change is being driven by the workforce. Post-COVID workers are seeking more than a paycheck. They are re-evaluating what matters most in life and where work fits.
They are more demanding for recognition, flexibility to work on their terms, work/life balance, meaning and joy.
Enlightened corporate leaders commit to engage with their employees to positively impact the bottom line by adopting life-affirming corporate culture.
Your culture matters.
Overwhelming evidence supports the case that trusted, purposeful, values-based organizational culture delivers direct, positive return on trust contributions to the bottom line.
“With everything disrupted, going back to the same old thing is a losing strategy. The strongest companies are reinventing themselves by embracing pandemic-driven change.”
—McKinsey 2020
The game-changing effects of the COVID pandemic have challenged organizational culture more than ever before.
The world has changed.
We have a tool to help you navigate an uncertain future.
Introducing Cultivate.
The virtual community platform for building corporate culture, employee engagement and bottom line performance.
The Cultivate virtual platform ties together disparate geographies on all desktop, laptop and smart phone technologies creating a seamless, elegant and engaging community building experience.
Utilizes the best in gamification science to make the entire experience fun and rewarding.
Employees enjoy both personal and professional growth through daily practice.
Built on a proven, behavioral personal growth, recognition-based model that is specifically designed to reinforce corporate vision, mission and values.
With more of the workforce working from home or remote locations, it has become extremely challenging to maintain engagement and foster a sense of community.
Companies are being forced to think outside the box to maintain and grow employee engagement by fostering a more empathetic response to employee needs, being more flexible, increasing benefits and meaningful human communication, investing in employee development and RECOGNITION, and using technology to connect in a more meaningful way.
Cultivate checks all the boxes.
Why invest in Cultivate?
Research validates that highly-engaged employees who work in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration are more productive, increase sales, remain loyal to the company and deliver higher customer satisfaction.
Cultivate works.
Measuring results will always have a place in our organizations. However, results only tell us what has been achieved, not what will be achieved. But behavior does. Focussing on maintaining the right behavior is what will drive predictable, long-term performance.
Enlightened corporate leadership understands that specific “up stream” behaviors influences performance in 3 ways—it either sustains it, accelerates it or hinders it.
Over the past 7 years the Cultivate Employee Engagement platform has delivered positive results to countless thousands of employees and their companies including Toyota, LandCare, Thomson Reuters and the Irvine Company.
The Cultivate 30-day Challenge puts the “human” back into human relations.
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Building on cutting edge psychological models for behavioral change, the Cultivate platform emphasizes daily “small actions” to effectively achieve desired cultural shifts.
Research tells us that it takes a minimum of 21 days of consistent actions to shift behavior.
Cultivate’s 30-Day Challenges create a fun, collaborative environment where employees are empowered and rewarded for demonstrating behaviors that support the mission and values of the organization.
The high adoption rate of the platform is directly linked to the immersive nature of the tool the professional AND personal growth experienced by the participants.
The Cultivate virtual community dashboard.
The Higher Ground Consultancy works within corporate organizations to discover, assess, align and activate values-driven culture. Of course, the most vital aspect of building culture is practicing culture on a daily basis. It’s one thing to profess our values but quite another to live them out within the organizational community.
We have developed a powerful, scalable digital platform that virtually connects people throughout organizations via desktop and phone and encourages individuals to develop the cultural “muscles” necessary to support corporate vision, mission and values.
Our Cultivate learning system invites individuals to take daily actions to support their organizations and grow values-based behavior. Their journeys are chronicled and shared with the broader community of their peers to create excitement and participation company wide.
The program brings the principles of gamification and eduction together in the form of ongoing values “challenges” that creates healthy competition and makes traditional, often mundane, training fun and personally rewarding.
