Cognician

Ever had a meaningful conversation that fundamentally changed your thinking and behavior? Imagine if everyone in an organization could have conversations like that!

We believe people are capable of great things when simple questions, powerful ideas and compelling emotions drive their behavior. And we've developed a system to help organizations activate behavior change globally.

To be competitive your organization needs to adopt best practices, and that depends on your people. But people are struggling to cope with unrelenting waves of change. Technology, strategy, business model, op model, org design, leadership, talent, culture – everything is changing faster than ever. Yet learning remains antiquated.

We saw this problem years ago. In 2006, we conducted a seminar at the University of Cape Town, to help MBA students think creatively about new product development. Students had been struggling with time-consuming, old-school learning methods. But at our seminar they were shocked that they could activate their creative agility instantly.

We looked for software to do this at scale. Finding none, we chose as our mission to become world leaders in activating behavior change at scale. Not just for the mental models underpinning creativity and innovation, but for any mental model.

Cognician activates employee behavior change through scalable, personalized, and data-driven digital experiences that achieve measurable change in 30 days or less. This behavior change approach, based on neuroscience, is grounded in action, follow-through, reflection, and social engagement. Cognician’s chat-based, interactive interface is user-friendly and guides employees to adopt new ways of thinking and action for personal development, team collaboration, innovation, and productivity. After practicing new behaviors the system asks people to reflect on their experiences. Because people learn more through reflecting on experiences than from the experiences alone. Through the system, people share insights that yield meaningful peer-to-peer, social learning. Users like the insights shared by their colleagues, and add comments. So what's been the impact of our work?

Allianz used Cognician to improve the speech skills and personal credibility of top performers. This generated a 21% increase in financial growth post-program.

The West Midlands Police used Cognician to help officers and the community adopt digital channels. The adoption rate doubled.

Since 2016 Accenture has used Cognician for onboarding new joiners. This resulted in a 5% productivity gain. They've also activated behavior change using more than 100 other Cognician programs.

In short, organizations struggle to adapt to change because change is hard. But when you use the right approach and right system, change can be immediate, significant and measurable. This is what Cognician specializes in delivering to clients globally.

If your teams are struggling to adapt to change and adopt ideal behaviors, reach out to us. We'll share our experience and help you achieve your strategic, organizational goals.