Leadership & Culture Consulting - Hewsons Australia

The connection between an organisation’s leaders and its culture is well known.  Without the engagement in and ownership of your organisation’s culture by your leadership, efforts made will at best produce incremental results.

We use various modalities in our leadership and culture consulting work – straight consulting, coaching, programmes, workshops and seminars.  We work closely with your organisation’s leadership as well as its HR/People & Culture professionals to align intentions, actions and results.  Our commitment is always to bridge the gap between what an organisation espouses as their culture and the reality of bringing it to life in people’s day to day interactions with one another and stakeholders.

Development of Leadership & Culture Strategy

This is done with the organisation’s leaders and includes supporting the HR and People and Culture Managers in its implementation.  This work can commence with the development of the organisation’s Purpose, Mission, Values and Behaviours or work with existing material.  It often commences as a result of a leadership team participating in one of our team programmes.

Cultural Surveys

We customise our cultural surveys based on an organisation’s existing Values, Leadership Framework and desired behaviours.  These surveys allow an organisation to see where its cultural strengths and weaknesses lie and allow for the development of a clear strategy with targeted activities.

360-degree feedback surveys

These are also customised to reflect the organisation’s existing values and behaviours.  Our view is that introducing a one size fits all survey that references attributes and behaviours that are not directly related to what already exists in your organisation risks unclarity and confusion.

Team 360 survey

This survey involves getting feedback from a leadership team’s stakeholders – internal and external – on its performance as a team.  It provides valuable data on both the strengths and weaknesses of the team allowing targeted corrective action where needed.  This survey is often used prior to and at the completion of our Leadership Team Programme.

Business Leadership Team

Employee Workshops and Seminars

These are customised to support the integration of an organisation’s leadership & culture strategy and to build alignment and engagement with employees.

A New Way of Working (not employee engagement as you know it!)

Our work with leaders introduces them to new and effective approaches to communication, to being accountable and responsible, and with a deeper understanding of the foundations required for creating a high performance culture.

As a result of receiving many requests from our clients for engaging their people in this new way of working, Hewsons develops services to partner them in cascading the learning, and resulting culture, throughout their organisation.

“Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together."
Warren G Bennis
Pioneer of Leadership Studies

The services we create are designed to reinforce an organisation’s values and include group workshops, team workshops, 2-4 hour seminars, values and cultural surveys and the development of company Vision, Mission, Purpose, Values and Behaviours.

Please Contact Us to know more about our leadership & culture consulting.

You're in Good Company

“The team based seminar program together with the one-on-one coaching provided by Hewsons has been pivotal in refreshing our teams’ culture, and our ability to resolve issues with each other which in the past have been barriers to us working effectively together. As an example, my Team Leaders and I have been able to have authentic conversations and reach agreement about how we will hold one another to account, and how in turn each of them will hold their teams to account. When held to account, the team members have responded accordingly. Our people are lifting themselves out of being victims of their circumstances and are acknowledging their own part in unresolved issues or communications breakdowns, allowing everyone to resolve issues faster and with a lot less angst.”
Joe Thompson
Manager - Healthy Landscapes
Hunter Local Land Services