Cultural values and cognitive style

You had a great idea, and your team is now helping you to implement it. You have worked 10h days for the last month. Your boss is thrilled with the results. During the stand-up meeting, he recognizes everyone's work, and thanks to you all for the incredible job you are doing. Would you feel satisfied that speech, or would you prefer a statement where he highlights each individual contribution?

Your co-worker is treating you and another college incorrectly. You feel undervalued. Would you openly talk to him about how you feel?

Evaluate the first few questions and understand people's personal leadership tendencies and cultural values: Universalism vs particularism (Question 1 and 2): Do they feel comfortable working in very open and flexible environments? Do they enjoy working with clear instructions, rules processes, and procedures? Do they value personal relationships over rules? If someone breaks a rule and the person who broke the role is a family member, would that change the way act? If the answer is yes, their tendency is particularism. Individualism Versus Collectivism (Question 2): Do they Highly value people's time and their need for privacy and freedom? Do they want to get recognized as a team(B) or individually(A). Specific vs diffuse(5): If their answer was "No" they keep work and their personal lives separate. Neutral vs Emotional(4): Do they make a great effort to control their emotions(B)? If yes, their tendency is neutral. Achievement vs Ascription(6,7): Do they believe they become what they do? Is their status or role at the company important? Have they responded "yes" on step 6? They believe people should value them for who they are (title, role,..). If they have selected B in step 7 they are scoring high in ascription and therefore their title is important to them. Sequential Time vs Synchronous Time(8, 9): So they value punctuality and good planning? They tend to see things happen like a sequence of events while if they value flexibility(b) there are more likely to feel comfortable working in flexible spaces and in multiple projects at the same time. Internal Direction Versus Outer Direction(10,11): Internal tendency will indicate that they value their individual control(A) while an outer direction tendency will indicate that they believe the main control comes from external forces. Once you are done analyzing these questions add your notes here:

There are no good or bad answers. This will provide you with information about how you normally evaluate and gather information and how you use that information to make decisions.

There are 3 cognitive styles the knowing the Creative, and the planner. Some people are happiest predicting the future, others creating the future, and others prefer managing and choosing the right direction for their organizations. CoSI was designed keeping in mind these styles: Knowing: I want to have a full understanding of all problems. (Knowing) They focus on details and data. They enjoy finding clear and objective solutions and they excel at precision and detail. They are often slow at making decisions and are normally no great at innovation, adapting to change, or accepting multiple perspectives. Planner: "Developing a clear plan is very important to me." They focus on creating structure and are great at planing. They excel at developing processes, create agendas, and singing good tracking systems. They like to predict future outcomes and create rules and routines. Their weaknesses tend to be related to their inability to work in chaotic spaces. Creative: "I like to contribute to innovative solutions." (Creating) They enjoy creative spaces and work with people that take risks. They often look for new things. They focus on the action and are often doers, are also spontaneous, and focus in what is possible. They often break rules, make a lot of mistakes, and sometimes ignore data. We have divided these 3 cognitive styles in 3 cards (with different colors): Planner (Blue Cards):** How many cards do you have in strongly disagree or disagree? Add all the points based on the position of all the blue cards and divide the result by 7 Knowing (Pink Cards):** add all the points and divide the result by 4 Creative (Yellow Cards):** add all the points and divide the result by 7 Note: When a card is placed in 3 (those are points) People often strong in 1 or 2 cognitive styles. Once you are done add your notes here.

Verify your findings, schedule a meeting, and talk about how they feel more comfortable. Make sure to update your notes with the updated findings. Ask questions like: Do you want to be recognized individually or as a team? What is your relationship with people at work? Would you say that emotions are important at work to fully understand people and build a good culture? How do you feel about authority? How important is your title for you? Would you rather have more responsibility even if that is not reflected in your title? How comfortable do you feel with uncertainty? Would you say you are naturally good at organizing and planning? Do you believe you have full control of your destiny?

👉How do you help your multi-diverse and neuro-diverse team work together? 👉How do you encourage individualist and collectivism team members to work together?

Watch the TED Talk video and think about how your organization values would solve each dilemma. To better develop your cultural values keeping in mind diversity go to our "Seven cultural dimensions" tool.

👉How would you overcome cognitive bias?