Where it started
Our journey began as the company transitioned from ideation to become a commercially focused business. They wanted a human tech approach to truly understand their people beyond their qualifications, to help drive better teamwork and a united company wide culture.
WHO
A scientific research company leading the world in quantum computing
moving from ideation to commercialisation.
WHAT
Transitioning from a science and academia space to a commercial, results-driven business with 10-year milestones. Humanico was challenged to help understand their people as people, build company wide culture and increase the capability maturity of teams.
The brief
- Understand people from a human perspective, not just credentials
- Satisfy natural scepticism from scientific/academic group
- Build company wide culture in an individualised industry
- Increase capability maturity and support leaders in leveraging strengths
How it's going
HOW
We provided comprehensive metadata to satisfy their scientific approach while working closely with the CEO. We established the baseline Human Map, attended the Humanico Launch for additional support, engaged leaders first to build confidence, and built out skills taxonomy for deep scientific roles.
RESULTS
100% participation from naturally sceptical academics and engineers. Humanico transformed how we understand our team dynamics and broke down silos through a common strengths language.
With 100% participation, the insights into composition, teaming and capability defined a baseline for their transformation journey.
- Common language through strengths broke down silos and politics
- Strategic insight: significant skew towards Strategic Thinking and Learning revealed optimisation opportunities
- Communication gap identified leading to immediate targeted initiatives
- Board reporting in weeks, not months on engagement and intervention
- Comprehensive data for leadership to validate people decisions and drive intervention strategies
Thanks to Humanico’s expertise and dedication, we have been able to recognise areas for improvement and through identifying our collective strengths, our collaboration has increased. This is only the start of our journey. Building the right culture for our team is a continual work in progress that includes investing in our people and their sense of fulfillment of being part of something bigger than all of us. Humanico's support has been invaluable in helping us create a cohesive and motivated team.
