APPLIED ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPTS

In 1982, Rod Hess left Glen Mills Schools where he had been Director of Training, and began his journey on the Path of the Normative Leader when he founded Applied Organizational Concepts, a Pittsburgh, PA-based training and consulting company that specializes in organizational culture change/development. Over the past 45+ years, Rod has helped organizations in the fields of business, education, human services, and team sports, to apply simple, but powerful normative leadership skills to manage the change process more effectively and build a more dynamic organizational culture... It is called the organizational culture, the informal culture and the normative culture. It dictates "how things really happen" in your group, team or organization. If you manage it correctly, you can achieve great success. If not, it can destroy you. It takes leadership to change the culture, but most people are willing to just "turn a blind eye" and accept the status quo - no matter how bad it may be...

Also known as: Applied Organizational Concepts, Inc.