Our organizational transformation tools help you create a more holistic and successful organization that can support you in achieving your vision, objectives and positively impact your bottom line. These offerings include:
Leadership Development
Most organizations are in the process of transitioning from hierarchical, command-and-control structures to collaborative and dynamic networks where employees are empowered to think, innovate and make informed decisions. From the C-suite to first line supervisors, everyone in today’s highly competitive, fast-changing organizations needs to function as an accountable leader, whether or not they are in a managerial position.
At Unicursal Talent, all our programs are tailored and customized for your organization’s specific needs. We offer the following Leadership Development programs that touch every level of your organization.
- The Transcendent Leader: Evolving Leadership Paradigms for the C-Suite and Senior Executives
- Next-Level Leadership: The Art of Leading for Managers and Middle Managers
- Stepping Up to Leadership: The Art of Leading for First Line Supervisors, New Supervisors and Aspiring Supervisors
- Self-Engaged and Accountable: Leadership Competencies for Individual Contributors
- Integrated Leadership Academies: Creating Your In-House Leadership Development Program
- Leadership Access and Engagement: Address Unique Leadership Topics, Launch New Initiatives and Check the Pulse of the Organization.
Executive Coaching
Every person has a unique set of innate gifts and talents – their super-powers – that when harnessed and leveraged translate into high levels of performance, engagement, and fulfillment. This in turn results in greater personal and professional success and well-being.
More and more organizations are realizing the power of Executive Coaching to support leaders in being more effective in leading teams and producing results. Executive Coaching has become an integral component of many organizations’ suite of leadership development and performance management programs.
Unicursal Talent’s Executive Coaching approach blends mindfulness, neuroscience and thought leadership to help leaders make the shift from the classical mode of thinking to innovative quantum thinking.
Below are some examples of disciplines, competencies and skill areas included in Unicursal Talent’s Executive Coaching programs:
- Achievement of Initiatives, Projects, OKR’s and KPIs
- Leadership and Talent Management
- Visioning and Strategic Planning
- Culture Assessment and Design
- Career and Personal Brand
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
- Communication/Emotional Intelligence
- Team Building/Performance Management
- Creativity/Innovation Management
- Agility, Resilience and Change
“Coaching is a practice in which the coachee and coach collaborate to assess and understand the coachee and his or her developmental task, to challenge current constraints while exploring new possibilities, and to ensure accountability and support for reaching goals and sustaining development.”
Roberto Blain
Managing Partner, Talent Services
Strategic Planning
At Unicursal Talent, we offer high quality, cost-effective strategic planning programs that range from two to four-day retreats to long range strategic planning engagements. Every strategic planning engagement is specifically tailored to your organization’s unique needs.
Potential outcomes include:
- Internal and external strategic and operational assessments and discovery utilizing surveys, focus groups, town halls, etc.
- Identification of root causes, assumptions and limiting beliefs that are empowering or thwarting your organizational momentum
- Defining, re-defining or clarifying your organizational charter, including mission, vision, and values in a new way
- Conducting SWOT analyses and other fundamental elements of short, mid and long-term planning
- Scenario planning to evaluate different organizational possibilities and opportunities
- Articulation of key strategic objectives, goals, strategies and measures of success
- Identification of execution workstreams and accountabilities, and resource requirements
- Development of strategic communications and marketing plans
- Creation of operations plan
- Organizational branding efforts
Culture Assessment and Design
Organizations often experience a significant disconnect between their strategy and their organizational culture. Many place more emphasis on strategic and action planning, not realizing that culture assessment and design is just as critical. The importance of culture work to organizational effectiveness was highlighted by Peter Drucker, the renowned management consultant and scholar with his now-famous quote: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This was not an attempt to downplay the importance of strategy, but to highlight the critical importance of a healthy culture in ensuring organizational success.
As part of our comprehensive suite of services that support effective executive hiring, performance and retention, Unicursal Talent offers a culture design and assessment program called Culture Accelerator.
Our research-based, integrative program helps you build a culture that supports your leadership hiring and retention, while fostering engagement, well-being, satisfied and productive employees, and success for your organization.
Culture Accelerator begins with a simple-to-administer culture assessment that provides a window into your current cultural climate across four dimensions: people (engagement), customers (market), hierarchy (organizational controls, policies and procedures), and innovation (entrepreneurial acumen). Once you have a clear view of your culture map, we work with you to articulate an aspirational culture along with identification of the strategies, communication and change plans that will help you achieve it.
Our methodology includes the following elements:
- Reach consensus on your current organizational culture
- Reach consensus on a preferred future culture that is aligned with your mission, vision, values and strategies
- Determine what any changes will and will not mean
- Identify stories illustrating the desired aspirational culture
- Craft a strategic culture change agenda
- Highlight immediate small wins
- Explore leadership implications
- Develop metrics, measures and milestones to maintain accountability
- Identify a communication and change strategy