Moving from operational to strategic leadership in the Executive Team

THE BUSINESS THE CHALLENGE THE SOLUTION

Leading financial To sustain competitive advantage Conference Execution
protection insurer in UK; by building an effective leadership To facilitate development

selling income protection,

critical illness cover and
team which would: of trust between Executive
Team and Leaders
life insurance
TAKE OWNERSHIP Coaching and
Take ownership for running the business, education Sessions
freeing the Executive Team to focus on 40 60 leaders ringing
strategy in to telephone coaching
40 Formed over
40 years ago sessions to learn about and
discuss modern leadership
CHANGE CULTURE practice and its application
Break down the silo mentality and build
trust through the business
Action Learning
Working on real life
900 staff, GAIN EDUCATION business problems and
200 in leadership roles of modern leadership best practice to build processes, while being
200 effective leaders no more parent-child coached on best practice
interactions and learning

THE RESULTS

TEAM

Positive impact on Executive Team able to Operational leaders feel Staff recognised and More engaged
financial results of step away and be ownership of rewarded for their organisation
stronger leadership team more strategic business plan potential

High confidence in Filling top executive roles Pitch process is the best Leadership team reduced Silo mentality
Executive Team by staff through internal pipeline in the market in size but more effective broken down

THE QUOTE

The Unum Executive Team was
spending far too much time running the
business, and focused on operational
activities, and not doing the strategic
work which was critical for the business
to move forward
To start with, attendees were skeptical
of the value and they just went along to
see what was happening. By the end of
this time period, things had really pro-
gressed; people were much more open
and could see the value of applying the
learning.
We have created a more engaged organ-
isation which has confidence in the Exec-
utive and leadership teams and believes
that we will listen to them and engage
with them.

Peter ODonnell, CEO, Unum