Services for Organisations

Uncharted Leadership offers six core services to support individual, team and cultural development within organisations.

Programs

Organisation, team and cohort based, multi-modular interventions.

Facilitation

Support for teams and organisations deliberating issues and coming to decisions.

Coaching

Developmental dialogues and executive coaching delivered standalone or integrated into a program.

Keynote / Workshops

Focus content delivered through short standalone workshops and keynote presentations.

Growth Culture

Learning woven into the daily fabric of working life, rather than a separate program.

Trusted Advisory

Providing advice on program design, methodology, leadership architecture and more.

Programs.

Organisation, team and cohort based, multi-modular interventions. We think of programs as discrete, immersive learning experiences designed to transform the way participants 'make sense' of their experiences.

Our programs usually focus on transformative or vertical development designed to develop the adaptive or complex thinking abilities needed for leaders to be successful in VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) situations.

Programs are specifically designed to meet the needs of our clients and often incorporate organisational challenges, "Wicked Problems" or opportunities.

Our programs go beyond delivery of traditional content. We interweave innovative tools and practices with peer learning and discovery. We can combine elements of synchronous (face to face workshops) and asynchronous (virtual elements complemented by an on-line learning management system) into our programs.

The delivery also focuses on meeting the participants where they are at, connecting and leveraging existing knowledge and skills within the group.

3 steps to delivering successful outcomes.

1. Diagnose
We seek to understand your context, uncover what is currently working well and what might need to be enhanced.

2. Deliver
Design and deliver an intervention or program customised to your specific context that will have lasting impact.

3. Embed and Sustain
We want you and your people to be able to take responsibility for their ongoing development post program so we bake this in from the start.

Coaching.

Individual and team developmental dialogues and executive coaching to enable personal and team growth.

Uncharted Leadership recognises that as individuals progress along their development pathway, they often have unique needs. Our three service offerings seek to address these needs through providing purposeful, individual, developmental conversations. Our experience demonstrates that leadership conversations and executive coaching serve nuanced purposes and are underpinned by different but overlapping methodologies. Our approach is:

supportive and confidential,
provides thoughtful feedback,
with a systemic focus and a
commitment to best practice.

EXECUTIVE COACHING - We partner with you in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires individuals to maximise their personal and professional potential. Coaching supports you to to gain clarity and identify pathways through complex problems in order to take action and achieve.

DEVELOPMENTAL DIALOGUES - Enable mindset shifts and new world views which allow new situations to be embraced boldly. Together with a leadership consultant you can create, refine and share knowledge through deeper conversations. The shared insights that emerge are a source of growth.

TEAM COACHING - Bring your teams diverse perspectives together, enable collaboration and navigate 'tricky' problems that are getting in the way of success. Dialogue is cultivated and in doing so shifts the quality of interactions in noticeable ways, which fosters collective accountability for sustained performance.

Click here to contact us about Coaching

Growth Culture.

Learning woven into the daily fabric of working life, rather than a separate program. Everyone, everyday works on developing themselves, others and the organisation to achieve breakthrough performance.

In a Growth Culture there are deliberate efforts to build the conditions and practices of learning and development into an organisation’s daily operations.

Growth Culture is a collaborative process that develops the capacity of teams and organisations to meet the increasing demands of delivering transformational change, in a way that is scalable, repeatable, timely, cost effective and sustainable.

Key features of our Growth Culture approach:

Develop mindsets, not just skillsets
Involves everyone in the team or organisation in improving the culture, building accountability and shared responsibility.
Enables people to bring their whole selves to work, achieve meaning and connect to a greater purpose.
Creates a mature learning organisation.
Results in improved quality of service and increased business.
Complements more formal, traditional training and development focused on skillsets and knowledge.
Less reliant on external expertise

North Adelaide Local Health Network (on behalf of Northgate House Older Mental Health Services) was an example of where Uncharted partnered with SA Health to develop a pilot learning program to experimentally explore an innovative approach to health service learning and culture change.

As a result of our work, the service have been able to demonstrate measurable improvements:

The service is receiving compliment cards from client families.
A reduction of 50% of resources for particular tasks.
A reduction of false emergency calls within the service.
Significant improvement in those clients who appear agitated due to the introduction of cognitive type puzzles.
Staff sick leave reduced by 59%.
Staff continue to develop self in line with the vision.
Development of a ‘quiet’ (low sensory) room for residents.
Staff has increased by over 50% and the culture has been maintained.

Facilitation.

Support for teams and organisations deliberating issues and reaching decisions.

The team at Uncharted Leadership have decades of experience working with executive teams in government, universities, not-for-profit and private sector organisations.

In addition to ‘just’ facilitating a meeting, our deep knowledge and experience in strategic thinking/planning, complex adaptive systems, executive leadership, high performing teams, emotional intelligence, and appreciative inquiry supports teams and organisations deliberate issues and come to decisions.

We specialise in ...

What you can expect from us...

Strategic planning retreats

Scenario planning

Visioning sessions

Meetings to address contentious or difficult issues

Total confidentiality
Participation in the design of the agenda
Responsibility for maintaining the agreed-upon process
Help the group identify ground rules it wishes to follow and then holds the group accountable for following those rules
Responsibility for the group and its work, not to individuals in the group
Helps steer the group to its preidentified outcomes (e.g. decisions, next steps)

Keynote and Workshops.

Short standalone workshops and keynote presentations.

Workshops.

We design and deliver shorter workshops that can be delivered as stand-alone topics or incorporated as part of a larger portfolio of programs. Often these programs form a module of a larger leadership intervention.

Recent topics have included:

Leading in complexity
Not Knowing / Not Doing
Mindfulness
Adaptive leadership and adaptive capacity
Leadership effectiveness
Change
Complexity theory
Adult development
Navigating uncertainty

Keynote Speaking and Conference Presentations.

Speak to us to learn more about the keynote presentations and conference papers we have delivered.

Trusted Advisory.

Providing advice on program design, methodology, leadership architecture and more.

As Trusted Advisors we see ourselves as an extension of your team, always working in your organisation’s best interest to build internal capability, not long-term dependency.

As Trusted Advisor we provide:

Advice - On leadership/culture development including design, interconnection, structure, methodology and internal embedding and sustainability. We draw upon what we have learned but recognise that every organisation and context is unique and that no two development projects are the same.

Growth - Support those involved in the project at all levels to grow their own knowledge and capabilities.

Challenge - Being embedded but external allows us to model respectful challenge and candour in a safe but beneficial way.

"Our team had been tasked with developing, implementing and embedding a new service model that required significant stakeholder engagement and change management. We thought we knew what our problem was and we were looking for Uncharted to help us to think through how to implement it. After an initial meeting with Andrew Stevens we quickly realised we had jumped to a solution before really thinking the problem through. Andrew was able to provide us with the guidance, structure and tools to work as a team to build a shared understanding, work through our stakeholder mapping and engagement planning. The tools included ‘safe to fail experiments’ which provided specific data to inform next steps and determine priority decisions. Andrew facilitated the development of new skills and strategies within our team to work through a complex problem."

Stakeholder Engagement Manager

The following principles are core considerations for a successful Trusted Advisory partnership:

• Rank does not have its usual privileges (everyone is accountable)
• Everyone builds the culture all the time
• It is an iterative process; we continuously refine and improve (so it can feel messy)
• Learning is an important outcome
• Sustainably developing people and culture takes time and commitment; it’s hard work
• Leadership is critical
• Belief that everyone can grow