Growcer is a startup offering hydroponic container farms that enable portable year-round growing in all climates.
Their CEO, Corey Ellis, and COO, Alida Burke, approached Unicorn Labs in 2019 to educate management on how to lead their growing team through change and improve team dynamics.Prior to working with Unicorn Labs, Growcer's management team did not understand conflict management principles.
Growcer did not have a culture of feedback, which caused pent up resentment and conflict amongst team members. As a result, employee engagement was low—especially from those with reserved personalities who felt silenced by dominant personalities on the team.
Guided by the Unicorn Labs principles, Growcer’s management team rebuilt their workplace culture, gotten employee buy-in, and learned how to become more inclusive leaders who empower people of all backgrounds and personalities on their team. Now, they have management systems and processes in place to train future managers and provide ongoing support to their team. Growcer’s managers continue to do one-on-one
Growcer's engagement rate increased in all of the measured categories from 2019 to 2020. All employees were required to take an employee engagement survey before Growcer’s managers started the program and then again one year to measure its impact.
With the success and growth of our business came the expansion of our team. But with team expansion came a shift in team dynamics we weren’t ready for. Many of our managers were new or inexperienced and had never led people before. Their lack of leadership skills prevented them from effectively delegating and managing people with different personalities, ages, and strengths and weaknesses effectively.
The Unicorn Leadership Model gave us a system and strategy for training managers. It was unfair of us to promote people from employee to manager and expect them to know how to lead. They needed the tools to become effective leaders who guide employees in their career development journey.
The Unicorn Leadership Model educated our managers on conflict management and communication, and aligned our team on management processes that legitimized our business internally.
The training also helped our managers improve their emotional intelligence, allowing them to anticipate problems and coach their team members through challenges instead of neglecting them or attempting to solve their problems for them. This management skill has had a compounding effect on elevating the leadership capacity of our entire team across all levels of the organization.
You know the saying, “You don’t know what you don’t know”? Well, the Unicorn Leadership Model helped us identify and overcome leadership gaps that would have taken us a lot of trial and error to solve on our own, saving us time and turnover costs in the process.
This program has aligned our team culture in a way where everyone on the team is empowered to make decisions and own their development in their roles. Since working with Unicorn Labs, we have doubled the size of our team and have managed to retain all the employees who were involved in the conflict that caused us to invest in this training in the first place.
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Growcer is a startup offering hydroponic container farms that enable portable year-round growing in all climates.
Their CEO, Corey Ellis, and COO, Alida Burke, approached Unicorn Labs in 2019 to educate management on how to lead their growing team through change and improve team dynamics.Prior to working with Unicorn Labs, Growcer's management team did not understand conflict management principles.
Growcer did not have a culture of feedback, which caused pent up resentment and conflict amongst team members. As a result, employee engagement was low—especially from those with reserved personalities who felt silenced by dominant personalities on the team.
Guided by the Unicorn Labs principles, Growcer’s management team rebuilt their workplace culture, gotten employee buy-in, and learned how to become more inclusive leaders who empower people of all backgrounds and personalities on their team. Now, they have management systems and processes in place to train future managers and provide ongoing support to their team. Growcer’s managers continue to do one-on-one
Growcer's engagement rate increased in all of the measured categories from 2019 to 2020. All employees were required to take an employee engagement survey before Growcer’s managers started the program and then again one year to measure its impact.
With the success and growth of our business came the expansion of our team. But with team expansion came a shift in team dynamics we weren’t ready for. Many of our managers were new or inexperienced and had never led people before. Their lack of leadership skills prevented them from effectively delegating and managing people with different personalities, ages, and strengths and weaknesses effectively.
The Unicorn Leadership Model gave us a system and strategy for training managers. It was unfair of us to promote people from employee to manager and expect them to know how to lead. They needed the tools to become effective leaders who guide employees in their career development journey.
The Unicorn Leadership Model educated our managers on conflict management and communication, and aligned our team on management processes that legitimized our business internally.
The training also helped our managers improve their emotional intelligence, allowing them to anticipate problems and coach their team members through challenges instead of neglecting them or attempting to solve their problems for them. This management skill has had a compounding effect on elevating the leadership capacity of our entire team across all levels of the organization.
You know the saying, “You don’t know what you don’t know”? Well, the Unicorn Leadership Model helped us identify and overcome leadership gaps that would have taken us a lot of trial and error to solve on our own, saving us time and turnover costs in the process.
This program has aligned our team culture in a way where everyone on the team is empowered to make decisions and own their development in their roles. Since working with Unicorn Labs, we have doubled the size of our team and have managed to retain all the employees who were involved in the conflict that caused us to invest in this training in the first place.
