Case Studies - Ugh, Work LLC
Culture Assessment
Business need: Growing financial firm needed clarity on cultural strengths and opportunities while ensuring leadership actions aligned with employee needs.
Our Approach:
- Administered targeted cultural assessment
- Synthesized actionable findings
- Facilitated leadership planning sessions
- Supported transparent communication through all-hands meetings
Impact: Leadership implemented specific improvements based on employee feedback, strengthening organizational alignment.
Team Performance & Development
Business need: Newly formed team in government sector needed to build cohesion and establish effective working relationships quickly.
Our Approach:
- Employee experience assessment
- Two-day workshop using positive psychology principles
- Team charter development
- Action planning with accountability measures
Impact: Team established clear operating principles and implemented new processes for ongoing collaboration.
PPerformance Culture
Business need: Growing law firm needed to enhance cross-functional collaboration while maintaining high performance standards.
Our Approach:
- Applied research-based team development principles
- Facilitated goal-setting workshops
- Established performance optimization check-ins
- Integrated evidence-based psychological practices
Impact: Enhanced cross-functional collaboration while maintaining focus on performance excellence.
CEO Strategic Alignment
Business need: A media startup CEO needed to identify the most promising direction while developing leadership capabilities to support growth.
Our Approach:
- Leveraged comprehensive psychometric assessments
- Conducted structured leadership interviews
- Applied evidence-based decision tools
- Developed targeted action planning
Impact: CEO successfully narrowed strategic focus and implemented a structured development plan aligned with business objectives.
Leadership Development
Business need: Public organization needed to rapidly develop a leader based on diverse stakeholder perspectives and business requirements.
Our Approach:
- Conducted comprehensive stakeholder interviews
- Synthesized feedback themes and patterns
- Integrated business context and objectives
- Co-created targeted development plan
- Established stakeholder alignment checkpoints
Impact: Created focused development roadmap with clear stakeholder buy-in and accountability measures.
Values-based operating model
Business need: Private equity organization needed to translate abstract values into concrete behaviors and operational practices.
Our Approach:
- Conducted cross-organizational interviews
- Synthesized current and aspirational themes
- Facilitated leadership values definition
- Created practical operating procedures
- Developed implementation roadmap
Impact: Established clear connection between stated values and daily operations, providing concrete guidelines for decision-making and behavior.