Unilever Leadership: Coaching and High Performance Work Culture

This report examines the critical role of leadership in cultivating a high-performance work culture within an organization, using Unilever as a case study. It highlights the value of such a culture, including improved employee attitude, enhanced cooperation, competitive advantage, and reduced employee turnover. The report delves into appropriate coaching and mentoring techniques, emphasizing the importance of identifying employee needs, defining clear goals, creating action plans, mobilizing resources, seizing opportunities, measuring results, and providing constructive feedback. Ultimately, the report concludes that effective leadership is essential for managing diverse teams and achieving organizational success by fostering a supportive and high-performing work environment. Desklib provides access to similar reports and study resources for students.

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Table of Content
 Introduction
 Value of high performance work culture
 Appropriate coaching and mentoring techniques
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Leadership is the process of influencing the employees and providing them
direction to achieve the goal of organisation. It is important to note that there is
need of motivating leader to maintain high performance work culture (Daniëls,
Hondeghem and Dochy, 2019). An organisation that has good leader that manages
all the employees is more successful. In order to complete this presentation
Unilever is taken into consideration

Value of high performance work culture
 High-performance work culture includes the individuals that work
hard in order to achieve the goals and objectives by working hard. It
is seen that employees are highly engaged and there is trust among
teams that is due to quality leadership being provided to them.
 The value of high performance work culture in an organisation are as
follows:
 Better employee attitude: The employee take responsibility and try
to improve the performance. They work harder and try to enhance the
quality of products and service of the company.

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 Better cooperation inside and outside the organization: There is
better coordination seen in the organisation. The employees are able to interact
effectively with the customers, collogues and that is beneficial for the
organisation.
 A better organization: It is seen that when there is high performance work
culture found in an organisation then they are unique from others (Bendickson
and et.al., 2017).

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 Competitive advantage: It is important to note that there is
high competition present in market. The culture of organisation
has direct impact on competition of the place.
 Less employee turnover: The organisation that provides high
performance work culture to the employees generally face the
advantage of less turnover.
 Well functional organisation: There are so many function that
an organisation performs. The company that has high
performance work culture is able to gain advantage

Appropriate coaching and mentoring
techniques
 Coaching focuses on the task and he performance of
employees. It is seen that the goals set that are specific and
concrete. The various techniques that are used by coach and
mentor are as follows:
 Identify the needs: Coaching and mentoring focuses
on analysing the needs and wants of employees. By interacting
with the staff members the organisation is able to know about
the weakness of employees.

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 Define the goals: To develop the skills of
employees, it is necessary to define clear goals. There is
need of setting clear goals and then communicating them to
the employees.
 Create an action plan: For development of employees it is
necessary to create an action plan. It includes the skills and
areas that need improvement.
 Mobilise the resources required: The process of coaching
and mentoring requires various resources.

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 Grab the opportunities: There is need to identify the
opportunities that are present for the employees.
 Measure the results and benefits: It is necessary to monitor the
performance of employees.
 Provide feedback: Feedback plays a vital role in success and
development of employees. As the leader of organisation knows
about the work that is done by the employees. If they provide
regular feedback to the employees than they are able to know
about the mistake (Bortnowska and Seiler, 2019).

Conclusion
 From the above report it can be analysed that there
is need of leader in an organisation. The leader
plays a vital role in managing the organisation. It
is seen that an organisation has various people that
are diverse from one another.

References
 Bendickson and et.al., 2017. High performance work systems: A necessity for
startups. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 27(2), pp.1-12.
 Online
 Strategies and Techniques for Mentoring and Coaching, 2018. [Online] Available
through: <https://smallbusiness.chron.com/strategies-techniques-
mentoring-coaching- 23317.html>

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