Organizational Consulting & Training
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Meet Dr. Alise Cortez, Founder of Gusto Now!
Gusto, Now! is founded and led by Dr. Alise Cortez, our Chief Ignition Officer. She is an organizational psychologist and logotherapist, inspirational speaker, researcher, author, and host of the Working on Purpose podcast.
An American, she lived in Spain and Brazil whose warm and passionate cultures and languages inform her “gusto” practices today. Having developed her expertise within the human capital / organizational excellence industry over the last 25 years, she is focused on enabling organizations to lead from purpose and create cultures activated by meaning that inspire impassioned performance, fulfillment, and significance while encouraging a devoted stay within the organization. She has helped develop and transform dozens of organizations, and thousands of managers and executives in their leadership along the way. She speaks English (native), and Spanish and Portuguese conversationally.
Human and Organizational Transformation Consultancy Services Methodology
Gusto Now! equips leaders to activate meaning and purpose in their organizations through a 4-part model. One or all may be applied, depending on your desired outcome.
Phase 1 – Enliven
Symptoms your company may benefit from this offering:
- Low employee engagement
- Poor employee performance
- High attrition
- Little to no innovation
- Poor customer satisfaction
Consulting application:
- Purpose and Culture assessment and analysis
- Facilitated session to refine and align the team on Purpose, Mission, Vision statements
Results:
A clarified and shared understanding of the company’s Purpose, Mission, Vision that inspires increased commitment to the company and motivation to perform in service of its purpose.
Awareness of strengths and opportunities for improvement in culture and operations.
Increased team solidarity, inspired to realize a brighter future together.
Phase 2 - Enlighten
Symptoms your company may benefit from this offering:
Leadership team is motivated to address issues learned in Phase 1 assessment to improve business operations.
Consulting application:
People process audit is performed to evaluate effectiveness and seek ways to better “humanize” the employee experience of recruitment, onboarding, training, promotion, recognition, etc.
Results:
Company has vital intelligence with actionable recommendations to improve the full employee experience and step on the path toward creating a culture anchored in meaning and purpose.
Phase 3 - Empower
Symptoms your company may benefit from this offering:
There is a gap between leadership and managerial acumen to steward a workplace anchored in meaning and purpose that is equipped to address issues identified in the Purpose/Culture assessment and people process audit.
Consulting application:
Vitally Inspired: Living and Leading Through Meaning and Purpose ™ program — designed to awaken leaders to their passion and purpose and infuse inspiration into their leadership expression.
Managing Through Meaning ™ program — teaches essential management practices like setting goals, delegating to grow the team, providing feedback that empowers, while further activating their ability to summon meaning in the everyday moments on the job.
Ongoing tracking and improvements application to people processes identified in Phase 2.
Results:
Inspiring leaders and managers of meaning are growing everywhere in the company, and they know that for all boats to rise and the company to realize its vision, so they are now activating the ongoing growth and development of each person’s potential.
Leaders have developed critical communication abilities to effectively enroll people into the company’s purpose and vision and inspire engagement and performance among all employees to realize its mission.
They have learned how to discover and activate meaning on a daily basis for themselves and for their team members to increase energy and motivation.
Phase 4 – Employ
Symptoms your company may benefit from this offering:
Collaboration with the larger eco-system of all stakeholders is lackluster or conflicted
Leaders recognize the cultural transformation toward meaning and purpose requires enrolling and aligning all stakeholders to the company’s purpose, mission, and vision.
Consulting application:
Grab Your Gusto professional development and wellbeing program – weekly “mini” lessons teaching through short videos and application exercises employees to activate meaning, passion, and purpose delivered digitally to all employees (also offered as a stand-alone program).
Parliament of Purpose Assembly — Leaders identify all stakeholders in the eco-system and map their desired roles and contributions. A dynamic meeting among representatives of each of the stakeholder communities (employees, customers, suppliers, investors, partners, community members, and is facilitated to dynamically enroll and align on the company’s purpose, mission, and vision. “visioneer for a greater purpose” among all parties.
Ongoing Leadership Coaching – to support and fortify ongoing exercise of Vitally Inspired and Manage Through Meaning programs and address individual learning needs while guiding learning and discussion to their respective teams to apply Grab Your Gusto content.
Results:
Serving as an employee benefit/learning tool, the ongoing infusion of content arouses and “lifts” everyone in the company, stoking their appetite for ongoing growth and the further realization of their potential, while fortifying the company’s cultural transformation anchored in meaning and purpose.
Discover current and possible new ways of alignment and mutual support, creating a tighter, strong fabric among the stakeholder community to fortify company operations and realize its purpose toward its vision as executed through its mission.
Leaders and managers are increasingly equipped and sustained over time to continue nurturing their teams while growing themselves as inspirational, effective leaders stewarding a culture of meaning and purpose.
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Organization Workshops & Training
Equipping people and organizations to be vitally alive, vastly fulfilled, and wildly effective.
Our programs teach people practical skills like effective communication, handling conflict, working from their strengths, strategic thinking, developing creativity, teamwork and collaboration, managing teams, and leading organizations. Any and all we offer include content designed to increase the capacity to experience more meaning, passion, purpose, inspiration, joy, gratitude, wonder, and awe to develop a fuller human being, who is then equipped to relate, create, and perform on a much higher level.
Executive Leaders Training
Vitally Inspired: Living and Leading from Meaning and Purpose
It’s a new frontier, and thriving in today’s business world requires conscious, inspirational leadership, a keen understanding of the workforce’s needs and wants, and a whole, new cultural playbook anchored in meaning and purpose.
You need a set of strategies and applications that enable you to create an experience in your organization where your people give their best, feel fulfilled in their work and relationships, can work toward realizing their potential, and will persevere alongside you along the way. Not only will you be completely rejuvenated and elevated by exercising this kind of agency, but your business will be radically enlivened and realize better results.
Meaning and purpose are a powerful mixture to unleash the potential of everyone in your stakeholder community while breathing vital breath back into your own lungs. Here is your opportunity to transform the Great Resignation into your Great Revitalization.
Managers Training
Manage Through Meaning: The Power of Nurturing Connection, Fulfillment and Growth
For many, work has become a negative four-letter word, and the workplace is often described as a soul-draining space. According to the Gallup Organization, just 33% of individuals feel engaged in their work, leaving a significant number essentially "living dead" as they navigate their days – a reality that likely includes a substantial portion of your organization's workforce.
The predominant reason cited for leaving a job is the employee's manager. Despite this, organizations frequently allocate minimal time and resources to develop their managers, who play a crucial role in meeting their team's needs and effectively overseeing their performance. However, there's a potential to reshape these discouraging patterns. In a world where emotionally intelligent, well-prepared managers are essential, the call is for individuals who guide their team members toward greatness while providing unwavering support to those contributing their skills to fulfill the organization's mission.
People find their highest motivation levels when they can link their work to a larger purpose and mission. This is where you, as a capable and compassionate manager, step in. By fostering this connection, you can be the driving force that empowers your team to reach new heights.
Teams Training
Modes of Engagement in Teams
Do you understand your personal connection to the work you do? What about the unique way each of your team members experience meaning in their work and connect to it? The way you and your team members experience work can be incredibly empowering, unleashing tremendous energy and creativity – or dismally draining and soul-sucking.
The meaning ascribed to work has a powerful, synergistic impact on how we experience its relationship to our personal identity – that is, who we are, how we think of ourselves, and how we engage with the world. And that connection between our work and how it informs our personal identity drives our decisions, behavior, and overall effort.
Participants learn their own current mode of engagement, realize the pros and cons that accompany it, and consider ways to adopt other modes of engagement that can better suit their values and goals, if change is desired. Whether your current mode of engagement is your ideal, this program allows both the organization and the individual to discover ways to enable a more fulfilled, engaged, and productive workplace. Based on Dr. Cortez’s research, yielding 15 Modes of Engagement.
Strengths-Based Teams Training
While many professionals recognize they must “overcome weaknesses” to have a successful career, they often do so at the expense of maximizing their strengths and thus miss the opportunity to thrive in their organization. By way of synergy, organizations that foster a culture grounded in strengths also register greater levels of productivity, innovation, and retention.
When employees are encouraged to do tasks they really enjoy, they experience increased intrinsic motivation and longer periods of concentration, and thus persist at tasks longer – all of which propel creativity and productivity. Leaders who help each person discover and understand their strengths and find frequent ways to use them at work unleash passion and create a team dynamic that people desperately crave. Strengths-Based leaders seek, prize, and lean on distinctive talent that stands out, especially from their own.
Looking for ways to constantly leverage the bundle of different ways team members think, feel and behave becomes the lens of a Strengths-Based Leader. Employs Gallup’s Strengths assessment.
Mastermind for Business Leaders/Owners
It’s lonely at the top, and as a leader you need constant, ongoing training and a safe and confidential space to share your concerns and get advice and ideas from fellow leaders.
Groups meet monthly with agendas that include: subject-matter-expert sessions, hot seat showcases featuring a member’s challenge or opportunity for input, brainstorming and problem solving, personal and professional development, and goal setting and accountability, among other areas. Offered in Dallas and other cities and virtually.
Full Organization Training
Grab Your Gusto: Vitality and Well-Being from the Inside Out
A webcast learning platform (live and recorded) designed from Dr. Cortez’s Purpose Ignited book content to develop the capacity of each individual in the company to nurture passion, inspiration, meaning and purpose – vital ingredients for well-being.
Customizable packages include weekly video webcasts, a library of audio podcasts, and experiential exercises to apply the learning.
Ideal to address or avoid burnout, low motivation or productivity, and mental health issues while demonstrating your care, support, and commitment to well-being and ongoing development. Offered as a subscription service.
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