Case Study: ORAU builds trust and teamwork with Energage Catalytic Coaching

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ORAU, a consortium of 122 Ph.D.-granting universities, was looking for a better way to bridge the gap between employees and management after a baseline survey showed low trust and weak relationships across the organization. The company also found its traditional performance review process to be overly critical, reactive, and out of step with its innovative culture, so it turned to Energage and its Catalytic Coaching solution.

Energage implemented Catalytic Coaching to help ORAU build stronger manager-employee relationships through coaching, mentoring, and training. After benchmarking, focus group testing, and coach certification, the program helped create a more open, cooperative environment and gave managers a constructive way to develop employees; ORAU reported improved teamwork, trust, and leadership effectiveness, with CEO Andy Page calling it “the performance management system of the future.”

ORAU

Andy Page

Chief Executive Officer