Organizational Alignment System™

Just like a car needs regular alignment checks to keep all four tires wearing evenly, organizations need every layer — leadership, teams, individual roles — pointed in the same direction. Skip the check, and one part wears down faster than the rest until something breaks on the road. Here at Unitas, we’ve dealt with our fair share of “tire” problems – so we built a fix.
After more than a year in development, Unitas built the Organizational Alignment System (OAS)™ to solve exactly that problem. This model takes into consideration the gaps in organizations that need to be filled in order for a company to grow and thrive as a whole. It focuses on aligning strategy, leadership design, work design and skill capital to build a high-performance organization. What sets it apart is that it's co-designed: your leaders are involved in every step, so the alignment isn't something handed down, it's something they help build — which means it actually sticks, even after any one leader moves on. We also ensure that all four dimensions – strategy, leadership, operations and talent – are in alignment, so your organization drives smoothly into the future. Let's dive in!
PILLAR 1: STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT
	You wouldn't start a road trip without a destination — yet plenty of organizations run that way, and it shows up as misalignment, duplicated effort, and reactive decision-making. Our Strategic Development facilitation fixes that in four steps: we start by listening to your key leaders and stakeholders to surface the real challenges already in play; we ground the planning sessions in what's actually happening inside
and outside the organization, not theory; participants then define the strategic pillars that will guide priorities; and finally, we help the team turn each pillar into concrete initiatives — who owns what, and by when. The result is a strategy your whole organization understands and can rally behind, not a document that sits on a shelf.
PILLAR 2: Leadership Design
Most organizations train leaders one at a time, but leadership doesn't function in isolation — it works as a system, and a misaligned system holds back even your strongest individual leaders. Pillar 2 builds that system in four phases: we discover and rank the gaps in how leadership currently operates through interviews and working sessions; we map the architecture of authority so every leader can see who's accountable to whom; the leadership team then co-
creates its own operating agreements — how decisions get made, how conflict gets resolved, how the team communicates — so they own it because they built it; and we close by designing the operating rhythms, or Meeting Ecosystem Design, that give every leadership level the right meetings, with the right people, at the right cadence. This isn't a training program — it's durable infrastructure for how leadership runs together.
PILLAR 3: Work Designs
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PILLAR 4: Skill Capital
Too often, hiring, development, and succession decisions get made without a clear picture of the capabilities an organization actually has. Skills Heat Mapping fixes that with a data-driven look at what your workforce can do today versus what your strategy requires. We start by defining the competency framework — reviewing your structure, strategy, and any existing skills frameworks with leadership;	*Insert Graphic*
then we collect skills data across the organization through assessments and team feedback; and from there we build a heat map that visualizes your strengths, your critical gaps, and where new capabilities are emerging. From that foundation, two optional next steps are available: individualized development plans that connect each employee's growth to what the organization needs, and a strategic roadmap that gives leadership a prioritized, executable plan for closing the gaps.
Four pillars, one destination: an organization that's aligned, accountable, and built to last. If your organization's tires are due for a check, let's talk — reach out to Unitas today and let's map out what OAS™ could look like for your team!