Collaboration Within Your Organization
From the most strategic initiative, to the most tactical project, no vision or mission provides sufficient clarity to guide every decision on the details of what, when, how, who.
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There is no such thing as 'an aligned team' - although it's an ideal that we strive for. The initial Alignment Index for groups we've measured has been between 44 and 83 on a 100 point scale. At the level at which people choose to act we are never fully aligned. The key is accepting mis-alignment, learning why, and translating the knowledge into maximum aligned action. Within organizations, collaborations (strategy development, programs, projects, initiatives, decisions, etc.) may involve multiple persons within a single department, or across functions, stovepipes, business units, and other internal structures - coming together to design an endorsed set of common objectives and agreeing on the roadmap of actions to accomplish them. Non-Like-Mindedness Conventional wisdom advocates that groups and teams are assembled for their diversity of experience, style, education, knowledge - the unintended side effect is that we are deliberately designing teams that will not be of like mind. The key is understanding where like-mindedness does/doesn't exist so that we can converge on agreed action. Mixed Motivations Groups are involved in mixed-motive, non-zero sum games. The thoughts and actions of each individual are driven by several concurrent motivations - a desire to satisfy my customer, my organization, my colleagues, my family, myself. These nano-decisions are being made in situations where the individuals are trying to make 1+1+1 be greater than 3. Symptoms of misalignment are:
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