From small talk to sincere alignment creation
From business babble to committed alignment
Failure to communicate and misalignment lead to expensive losses for companies. Working on the wrong things costs money, time, and energy. When leaders do speak with their co-workers about their vision, this however doesn’t necessarily mean that all business levels and players are clear about the organization’s purpose and are able to perform in accordance with it.
Think about your own enterprise. Is your workplace a vibrant, happy place, with motivated people, or do your co-workers look more like zombies? Does your board of directors take ages to come to decisions? Do new projects stall, to die a sluggish death? Do you receive a lot of complaints, from both your customers and your employees? These are all strong indications that your vision alignment is going nowhere.
To make progress and reach goals, business leaders need to ground their vision in reality, in particular in relationship to others. As long as your ideas aren’t supported by your management team, employees and suppliers, your brainchild will remain nothing but a bunch of thoughts. To make your ideas and goals ‘owned’ by your entire workforce you need to enable a back-and-forth debate. Alignment is a shared responsibility between leaders and followers in a company.
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This ViCre workshop provides leaders with the right thinking frame and tools to effectively and efficiently communicate about their company vision. Project leaders often assume their teams understand perfectly what they are talking about. We nevertheless all have our specific, unique way of speaking and understanding. Complicating things in business is easy. Business leaders however need to clarify and simplify.
This alignment creation workshop is about making sure that everyone is pulling the same strings, by providing a common, shared language towards a collective goal. Together, we build a ‘Yes, and’-attitude, meaning that people have an open, yet critical attitude towards new or opposing ideas, but always consider how they can help make your ideas more feasible. This will enable your co-workers to translate your vision into personal, partial company goals.
The more you create awareness about where you want to go, the more dialectic your alignment process, the more your workforce will feel valued and understood. You will have created leverage and common ground for action. People will be committed. You as a leader now have the upper hand.
Deliverables
- Mental framework and tools for enhancing awareness and creating alignment about company vision and goals
- Joint group understanding of vision achievement a as common, shared responsibility
- A clear and managable overview of personal workloads in group
- Fuelled sense of personal initiative
- Common insight about vulnerability and transparency in business as a strength, not a weakness
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