Alignment of People to Purpose & Performance 4 Profit
Your Organizational Aim
Like many organizations, YOU are filled with the drive and best intentions to implement strategies that will positively impact the bottom-line. The independent issues that hinder YOUR intentions could be one of many, such as…
• Poor implementation of strategies
• Low service levels
• Silos
• Reduced morale
• Fear of change, Constant change
• Meager operational efficiencies
• Just plain stuck
All4One™ Organizational Alignment
The very foundation of true alignment is the alignment of your PEOPLE.
Our process begins with building the skills of your leaders, guiding them to have REAL conversations. Why do this first? Because it is through REAL conversations, and dialogue with others, that your leaders and employees can begin to take ownership for their contributions.
Setting aside their egos, leaders engage in lively debate. They learn to safely challenge the status quo and to introduce creative thinking, even radical thinking! They move beyond mediocrity and the “always done it this way” mentality and learn to passionately engage in developing forward-thinking strategic plans. Learning the art of REAL conversations, your people are aligned with the confidence and courage they need to tell the truth, confront the brutal facts, debate solutions, and push the envelope to develop innovative, beneficial and profit-generating plans.
Clearly Telling the Story, Clearly Aligning with Your Strategy
With the confidence needed to engage in REAL conversation, we begin the work of aligning people to PURPOSE, as defined by YOUR strategy and direction. We translate your strategy and tactics into easy-to-understand visual descriptors and a complementary process.Why this kind of seemingly fundamental exercise? Because most Executives and Senior Leaders struggle to articulate their strategies or tactics in a way that is easily understood by all- and if they can’t, neither can anyone else. Implementing the steps of strategic and tactical goal alignment, your strategy story becomes simple and memorable, enabling your leadership to speak with one voice about key objectives, while making the story meaningful for any audience. When strategic clarity is achieved, your leadership can begin to identify the core behaviors that will drive the execution of your strategy and most significantly impact YOUR profit-generating priorities.
We all know that the best made plans depend on practical behaviors and rigorous action to drive conceptual plans to concrete delivery.
In working with organizations, we have found, “at least 90% of people don’t align organizational behaviors to the strategy.”
Cascading the Message to Achieve Solution-Based Goals
Once the strategic goals are in place and behaviors defined, YOUR Leaders engage in cascading the strategy story through Align4Profit’s proprietary Solution-Based Dialogue with their teams.
Engaging in our Solution-Based DialogueTM process requires team members to be involved. Involvement is necessary because it’s the only way leaders will drive accountability.
Knowing that the whole is only as good as the sum of its parts, it is now, with strategic, tactical and behavioral alignment in place that we find ourselves at the stage of implementing personal alignment to PERFORMANCE expectations. This occurs when everyone within the organization clearly understands the key objectives and how their unique day-to-day efforts contribute to the achievement of those objectives. People are motivated to execute a strategy and will be accountable to their role in its execution.
In personal alignment, learning is integrated into the performance management process and becomes a living part of each individual’s scorecard. Each team member is aligned and accountable to their own performance.
Result: Alignment to purpose and performance through All4OneTM Alignment that gives individuals a sense of value and the knowledge that their efforts are making a meaningful difference on the organization’s results.
Alignment at Ground Zero
What is All4One Alignment? It is a team of people who have a clear understanding of their contribution to the strategic plans of the organization. It is a group of people pulling in the same direction, aiming for the same goal, and working as a collective force to make the execution of strategy easier. All4One Alignment is a community of people actively engaged and leaving the workplace each day gratified by knowing they have fully contributed to the organization’s success, and that their ideas, actions and words have made a difference.With personal commitments in place, you take the final step toward aligning your teams, making them functional and cross-functional for profit. You engage your team to demonstrate the core behaviors that will drive results, because behavior lies at the root of critical business issues.
That’s why the final step is for your teams to learn the Think.Act.TalkTM skills that result in implementing the critical behaviors at their best. These are skills like taking and driving accountability, motivating engagement, giving and receiving feedback, harnessing conflict, and speaking a common language aligned to the organization’s profit-generating priorities. Behavioral alignment allows people to keep commitments and connect with others. They know how to align their collective efforts to generate true synergy from their combined knowledge and experience.
You achieve All4OneTM Alignment.
The core issue and differentiating factor of aligned organizations appear when engaged and accountable actions, behaviors, activities and communications practiced by employees produce the following sensational results:
• Improved Profits
• Strategic Implementation
• Enhanced Service Levels
• Full Optimization of Resources
• Stellar Operational Efficiencies
• Sustainable Growth
Aligning for PROFIT is the result
of aligning PEOPLE through PURPOSE & PERFORMANCE!
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