Teams
Aligning your Teams
When individuals experience discord, the teams they make up feel out of sync. The A-lign Approach™ really comes to life when it’s taught in a group. It helps teams see themselves by seeing contrast, and understand others better through
shared language.
Teams who learn this approach work more optimally through improved communications, decision-making, work culture, and productivity.
What is Shared Language?
It's a common reference point, a place to build from where everyone is on the same page using the same keywords, definitions, and identifiers. It's a foundation for team cohesion.
Many teams adopt frameworks giving employees a sense of self, they receive a colour or acronym to call their own — where these models fall down is the integration with others. What this means when navigating the day-to-day.
Shared Language means you not only understand yourself but also those around you making you a better manager, colleague, employee, and team member.
The A-lign Approach™
A methodology and program resulting in enhanced team cohesiveness, leading to more effective organizations.
We begin at the individual level — understanding our modes of operating, preferences, and unique styles. We have to know ourselves before we can expand our reach to the ways these learnings can be applied to a team — we work inner to outer. Narrow to broad. Also known as the classic A-line.
A-lign Approach for Teams is a comprehensive program that deep dives into key frameworks for developing shared language within a team, leveraging strengths, and bridging gaps in communication.
Bringing your team back into alignment.
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The first step is to deepen our understanding of our unconscious patterns, strengths and blindspots. Then we can begin to leverage them and be more intentional in how we function, interact, and work.
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Unleashing the power of shared language, we start putting words to our strengths. We use our new vocabulary to build bridges where there were once gaps in communication and forge new pathways to collaboration and clarity within your team.
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This is where the real magic happens. We take our learnings and integrate them into your unique team dynamic. Mapping a path forward for how you work, meet, collaborate, and interact.
The Manual
The Manual
Whoever said “life doesn’t come with a manual” has never taken the A-lign for teams program.
At the end of our 8-week program, teams will receive a user manual for each employee as well as integration training on how to interpret their unique dynamics, and create work plans, restructure their meetings, and navigate internal comms more effectively.
Why you need this
High-performing company culture leads to 4x larger revenue growth.
Employee engagement is at an all-time low. Train your teams to retain your teams.
Your team is unique, learn to identify both your strengths and superpowers and your gaps/blindspots so you can find greater balance.
Conflicts happen, but what if you could anticipate areas of conflict/inefficiency and heal them before they arise.
Other frameworks can be cumbersome and hard to recall or apply in the moment. InterStrength gives you a shared language that is easy to grasp, remember, and apply.
The Models
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Interaction Styles™ is a powerful framework for professional and personal development that brings to light everyday differences that are at the root of much of the conflict we experience in interaction with others, particularly in the workplace. It refers to how we do what we do and what drives us, putting language to the ways we go about trying to get things done and how we interact along the way. This model addresses our unconscious Core Drives, Aims, and approaches; Natural strengths; Decision-making styles; Communication dynamics regarding how we influence others; As well as role dynamics, and where we naturally put our attention when trying to get things done.
Tools:
* Decision-making differences + impacts
* Improved communication & influence
* Navigating conflict & stress
* Clarified conditions for productivity
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Essential Motivators™ is a profound model that unlocks what we each need to show up at our best and most energised, especially at work. It refers to why we do what we do, helping us identify the inherent, natural talents we bring to the table, often without realising and regardless of role or industry. This lens pinpoints our unconscious Core needs for thriving at work (and in the world); explores the roles we take in relation to people and tasks; how we tend to convey and understand information, and the implications of this on a team.
Tools:
* Clarify & leverage unconscious talents
* Navigating conflict & deeper stress
* How to motivate yourself & your team, authentically
* The hidden roles we take on when interacting & their implications
The difference A-lign can make
Your team is feeling out of sync.
Communication is breaking down.
Decisions feel harder to make.
Productivity is waning.
Your culture feels disjointed and forced.
You’re finding it hard to motivate and get motivated.
➢ Your team is working more optimally with improved communication, and cohesiveness.
➢ Decision-making feels smooth.
➢ You’re able to motivate others by tapping into their core drives and talents.
➢ Your team feels seen, understood, and productive.
Before following the A-lign for teams program
After following the A-lign for teams program
What to Expect
Participants will unlock their (often unconscious) core drives and aims, inherent decision-making styles and how to navigate conflict within their unique team. Leveraging the framework to better understand themselves and others and the implications of these different Styles playing out in the workplace. The model additionally imparts the importance of managing our energy, stress triggers, strengths and blindspots through self-awareness and compassion. Bridging potential gaps in team culture and effectiveness through deepened empathy and creating psychological safety.
FAQ
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In our sessions we cover a wider range of topics but the fundamentals include:
Drives, energizers, and unconscious aims and how they unfold in day-to-day tasks
Communication dynamics: the unconscious language patterns we use to influence others
The Four Decision-making Styles and how they play out on a team
Key stress trigger categories and antidotes for each
Untapped talent and skill sets within your team that you might be missing
Role dynamics and the unwritten hierarchy you don’t see in your org chart
Areas of Conflict, how to respond, and ways to bridge the gaps
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Our sessions will be held as Zoom meetings to facilitate round table discussions, breakout rooms, and interactive activities. In-person program is also available in some cases.
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While the foundational information regarding the InterStrength Models remains the same, each workshop series can be customized as we map out the unique ecosystem of your team. We create activities based on real problems and team-specific dynamics. There is the option to add on 1:1 coaching in between workshops to get each team member to their clearest and most energized.