Accountability
One of the definitions for leadership at West Point Military Academy is, “to get people to do what you want them to do”. This may seem like a simple statement but from our military and corporate experience it can be a difficult thing to accomplish. That is why our focus throughout our sessions will be to raise the level of corporate and personal ACCOUNTABILITY.
Our job is to have every person at this event be willing and choose to own the success of the companies’ vision and objectives and to reach an aligned understanding of those targets. Every person will be willing to say, “This is my company and I am responsible for everything that happens in it”. When you have this kind of thinking embedded throughout the organisation you become unstoppable.
This level of accountability is what made the elite US Ranger teams so successful. A six-man Ranger team was more successful and effective that one hundred of the military’s regular foot soldiers. Imagine what this kind of thinking could do to your business.
Alignment
If you ask twenty people in an organisation the same question you usually get twenty different answers. Now expand this dilemma throughout your company and what you have is a slow moving, ineffective machine. Clarity brings power and velocity! An organisation aligned around a single set of objectives with a shared understanding for those objectives generates breakthrough performance. This is the experience of alignment.
This one-day event will give your leadership team both an understanding and an experience of the possibilities that exist when they are aligned with something larger than their personal self. Through working and creating together your leaders will see the value and the necessity of the individual and at the same time how much more powerful individuals are when they come together as a team. Many times we have seen organisations design company strategy and objectives without the input of their team members, this approach though practical is ineffective in terms of the teams willingness to personally own and buy-in to the companies goals.
This coaching conversation will not only bring the team into alignment with organisational strategy but also give aligned meaning to the objectives. What motivates is meaning and motivation leads to action and results.
This concept is a program for quickly achieving significant performance gains inside an organization or team that positively impacts everything from employee morale to the bottom line.
In the process, the team looks back to their successes and disappointments in the past, and they translate these to new operating principles and commitment for the future. The team creates a new mindset, directed to producing results.
THE POWER OF THE SESSION
The power of the program to align people lies in factors that are unique:
- Align teams in clear communication
- Simultaneously working on both analytical and emotional levels.
- Genuine enthusiasm is a natural by-product of the workshop process when the group determines its collective future successes.
- Self-motivation.
- The structure automatically generates the buy-in of all participants; the process cannot move forward until unanimous buy-in is achieved at each major step in the process.
- Aligns people within the group and the group as a whole with key organization initiatives. Internal alignment impacts individuals, the team as a whole.