Are sites, departments or teams
in conflict with each other?

Are company, department, team
and individual goals misaligned?

Is the organization's capability
out of alignment with the
organization's strategy?
 

Has this got you worried
projects won't be successful,
things will get worse,
you won't achieve
your goals?

Have you run out of
ideas, time, patience?

There are two things you need to do.

Step 1

Alignment Assessment

Understand exactly what is going on via an
objective assessment from a neutral outside
party who gathers input from multiple
stakeholders, uncovers blind spots,
defines key issues & opportunities
and suggests practical next steps
 

Step 2

Alignment Workshop

Put people from your departments into highly
productive, innovative forums led by a
skilled, neutral external facilitator who
 surfaces root causes of disconnects,
stimulates new solutions, builds
bridges between groups

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Alignment Assessments
Alignment assessments are often done through web based surveys, phone or in-person interviews, document reviews and direct observations. Input is typically obtained from customers, suppliers, staff and other key stakeholders. 

The input gathered can include identification of key issues, disconnects, customer dissatisfaction and organizational blind spots as well as suggestions for improvement.

Types of assessments available include:

- Organization Assessments

- Business Practices Assessments

- Process Assessments

- Project Assessments

- Team Assessments

The assessments culminate in a visual report showing strengths, marginal areas and weak spots plus practical recommendations for moving forward.

A follow up progress check-in two weeks and one month later with the project sponsor and leader is included free of charge.

Alignment Workshops
Alignment workshops are often conducted in a series of weekly 2-4 hour sessions.  If the situation is urgent, a complete workshop could be held in 8-16 hours in a week or as a weekend retreat.

In every workshop, representatives from the relevant departments work together to learn new strategies and tools and apply them to the interdepartmental improvement task they have been assigned.

Between workshop sessions, one-on-one meetings are held with the project sponsor and project leader to discuss emerging issues related to buy-in, commitment, barriers to progress as well as recognize good contributions and results.

Typical interdepartmental workshops address one or more of the following improvement tasks.


- Goals and metrics alignment

- Points of contact clarification

- Rules of engagement agreement

- Roles & responsibilities clarification

- Customer communications alignment

- Hand offs improvement

- Interdependencies management

- Process design or improvement

- Working globally/virtually

- Best practices sharing & deployment

- Lessons learned capture & deployment

The workshops culminate with a visual presentation to management of improvement recommendations, success metrics, an implementation plan, implementation responsibilities, expected risks and a proposed progress assurance process.