We rapidly move organizations to higher performance levels by reconnecting everyone’s work, and issues around work, to their natural sense of purpose. Organizational alignment grows when individuals’ aspirations and values meet and support the objectives of their organization.

The simple step of putting meaning clearly into the forefront of what people do is what stimulates new, decisive action. It immediately shifts individual and leader engagement toward what matters.

We reach alignment by focusing on fundamental dynamics between the leader and the team that affect their common purpose. We introduce easy-to-use tools so everyone can speak the same language of performance, initiative, and problem-solving.

The process of allowing individuals to connect to and share with others what they care about is what opens the potential for results not reachable before:

• Teams start managing themselves better; in short order, they can anticipate and sort through performance challenges and design and implement new solutions.
• There is less need for senior management to intervene in the details of their work. Leaders soon foster more effective coordination across teams because they can communicate a clearer sense of purpose that is now better connected to organizational strategy, how people work best, and how to resolve conflicts.

These two factors enable the organization to operate at greater achievement levels. They sustain performance better because everyone now clearly understands their purpose, strategy, culture, how work gets done, and the role of leadership. Leaders and teams can now rapidly determine performance gaps, agree on coherent solutions, i.e., solutions that make sense, and work together toward the same end goal.