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Alignment is a simple, but a
complex set of factors that are in equilibrium now, and what
emerges is a product of these interations. To improve
alignment, there are 10 systems which dynamically engage.
While this subject is too complex
to deal with in a short TPOV, I wanted to just put a stake in
the ground for later and more sophisticated work that has to
happen from simple to complex-->Dynamic Alignment.
What most people call
engagement
is actually alignment and dynamic engagement at that.
Early on, Gallup Interviews
produced the now infamous Q12:
Here are the Gallup questions:
Q1. I know what is expected of me
at work.
Q2. I have the materials and
equipment I need to do my work right.
Q3. At work, I have the opportunity
to do what I do best every day.
Q4. In the last 7 days, I got
recognition or praise for doing good work.
Q5. My supervisor, or someone at
work, cares about me as a person.
Q6. There is someone at work who
encourages my development.
Q7. At work, my opinions seem to
count.
Q8. The purpose of my company makes
me feel my job is important.
Q9. My associates/fellow employees
are committed to doing quality work.
Q10. I have a best friend at work.
Q11. Recently, someone at work has
talked to me about my progress.
Q12. This last year, I have had
opportunities at work to learn and grow.
In all actuality, each person would answer these questions
differently, and with a different emphasis, producing an
"alignment" that emerges to produce behavior.
Over time, I identified questions
that begin to get at the more complex features of aligment:
LE1: Who Am I?
What are my end goals in life, work and leadership?
LE2: What is my
developmental skill level and what does it mean?
LE3: How do I
make and solve problems and is this bandwidth wide enough?
LE4: What has
me and how do I engage others effectively in that light?
LE5: How do I
instrument my means and ends goals through my value system?
LE6: What do I
do to engage others to create teachable points of view?
LE7: Is my
perspective-taking and decision-making integrally-informed?
LE8: Do I take
action on several levels geared to each level's specific need?
LE9: What is my
experience supporting in my leadership engagement?
LE10: Can I
juggle innovation and adaptability with sustainable
resilience?
LE 11: What
resources do I need to keep myself energized?
LE12: Why is my
thinking and feeling different now than it was last year?
While the concept of alignment is
often perplexing because we fall into and out of alignment,
FLOW can be produced with simple engagement methods as well as
more complex systems for "dense" environments which have noisy
systems and difficult to find signals.
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