Aligning on Organizational Performance
This method helps leadership teams align on a shared definition of "organizational performance" to avoid conflicting priorities. It ensures that teams are working towards the same goals and optimizing for the same outcomes.
Use this when you sense misalignment among executives regarding what constitutes successful organizational performance.
Solves: Teams optimizing for different, and often conflicting, priorities due to a lack of shared understanding of organizational performance.
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Step 1: (15 min) Individually, have each participant write down their definition of "organizational performance."
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Step 2: (30 min) Share definitions and discuss common themes and areas of disagreement.
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Step 3: (15 min) Collaboratively create a single, unified definition of organizational performance that everyone agrees on.
- Encourage open and honest communication.
- Focus on finding common ground rather than dwelling on differences.
- Break the concept of organizational performance into key performance indicators (KPIs) and align on those.
- Use a voting system to prioritize different aspects of organizational performance.