ALIGNMENT
Team Building Glossary
Team Building — Alignment
Information on Alignment
"Alignment" is one of the nine dimensions of the high-performance
team wheel.
Alignment is the intellectual and behavioural agreement on
goals, strategies, and pro-cesses for achieving them. Team members work
together effectively. They work through differences and jointly prioritise tasks.
Competing goals and agenda, and people doing their own thing
are characteristic of non-alignment. Other examples of non-alignment
include compliance (working without belief in what you’re doing or
why), blatant or subconscious efforts counter to the purported /
agreed approach or goal, and no real shared purpose or
strategy.
In order to achieve extraordinary results, it is critical that
all team members work together toward common goals. Not only
goals, themselves, but the way team members work together to
achieve them needs to be aligned as well. Consistent practices
are efficient, economical, and practical. Alignment concerns attitudes, beliefs,
purpose, and expectations, as well as priorities and practices. High-Performance
Teams begin fundamentally aligned (or they must stop, at some
point, and regroup). The team chartering process is used to
build alignment.
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