Best Practices for Aligning Your Team

 

Take the Alignment Quiz

  1. Do you offer intuition to communicate more with your personal feelings and opinions than with facts and logic?

Best Practice: People who explain their rationale tend to communicate the reasoning and facts behind an idea or decision.

  1. Do you deliver impromptu messages and tend not to invest energy in organizing what you have to say before you speak?

Best Practice: People who deliver structured messages prioritize organizing what they want to say, making it easier for others to understand.

     3.  Do you present information and communicate new ideas and information without room for discussion?

Best Practice: People who exchange perspectives tend to encourage dialogue around new ideas and information.

  1. Do you tend to challenge and respond with questions and skepticism to different points of view?

Best Practice: People who are receptive invite and appreciate different points of view.

  1. Are you reserved and tend...
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Best Practices for Creating a Vision for Your Team

 

Take the Vision Quiz

  1. Do you seek closure and strive to make decisions and finalize plans quickly and prefer not to revisit options once they are decided?

Best Practice: Leaders who remain open enjoy entertaining new ideas and possibilities and don’t hurry to finalize plans.

  1. Do you tend to prioritize details and pay close attention to the individual elements of a project to make sure they are workable?

Best Practice: People who prioritize the big picture tend to focus on the broad, overall view of an idea or project.

  1. Are you cautious and try to minimize risk and uncertainty?

Best Practice: People who are adventurous enjoy the excitement of taking risks and are comfortable with the unknown.

  1. Do you tend to hold back and hesitate to say anything that might be challenged or put your credibility on the line?

Best Practice: People who speak out tend to be willing to volunteer bold ideas, even if it will put their credibility on the line.

  1. Are you a leader who decides...
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Best Practices for Executing a Vision with Your Team

 

Take the Execution Quiz

  1. Are you low-key and laid back, uncomfortable encouraging others to increase their pace?

Best Practice: People who are driven tend to urge others to move quickly and can be annoyed when people lack a sense of urgency.

  1. Do you tend to be reactive and take action as the result of some event or problem? Are you unlikely to seek new opportunities without prompting?

Best Practice: People who are initiating often anticipate opportunities and problems and call attention to them.

     3.  Do you improvise and tend to figure things out as you go, without much planning or preparation?

Best Practice: People who plan tend to develop an organized course of action, setting clear expectations and deadlines.

  1. Do you follow your first impressions tending to rely on your initial feelings and views when moving forward?

Best Practice: People who analyze in-depth tend to perform a thorough examination of facts and details.

  1. Do you...
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