TPOVs @F-L-O-W
Leadership Engagement
Alignment is a simple,
yet a
complex set of factors that are in equilibrium now, and what
emerges is a product of these iterations. 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, still marketed by Gallup as, “the
most powerful predictors of employee engagement.” (solutions.gallup.com 2018)
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.
Over time, Mike Jay identified questions as part of his Leadership Engagement [LE] program that begin to get at the more complex features of alignment:
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, ALIGNMENT @F-L-O-W 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.
Helpful Hint: While this is just a stake in the ground, and alignment with who you are, and what you do is key to giving you the information you need to design the gap tensions that keep your system breathing, more complex systems need to understand dynamic engagement to produce alignment.
Action Step: Review the following linked document for more information on Dynamic Alignment.
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Mike R. Jay is a developmentalist utilizing consulting, coaching, mentoring and advising as methods to offer developmental scaffolding for aspiring leaders who are interested in being, doing, having, becoming, and contributing… to helping people have lives.
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