Productivity:Alignment (plus Goals&Strategies/Trust,Constructive Interaction)

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Constellating a System with a Team – here’s an exercise with full credit to the Centre for Right Relationships (ORSC) which I did not spot in scanning the resources provided to date.This exercise can be done at the beginning as well as at various times in the team development process to get a snapshot of the system in that moment. By the way, request no cross-talking and explain the exercise is for everyone to become aware of how their team is expressed without judgement around the topic: to get a holistic view.
Steps:
1. Choose a topic the the team wants to explore or their system reveals during your observation of an interaction. e.g. you observe behaviour or the TDA reveals lack of alignment.
2. Write the topic or factor on a sheet of paper e.g. team alignment and place in the centre of the room.
3. Have people move to a place that represents their current level of engagement in the topic by asking “Where are you now in terms of being an aligned team?”
Those less engaged will move a position further from the centre than those very engaged at the centre.
4. Then ask for a sampling of answers of “What takes you to stand where you are positioned?” “What’s that like?
5. Next get them to go to a place of “How engaged do you want to be in terms of being one aligned team?” Have people move again to represent their response.
Be curious and ask “what did it take to have you move to this place?” “What does it feel like?
6. Continue to have the team move if helpful in terms of any other powerful questions (once or twice more at the maximum).
Once the closing enquiry has been debriefed ask, “What is the action/intention that you want to make to contribute to truly being one aligned team?
7. Record the actions to create shared accountability and indicate you will be curious in future conversation about how team alignment is showing up consistently in their system.

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