How to
Create a Culture that Consistently Achieves Breakthrough Results
The Competitive
Advantage of the Future
Today, it’s a whole new business world out
there. One where speed, innovation and high
performance are not just desired but
required. But the only way to achieve those
is through team alignment.
Team Alignment
Team alignment is the grease the
lubricates and speeds the gears of business.
It’s the tendons and sinew that hold your
organization together when it has to perform
under pressure.
Beyond technology,
policy and procedure, the nature of the
unwritten agreements between the people in
an organization is what determines
performance and work environment.
Aligned teams are efficient, low drama,
consistent, reliable, supportive and
protective of each other, happy, flexible,
and able to win regularly without
extraordinary effort.
What is
Alignment?
It’s a meeting
of the minds between a group of people about
what is important to the group, who they are
as a group, and how they work together – ground rules that:
Clear the air and lets people pull out the
stops and
perform at the peak of their potential,
Enable
people to contribute without hesitation,
Make work satisfying,
and
Create a shared
sense of satisfaction.
Alignment is
fast becoming the competitive advantage of
future.
The Good News...
Ruben has teamed up with communication and
team alignment experts Don Akers and Joia
Jitahidi to create a powerful, one-of-a-kind
program that will transform your team and
help you create an unstoppable, peak
performance culture in your workplace.
Don and Joia are world-class in helping
teams and individuals maximize their
potential. Ruben will tell you he
would not have made it to the Olympics
without Don's help. (See why in the short
video below).
The Core
Concept
The core to being a TEAM is an agreement
to cooperate at many levels. This agreement
can occur randomly over time or can be
precisely created through a step by step
process that is used by leading companies
that is proven to deliver results.
Alignment clears the air and sets the ground
work for getting the best contribution from
each member where their strengths are
amplified and their weaknesses are
minimized. Team Alignment delivers business
results and creates an atmosphere where
people want to belong.
White Paper - "What Successful Teams Look Like"
This white paper briefly explains the
characteristics of a team that is firing on
all cylinders. This is the kind of team we
can help you become.
Feel free to print out this PDF and
distribute it to your key people.Click Here
Is Your Team Pulling
Together?
Its simple, you can’t have a high performing
organization unless your team is aligned.
You can only reach top levels of performance
when everyone is pulling together in a
synchronized way.
The key to creating sustainable high
performance is to develop a team of leaders
who are peak performers
– leaders who can produce extraordinary
results in the face of any business
challenge.
Bottom Line
Results
Today, it’s
all about performance. That is the
bottom line. If your business needs to
elevate to Olympic-level
performance and achieve extraordinary
results, then Team Alignment is just what
you’ve been looking for.
“Excellent
seminar... a sense of excitement
and feeling of purpose were
evident immediately after.
The real test lay in how long
the effects would continue
inside the high pressure
environment of Silicon Valley.
After three months, the morale
of the company is at an all-time
high. So are sales.”
Jack Marshall, CEO -
Altavista Technology.
What We Do
We
are a performance improvement company
helping organizations and individuals
achieve their goals. We specialize in
helping teams reach their potential. We
accomplish these results through the
application of fundamental principles over
time with strong coaching, accountability,
and follow up, achieving bottom-line
results.
Our client list ranges from
international companies to leading
organizations of all sizes. Our clients have
high-potential people and believe the key to
a brighter future is the growth and
development of their people.
We align teams on shared
beliefs and a common identity that they
collectively share, support, and live up to.
Not pie in the sky, not what they
“ought to be” but what they themselves are
willing to support and defend as a group.
Next we align the working ground rules -
the basic day to day execution of how they
work together. Next, the team defines for
themselves how they want to behave. What a
“real” team would look like given their
environment, activity, skills and business
needs.
If this sounds simplistic,
it’s because it is quite simple. It is
simple, just not EASY to CREATE and
MAINTAIN.
Why does It
Work? (When Everything else Didn't)
Team alignment works because we align at
the core level of beliefs and group identity
before doing any problem solving.
We
don't solve any problems.
The team
members iron out their own working
agreements so behavior and expectation
issues get resolved.
As they create
their own template for "TEAM" they uncover
and address areas where one team member is
walking over another either knowingly or not.
Instead of this being a contentious
battle it creates unity of purpose and a
common language that defines each team.
We are with
You Until Your People "Get It"
We
facilitate a robust working agreement that
includes what to do when you disagree with
your team, then stick around to coach them
so they learn to keep the agreement strong
over time - at first teams need to be
reminded of their agreement and how to
communicate better. At the end of the work,
the team is solid and owns the results
because they own every step of the process.
To Learn More
To find out how to
create an unstoppable team in your
organization and transform your
organization’s performance,
Please
call Don Akers at (281) 352-0165
or e-mail him at Don@DonAkers.com
Ruben Gonzalez
Is a four-time Olympian, business author and
award-winning keynote speaker.
He is a living example of
what is possible when you dream big, believe in yourself and
create a "Dream Team" to achieve the extraordinary.
Is the founder of The Executive Coach and the author of
"Intuitive Management." Joia is an expert at helping teams
communicate in the most effective way.
Intuitive Management doesn't give you
new tricks to pull out of your hat; it eliminates the need
for tricks altogether. Read this book and begin speaking,
responding, and listening with the clarity and resonance of
a true leader.
A Blueprint for Success
Featured in the FOX Business Channel, "Becoming Unstoppable"
is truly a blueprint for success. This gem of a book covers
the fundamental keys to reaching your personal and business
goals.
""Read this book,
apply its timeless principles, and you'll achieve more than ever before."
