Align your team around what it takes to deliver your transformation.
Transformation stalls when the people responsible for delivering it are working toward different priorities, revisiting decisions, or struggling to change how they work together.
Our Align for Action Program™ (A4A) helps the team responsible for your transformation get clear on what delivery requires, resolve what is getting in the way, and build the commitment and accountability to move forward.
Your transformation depends on how people work together
An ERP implementation or consolidation, a new go-to-market approach, or a growth strategy into new markets requires people across the organization to change how they work together. But different priorities, competing demands, and established ways of working can make progress difficult. Teams may agree on the goal while remaining unclear on what delivering it requires from them and from each other.
If your transformation is mission-critical and depends on people across the organization delivering together, Align for Action is the program built for your team.
Your transformation is underway.
Why does progress keep getting stuck?
At Karrikins Group we know most teams can’t deliver in a vacuum. They depend on people and resources from across the organization to succeed, which means both leaders and team members need to align on what it takes to deliver exceptional results, and to create clarity for others to align as well.
Do any of these sound familiar?
- Everyone agreed to the plan, but their day-to-day priorities haven’t changed.
- We keep reopening decisions we thought were settled.
- Each function is making progress, but the initiative isn’t.
- The same people keep having to chase commitments and resolve handoffs.
- We’re adding transformation work without deciding what comes off the list.
- We need people to work differently, and they keep reverting to what they know.
Align for Action helps your team work through what is getting in the way, build shared commitments, and create momentum toward the transformation you need to deliver.
A structured program built around your transformation
Assess where alignment is breaking down. Establish a starting point around the initiative and the team responsible for it.
Build the commitments required to deliver. Use guided GEAR-UP sessions to address real challenges and establish shared ways of working.
Reinforce accountability in the work. Return to those commitments, address emerging friction, and adjust as the transformation progresses.
The A4A experience
A4A is one part practical execution, one part organizational therapy, and one part leadership development.
We bring the entire team into quality conversations about the transformation you are responsible for delivering: the competing priorities, difficult trade-offs, and changes in working practices that need to be addressed.
The conversations can be challenging, particularly when they expose familiar habits that are holding the team back. They help people get honest about what needs to change and take responsibility for how they contribute to the shared outcome.
We know change is hard. We stay with you as the team puts its commitments into practice, works through challenges, and builds momentum.
The GEAR-UP Model™
Developed by Karrikins Group, our proprietary GEAR-UP Model™ guides your team through six quality conversations about what it will take to deliver your transformation.
Together, we surface what is getting in the way, challenge assumptions, and build alignment around how people need to work differently to achieve the shared outcome.
The model gives those conversations a structure, with your team’s transformation providing the focus.
Align for Action combines a structured program experience with work focused on your team’s specific transformation objective.
The program is designed to span six months: an initial three-month period of intensive alignment work, followed by three months of accountability check-ins. Timing can be configured around your team’s goal and circumstances. Throughout the engagement, your team works on the real decisions, priorities, and challenges affecting delivery, then puts its commitments into practice between sessions.
Exceptional results come from aligned teams
Karrikins Group’s alignment work has supported hundreds of senior leaders and teams in closing the gap between ideas and execution. Align for Action applies that work to a defined strategic objective, helping the people responsible for delivery build shared ways of working, strengthen accountability, and make progress together.
Is this right for our team?
A4A is designed for teams responsible for a defined strategic objective or transformation that requires people across functions to deliver together.
If you know what you need to achieve but are struggling to create focus, commitment, or coordinated action, let’s discuss whether the program fits your situation.
What level in the org do I need to be?
The program is designed for mid- to senior-level leaders responsible for delivering a strategic priority. Participation should include the people whose decisions, commitments, and ways of working affect the shared outcome.
How long is the program and can we do it in less time?
The program is designed for three months of intensive work followed by three months of accountability check-ins. And, since we are working toward aligning to your unique goal, we can configure the timing to ensure your success. As social scientists, business people, and behavioral experts, we know that change takes time and small steps consistently will get you further than big jumps that fall short. Our experience shows clearly that regular small interventions over time create more acceleration and better results.
Won’t this just distract people from what we need to do?
No, it won’t distract people. This work will actually focus people on the work that most needs to be done by creating quality conversations that make misalignment visible and course correct quickly and effectively to keep momentum going in the right direction. We incorporate real-world situations your team is facing as a part of our workshop discussions to tackle challenges head on.
My cross-functional team is struggling to move the needle on our strategic priority – will this program work for us?
Yes! This program is designed with you in mind – we love working with teams that represent different parts of the organization to create alignment to a collective goal.
Can I purchase the Alignment Assessment from the Align for Action program for my individual use?
Yes, the Alignment Assessment is available separately. Let’s chat about your assessment needs.
What if we need help with our strategy?
We do strategy work too, however this program is best suited for teams who need help aligning to a defined strategy or mission. Let’s chat about your strategy needs!
What our clients say about the program
“The process has taken us to a whole new level as a team. As a result of this program, our team has a unified message and we are empowering, coaching, and leading the same way.”
“I love this work. What is next, who is next? I want to engrain this into the fabric of our firm. We are laying a solid foundation that we will build upon for the next five years and beyond.”
“The program has been impactful for me as a 24-year veteran of the firm. I am catching myself pausing and considering other perspectives and I am now taking ownership to change outcomes and will do things differently going forward.”
What transformation does your team need to deliver?
Tell us what you’re working toward and where progress is getting stuck. We’ll discuss the initiative, the people involved, and whether Align for Action is the right fit.
Connect with Kate
Kate Zappitelli is Chair of the Alignment Institute® and leads the Align for Action Program. Connect with her to learn more about how to align and deliver as a team on your most ambitious goals.
