Imagine how vibrant your business will be when every person managing work is also an effective leader. Where they are continuously strengthening alignment and orchestrating for momentum toward shared objectives.
A vibrant business: stays ahead of the competition, maintains its highest value, and is a great place to work.
With Lori’s support we defined and gained commitment to four key objectives. These addressed significant challenges that we hadn’t effectively improved over the prior six years. She helped us develop a clearer vision and strategy, strengthen alignment, and gather meaningful feedback on progress and the effect of the changes on others throughout our 700-person office and council board. Within just nine months those four key objectives were achieved.
When some were stepping away from performance reviews, we wanted to start them. We knew that adding this discipline would help us more effectively work as one team to achieve our mission. We would not have stayed consistent without having a system in place.
Lori and her project team worked with hundreds of our managers and subject matter experts to help move us through regulatory headwinds. To our delight, team engagement and performance also improved. We now share information and communicate more effectively while also staying compliant, from onboarding through each employee’s journey with us.
Lori challenged me to think about the contribution I can bring to my organization rather than what I can receive from my organization. This helped me be more productive and impactful as a senior leader.
With Lori’s support we defined and gained commitment to four key objectives. These addressed significant challenges that we hadn’t effectively improved over the prior six years. She helped us develop a clearer vision and strategy, strengthen alignment, and gather meaningful feedback on progress and the effect of the changes on others throughout our 700-person office and council board. Within just nine months those four key objectives were achieved.
~J.J., former Council Chair
Yet, many organizations haven’t mastered or properly honor the time, energy and soft skills needed for great leadership.
Is this your reality?
What you must pay attention to, to stay relevant and grow, has changed. In a rapidly evolving landscape, traditional management practices and systems are insufficient. Systems combine all that is needed to weave best practices into daily routine. You need a leadership operating system™.
That’s where we come in. We are led by The Pivot Catalyst, Lori Michele Leavitt, and our center of thought leaders, coaches and consultants. We start with a consulting engagement, powered by A.M. software, to discover and design a unique leadership operating system that will keep your organization vibrant for many years to come.
We catalyze momentum for leaders and teams.
Our mission is for your business to be vibrant, and thrive.
Our A.M. methods and leadership operating system help your managers lead better, naturally, without overwhelm or burnout.
This free, no-obligation, and confidential call could change the trajectory of your business.
Do you want to become a vibrant business? Do you want to lead better in the new era of stakeholder needs? Do you want to achieve Aligned Momentum and performance breakthroughs?
A vibrant business continues to make a positive impact on the world.
A vibrant business must always strengthen alignment and keep momentum.
Alignment + Momentum.
If so, Book a Strategy Call today. On this call, we will:
• Learn more about you and your business
• Assess your current situation and challenges
• Identify your goals and opportunities for greater business vibrancy
• If a fit, highlight where the A.M. Bridge consulting engagement can serve you
This call is free, no-obligation, and confidential. It will up to 30 minutes of your time, and could change the course of your business forever.
It’s a state in which:
We work with you as trusted advisors and partners to understand your strategic vision and objectives, and where you are today. Through consulting, coaching, assessment, and confidential reporting, we create a leadership operating system that suits your needs and complements the management methods and tools you already use. We help you monitor and measure your progress and results, and train those who will keep the wins going and growing long after our engagement is complete. We will stay with you to help celebrate your successes and learn from your failures.
We to help you orchestrate change and gain performance momentum, powered by the Aligned Momentum (A.M.) software, including everything you need to share strategy in an effective way, get input and feedback, assess the workplace culture, empower individuals and encourage collaboration. The Aligned Momentum leadership operating system™ has been designed with brilliant execution of strategy in mind. And so, it must support each person’s ideas, communications, choices, and actions. A.M. simply and effectively offers each individual the communication platform they need to stay aligned, and perform at their best. Most don’t even have to login. What needs to be communicated flows between people to ensure that expectations are realized. And what is private stays confidential.
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction.”
~Jim Rohn
The Aligned Momentum leadership operating system™ has been designed with brilliant execution of strategy in mind.
And so, it must support each person’s ideas, communications, choices, and actions. A.M. simply and effectively offers each individual the communication platform they need to stay aligned, and perform at their best. Most don’t even have to login. What needs to be communicated flows between people to ensure that expectations are realized. And what is private stays confidential.
Then: Continue to use the system on your own, and keep your business vibrant for years to come.
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TRANSFORM PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT INTO PERFORMANCE MOMENTUM WITH THE A.M. PROGRAM
When combining an A.M. Engagement with A.M. Program, we are your consultants, coaches and administrators, “powered by” the A.M. software, as we help you design an effective system starting with people and process—how they are working together.
As the Program engagement comes to an end, your organization will have the system and content that fits you, and is a natural part of how people work together.
TRANSCRIPT :
The Aligned Momentum Leadership Operating System is going to fit into their workday, into their lives—to make their life easier, because that’s what software is for. It is not for you to fit in our box and be a “should do.” It is a “want to do.”
With the A.M. Program we will come in and also be your administrators for a while as we train others, and as we continue the consulting engagement—to truly get that rhythm in your organization—and get these new Aligned Momentum ways woven through your organization.
So that, as I describe in the book, The Pivot: Orchestrating Extraordinary Business Momentum, you are moving toward that state where alignment and momentum are both in place.
Where Clarity, Mastery Mindsets, Nimble Decision-making, Strategic Thinking, Talent Adaptability, and Managers as coaches are all in place.
We’re here to help you and that is what the AM (consulting) Program is for.
DOING PERFORMANCE REVIEWS RIGHT WITH A.M. REVIEWS TRANSCRIPT
Performance reviews do have a place in your organizational plan. The reviews are intended to look back at performance.
They provide more feedback and learning in a different way than the day-to-day “Hmm, that didn’t go so well, let’s work on that.” Or “Wow, that went great!” That day-to-day continuous feedback. Still do that.
But performance reviews help someone in their career to grow. Performance reviews help you understand what is actually being done in the role, that perhaps the role description isn’t describing right now, and will help position you and all of your team to understand what talent is going to be needed in the future, and who among your existing workforce is capable of doing that.
So Aligned Momentum Performance Reviews will help you create a performance review process that is positive, especially when used with the rest of the modules within Aligned Momentum.
A.M. ASSESSMENTS HELP MANAGERS LEAD TRANSCRIPT
Today, we expect managers (or anyone who leads a team) to lead better; to build more collaborative teams; to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion; to hear all voices; to reduce risk; to lead… better!
And yet, that is very difficult to do: to be consistent, and to truly ask all the right questions and hear all the voices, always live. Aligned Momentum (A.M.) Assessments help.
They’ll help those that are responsible for the culture to get their arms around, “What is it like to work at this workplace?”
It helps all the managers who are working individually, one-on-one with people, to understand, “Are the people in our team getting along? Are we truly building a collaborative team? Are we ensuring the DEI that we expect? Are we hearing all voices? Do we have risk?”
And cross teams. “Are people working together for the betterment of the organization and all?” Aligned Momentum Assessments will help.
A.M. ASSESSMENTS PROMOTE INCLUSION AND BRING CLARITY TRANSCRIPT
Online assessments gather the de-identified data that will help you take the best next steps as a leader to be a better leader, and create a more vibrant workplace.
Achieving alignment and momentum requires engagement from everyone. And people are not going to be engaged unless they are part of it.
It’s no longer “Top down, this is what we’re doing, now buy in.” No.
It is about creating this this voice! You’re hearing the voices, you’re a voice—everyone else has a voice. And do that, simply, through assessments.
These are: workplace assessments—people are giving you an idea of what it’s like to work with each other peer-to-peer, and what it’s like just overall to be in that workplace.
And there are also 360 assessments to use for people who are your next leaders. Are they the right ones to step into the role? And what needs to change? How can you give them the resources? What can they look at in themselves to be the leader that is needed for the future?
Look at the Aligned Momentum (A.M.) Assessments as a means to create this rhythm of continuous input and feedback within your organization. Not only for more brilliant execution of strategy, but also for a better future.
WHY A.M. CONVERSATIONS IS VITAL FOR PLANNING AND EXECUTING PRIORITIES TRANSCRIPT
People want to know that what they’re doing matters. They also—individuals—we want every individual to be setting their own priorities aligned with what matters most for the organization.
Now, how are they going to know that they’re on track? The best way is conversations.
And with Aligned Momentum Conversations, we put that together in a way that makes sense for both (individuals and managers). The managers have that information in a way that they can respond the most effectively for both.
Is it, “Yes, you’re right on track.” “No, you’re not on track. Hey, let’s meet.” Or, “I’m not sure about this. This may have changed. Let’s get together and talk about it.”
That’s all that’s needed. But it’s so rarely done, and so rarely done effectively.
So give all of your managers throughout the organization, team leaders, and their teams, this tool: Aligned Momentum, along with Priorities Conversations, that will help them be better leaders, and help everyone in the organization do what matters most.
REPORTS FOR EVERY A.M. MODULE TRANSCRIPT
We at Aligned Momentum know how important good data is for you to make decisions from all that you’re doing.
We would not put a system in place that would not provide you with the decision support reports that you need.
With every module that I’m describing, there is at least one report that you can view that will help you take best next steps, help you make those decisions, for now, next, and future.
WHY A.M. STRATEGY?
You want your strategy to be brilliantly executed.
You want all of those taking the lead within your organization to truly commit to strategic objectives, to be the champion, and to help guide their teams toward brilliant execution of strategy.
So, how do you do that?
WHAT IS A.M. STRATEGY?
So you have a strategic plan. You—usually a small group of senior leaders—have gotten together and finalized: looked out into the future, looked at the vision, come up with strategic moves, strategic objectives, and then brought that back into an execution plan for the coming quarter. Or perhaps a year, and it will be revisited each quarter.
And during that process, I hope that you have well defined the strategic objectives, and taken some time to discuss how you think they would be measured. And that’s critical.
It’s still just, at this point, what you think needs to be done for brilliant execution of that strategy. Because you don’t know—those closer to the work know. And so this is where Aligned Momentum (A.M.) Strategy comes into play, and why it’s so critical.
HOW DO I USE A.M. STRATEGY?
So, with Aligned Momentum Strategy, it will enable you in a simple but highly effective way to broadcast strategy—those strategic objectives—out to all the division / department heads to start.
And they can work with their teams, as makes sense, and they’ll look at the strategic objectives, even if they’re part of the leadership team, will look at them again and say:
“What actually, of those objectives, can my team affect?” Not control, but affect.
“And of those strategic objectives then, if this is what we can affect, how would we do that? And based on how we would do that, how would we define progress? What would progress look like? What would be those measures?”
And so then, the strategic map, this draft strategy map, is updated with the input from others, and brought back into a full strategy map.
The strategic objectives haven’t changed. It’s possible that if no one in the organization is saying they can affect a strategic objective, it needs to be revisited.
Yet, you will have a much more likely plan that can be brilliantly executed.