Business Alignment and Attunement

Increasingly in my consulting work with clients I have become to realise that my approach is helping them to get alignment and attunement in their business.

Alignment is the golden thread of the link between customer problems, my client's solutions and then internally the strategy, plan, individual objectives and time spent on the priorities. When things are in line and connected the business usually succeeds.

Key alignment tests are:

- What is the strategy?
- How do your objectives link to it?
- How much time do you spend on delivering the objectives?

Answering these questions is the key to productively, efficiency and effectiveness. This is the head or rational part or what we do.

Attunement is the heart or how we do it.

The key tests are:

- Does the business have a stated culture, values and ethos?
- How far are they shared across the business and are they non-negotiable?
- Can people deduce the values from the way the business behaves?

So a recipe for success is getting alignment and attunement in your business. How does yours measure up?