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Recognizing Misalignment

How do you identify a lack of alignment in an individual, team, or a corporate culture? Do you know when team members are either not clear about what they’re doing and why they’re doing it, or when they simply don’t agree?

True alignment requires clarity and approval across six critical factors: Purpose, Values, Vision, Goals, Priorities, and Roles. If even a few team members are unclear or unconvinced, alignment begins to fracture.

Which of these do you see in your organization?

Meetings where people agree in the room, then fail to follow through.

Confusion about priorities or roles, leading to rework and missed opportunities.

Effort without momentum — hard work, but not high performance.

Failure to execute strategic objectives, often coupled with an assumed lack of engagement or commitment.

Misunderstandings about the organizational vision and their role in its achievement.

ROI Alignment

Align for Agility

Riker Opportunity Institute builds leadership congruence — the alignment between what leaders say, reward, tolerate, and model in order to build trust. Assessing alignment is a key aspect of our Culture Design & Transformational programs.

We help you identify gaps between:

  • Stated values and daily behaviors

  • Leadership messaging and employee interpretation

  • Clarity and Approval of vision, values, purpose, roles, goals, and priorities

With ROI, the overarching goal is not simply culture assessment — it is culture alignment! Then, all parts work together to co-create an energized and inspirational workplace that gets stuff done!

Ultimately you achieve alignment without the rigidity that makes organizations slow to adapt to changing needs. Cultivating existing and potential leaders, then giving them the necessary skills, you build trust and accountability simultaneously.

Co-creating Alignment

Unaligned, we see disengagement, resource drain and high turnover. However, organizations can come back into alignment. Departments, teams, and individuals can redirect toward a shared vision. Alignment, grounded in trust and emotional intelligence, looks like this:

  • Leaders who model the behaviors they expect and communicate accountability without fear-based management.

  • Team members who, feeling safe and respected, in turn respect the company, see their work as meaningful, and prioritize purpose, mission, and vision.

  • Emergence of a culture of cooperation and collaboration that permeates all parts of the organization.

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
— Simon Sinek

The Riker Approach

A Shared Vision with Alignment

At Riker Opportunity Institute, we know that culture is built on behavior, and alignment throughout the organization starts with clarity and approval of Vision, Mission, Values, Roles, Goals and Priorities at all leadership levels, starting at the top.  We provide long-term solutions, giving leaders tools to shape environments where both people and purpose thrive.

Cultural alignment is achievable when using these assessments and programs:

  • Conscious Leadership Alliance (CLA) Team Alignment Survey™ Measures Trust and Cooperation to Build High-Performance Teams; when teams are aligned – regarding purpose, values, vision, goals, priorities and roles – everyone understands what performance is expected, why they’re taking certain actions, and how their contributions fit into the bigger picture. Trust Within Assessments’ proprietary Team Alignment Survey™ measures the trust and cohesiveness within a team. While alignment is essential for building high-performing teams, it cannot exist without trust. When trust is low, team members struggle to have the robust conversations needed to achieve clarity and shared purpose

  • Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® is a classroom training and personalized learning experience that connects unique leadership styles to real-world demands. This application brings together best practices from 300 experts in over 150 organizations, the important work of prominent scholars, and over four years of additional research and development to provide participants with an actionable path toward more effective leadership. With one unified model of leadership—Vision, Alignment, and Execution—it helps leaders understand their own leadership styles and how their tendencies influence their effectiveness in specific leadership situations.

  • Customized Executive Retreats address your specific and unique cultural and leadership challenges. If you are about to embark on developing a new strategic plan, Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® can be a great framework for the retreat to make sure you get to a quality outcome that will move your organization forward..  If you are a year or two into your Strategic Plan and things are not going as smoothly as you would like, The Team Alignment Survey™ can be a great way to discover where the roadblocks are so you can get things moving freely again.  If you are a leadership team that just needs to work more effectively together, The Five Behaviors™ Team Development Assessment and content achieves transformational results, whose progress can be measured year after year..

  • PXT Select Assessment™ makes sure you have the right people in the right seat. It helps you with succession planning, knowing who are well suited for leadership as well as clarifies what aspects of leadership need to be developed to be successful in that role.  It helps you with onboarding to know the best approach for each individual and speeds up the acclamation process within the culture and teams.

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