The UNITE Team Alignment Model

The UNITE Team Alignment model visually demonstrates different ways of creating alignment in a team and their implications.
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  • The UNITE Team Alignment Model
  • The UNITE principles of working together
  • The UNITE Team Health Check
  • The implication of the paradigm and mindset shift on team structure and language
  • The UNITE overview of evolutionary developments across people, culture, organizations & economy
  • The UNITE Culture Canvas empty/with definitions ready for your workshop. The canvas comes both in a core and a conextualized version

Understand how to model high performance teams

Learn how to create alignment while still allowing autonomy

Determine the maturity of your team!

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I really enjoyed the whole book, but mostly the culture chapter, mainly because I always failed to acknowledge its major role in favouring or inhibiting business growth. Loved the graphics that helped connect all the dots in a visually appealing (and way easier) way.

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Why we use it

In an innovation team, we want everyone to be moving the project forward. Still, at the same time, the freedom and autonomy necessary for innovation require that individuals are not micromanaged (!) .
So how can we balance these two principles? This model shows us how.

How It Works

When we think about how to make progress towards a goal, there are two factors to consider, alignment and autonomy. When we have low autonomy and low alignment, it results in micromanaging. Individuals neither have the freedom to work independently nor do they understand the purpose behind the work they do. Obviously, this is not going to work to produce true innovation.However, you can’t just boost one of the two factors. Autonomy without alignment leads to chaos.
Everyone is doing their own thing, and some of those things may be productive, but they do not lead to a collective move forward. Similarly, if we increase alignment but not autonomy, we end up with a hierarchical command structure. Everyone understands what is being done and why, but there is not enough individual autonomy to think of new and different ways of achieving the same goal. When you increase autonomy and alignment, however, a self-organizing group forms that understands the overall goal and is enabled to work independently and creatively to achieve that very goal.

What is the goal of the model?

Balancing freedom and progress. When we structure a team around a clear purpose and values, we can ensure that everyone is pulling in the same direction without yoking them to a hierarchical model that stifles their creativity.

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The Culture Canvas

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