Collaboration - Team Alignment

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=150 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="17b009b0egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>    </B><B> |  </B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>  </B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=180 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> “Alignment gets the heart of a critical element of organizational leadership, namely focus.” </div> <bR> <div>  Louis E Lataif, Dean, Boston University School of Management</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>T</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>HE</B></FONT><B> SOS G</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>ROUP</B></FONT></div> <div> Strategic Operational Solutions</div> <div> Phone: 713-249-9569</div> </td> <td valign="top" height=330 width="100%" style=" border-top: 6px solid #FFFFFF; border-left: 6px solid #FFFFFF;" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="winning_strategies.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Winning Strategies">home</A>   I <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT><A HREF="business_advisor.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Business Advisor">Business Advisor</A>   |   <A HREF="executive_coaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Executive Coaching">Executive Coaching</A>   |   <A HREF="strategic_planning.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Strategic Planning">Strategic Planning</A>   |   <A HREF="change_management_and_analys.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Change Management and Analysis">Change Management and Analysis</A>   |   <A HREF="self_analysis_tool.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Self Analysis Tool">Self Analysis Tool</A>   |   <A HREF="fail_safe_leadership.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FailSafe Leadership">Fail-Safe Leadership</A>   |   Collaboration - Team Alignment   |   <A HREF="meeting_facilitators.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting Facilitators">Meeting Facilitators</A>   |   <A HREF="process_improvement.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Process Improvement">Process Improvement</A>   |   <A HREF="business_project_developmen.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Project and Business Development">Project and Business Development</A>   |   <A HREF="mergers_acquisitions.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mergers Acquisitions">Mergers & Acquisitions</A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Collaboration - Team Alignment</I></div> <bR> <div> Are they <U>collaborating  and working efficiently</U> or wasting time and your money?</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="16f7b420.jpg" border=0 width="123" height="66" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#555555" FACE="Verdana" ><B>Collaboration and </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#555555" FACE="Arial" ><B>Team alignment is</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#555555" FACE="Arial" > about stimulating movement from where you are now to where you want to be. It evolves around the Principle of Alignment.  </FONT></div> <div> <B>The </B><B>Principle of Alignment "P,O.L." </B><B> </B>provides the template for the systematic process that your projects or organizations can utilize to overcome obstacles and challenges and thereby enhance team focus on the achievement of greater goals and successes.  </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="0c0f5670.png" border=0 width="501" height="359" ALT="Total Aligned System Diagram" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>"ALIGN" - Our proven</B><B> </B><B><U>Im</U></B><B><U>plementation Model</U></B><B>,</B> helps you focus on aligning your management team, organization, partners, stakeholders and operational systems with your strategic direction.  It facilitates behavior and attitude change and the commitment that will ensure a valid long term organizational improvement.  This Implementation Model is designed to provide you with a unique, customer-focused improvement process that is effective, efficient and adaptable to today's ever changing customer and business needs.</div> <div>  </div> <div> <B><U>Ask us how we can make your team alignment time more effective.</U></B><B> </B> You have nothing to loose, you might make a friend, new business contact or learn something new. <A HREF="contact_us.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us">Give us a call.</A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Facilitator</B></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="16e7e7e0.jpg" border=0 width="126" height="126" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Your facilitator works with you and your team to help establish the objects and then map the process. The Facilitator then guides the group toward a destination. Facilitation makes it easier to get to an agreed destination.</div> <div> How can the facilitator help?</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He is responsibility for the journey, rather than the destination. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He is responsible for managing a process of information exchange. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He serves as the director and tracker of the group's discussions, deliberations, and process. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He is a process guide, someone who makes a process easier. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He is the servant of the group, not its leader, and he works to ensure that the group accomplishes its goals. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He offers process suggestions and enforces ground rules agreed to by the group. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He keeps discussions on track, protects group members from attack, and ensures that all members participate.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He focuses on how well people work together</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He leads the group in drawing out answers, building vision and developing plans that motivate everybody to achieve agreed upon goals</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He helps a group free itself from internal obstacles or difficulties so that it may more efficiently and effectively pursue the achievement of its desired outcomes for a given meeting.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He is the impartial manager for meetings designed to enable participants to focus on substantive issues and goals.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700dc55555500.png" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">He is a master in the art of leading people through processes toward agreed objectives in a manner that encourages participation, ownership and creativity from all involved.</div> <bR> <div> Ask us to how<B> "GAP"</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#555555" FACE="Arial" >TM</FONT><B> Implementation</B> can help you.</div> <bR> <div> We have the tools, skills and processes to help you and your team meet your planned objects.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>As us how our Facilitation can improve meeting results</U></B><B>. </B> You have nothing to loose, you might make a friend, new business contact or learn something new. <A HREF="contact_us.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us">Give us a call.</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>