Radical Alignment: How to Have Game-Changing Conversations That Will Transform Your Business and Your Life

Intentions: Why did you decide to come and speak at this conference? Why is this topic so important to you? Concerns: What concerns do you have about the future of work? What mistakes do you see people making that negatively affect the work you do? Boundaries: What do you make sure not to do in your work? How do you best take care of yourself in vo

Come to conflict as a collaborator. Humans hate losing even more than we love winning. Bring a sense of “winwin” to your team interactions by asking, How can we all feel like winners here?

we’ve learned that somatic awareness takes center stage as a necessity to generate both trust and alignment. Somatic awareness is the experience of being in and being aware of our bodies. It’s the perception and internal experience of living in our bodies and noticing how we feel physically as we emotionally experience situations and interact with

Here are some examples from their conversation for you to try with your parent or relative: Intentions: Mom, I want to talk about how our relationship is so tense so we can try to make it better. My intention is for us to feel closer and for it to be easier for us to spend time together. Concerns: I’m concerned that you’re going to feel bad or you’

done. Even a household or neighborhood has a culture. If you want better communication between two or more people, then creating a regular cadence of specialized touchpoints—meetings and tools—is one way to improve it. In our marriage, we schedule monthly “money and planning” meetings in which we use AIM to guide us. Working agreements are often us

The best communicators we know are also the best listeners. It’s not enough to ask questions; you also need to listen to the answers.

Esther Perel, a couple’s therapist, once told us that if we stayed together for a long time, we would have more than one relationship with each other, and we’d have to be prepared to allow our relationship to evolve.

We think innovation is adding perspective A to perspective B. But really, A and B bumping into each other and even annoying each other forces the creation of the brand-new perspective everyone can now share.

What self-care rules will help you to do your best? What rules or standards will help this team to be the best? What are you 100 percent unwilling to do when it comes to this experience? What are the items this project must address? What should never be changed about our product/organization?