Meaningful Alignment
Manage emotions. Resolve conflict. Improve relationships.
Let’s face it. Many of us are not the best communicators, particularly when under pressure and faced with emotionally charged conversations.
Lack of emotional self-management during high-stakes conversations can lead to damaged relationships, broken trust, and career setbacks, while also creating broader problems in the workplace, including:
- Avoidant and reactive management culture
- Team members not receiving crucial, timely feedback
- Teams and individuals not being held accountable
- Fewer innovative, creative, and collaborative behaviors
- Teams not equipped to resolve issues and solve problems effectively and efficiently
The secret to successful relationships, both professionally and personally, is gaining alignment with others, with emotional composure and resilience. Our capacity to manage emotions, resolve conflict, and create meaningful alignment with others is not part of our inner essential nature – it must be learned.
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The Program
Meaningful Alignment is a program committed to helping individuals engage with one another, actively and skillfully. We offer a unique set of tools and assessments that help express emotion (and give feedback) in a way that will inspire colleagues and team members through empathy, respect, and compassion.
Program highlights:
- Learn and practice the six steps and emotional management techniques of Meaningful Alignment.
- Complete an IDP Assessment and discover your “Inside Game” – how beliefs, perceptions, and social behaviors are formed from unique emotional response patterns and coping mechanisms.
- Learn which dialogue styles to use with others, particularly when the stakes are high and disagreements are tinged with emotion.
- Discover vital skills and techniques to help manage both your own emotions and those of others.
- Explore ways to build greater emotional resilience.
- Learn how to offer timely, candid, and courageous feedback.
- Learn how to model equanimity and be a source of reassurance and confidence – particularly during tumultuous times.
Our IDP Assessment provides the strongest foundation for growth and success.
AAThe Problem: Poor communication has real impacts.
The impact of poor communication is immense. According to one study, conflicts between employees cause over 350 billion dollars of lost productivity each year. And over time, sustained and unresolved conflicts cause many stress-related illnesses, which not only impact performance at work, but negatively impact long-term mental and physical well-being as well.
So it’s imperative to strive for alignment with composure and resilience – in conversations and interactions across all spheres of life: work, home, and community.
The Solution: One-size does not fit all.
While self-improvement books and courses teach effective communication techniques, a technique-based approach is simply not enough. Keeping in mind that no two people are alike, the path to improving our ability will be different for each person. Achieving a successful outcome for all parties involved begins with understanding one’s self and the “inside game” of each individual’s mind.
The Tool: SG’s Interpersonal Dialogue Profile™ (IDP) Assessment
This requisite level of deeper, individualized, self-knowledge is achieved through Steinbrecher’s Interpersonal Dialogue Profile™ (IDP) Assessment.
Through a series of introspective prompts, the IDP Assessment reveals how one handles emotionally charged conversations, their individual dialogue style, and the resulting impacts on affecting positive communication outcomes.
The IDP Assessment provides the strongest foundation for individual growth and success in developing emotional intelligence, communication acumen, and the ability to resolve conflicts with composure and mutual respect – achieving true Meaningful Alignment.