The Alignment Diagnosis
Two to three weeks. You know something is off. Here you find out what. An audit, two facilitated retrospectives, a report with recommendations, and every team leaves with its own measures.
You have been discussing symptoms for months.
Meetings run longer, decisions get made twice, two departments have gone quiet on each other. Everyone in the building has a theory, and none of them can be tested. As long as that holds, every measure is a guess.
Four steps from friction to clarity
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Discovery call
Free, 20 to 30 minutes. We clarify whether the programme fits your situation at all. If it does not, I say so here and not in the proposal.
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Alignment audit
A 90-minute deep dive with leadership plus three to four preliminary conversations with key roles. The result is hypotheses, explicitly not a diagnosis.
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Two diagnostic retrospectives
Department-specific, 90 to 120 minutes each. Every one ends with one to three measures recording who does what by when.
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Report and feedback to the teams
A report to leadership about patterns and structures, not about individuals. Plus a short read-back to the teams, so nobody feels they were talked about behind their back.
What you get out of it
No more guessing. After the diagnosis you know in writing where information gets lost and which levers have to come next.
What actually creates friction, at which interfaces information gets lost, and what that means for your next decisions.
Every participating team leaves its retrospective with one to three measures of its own. Self-authored, not imposed from outside.
Measured before the first and after the second retrospective. So you hold a number, not just an impression.
Whether it worked, I measure.
Before the first retrospective and again after the second, your team answers seven questions on psychological safety. Anonymous, three minutes, using a questionnaire validated for German-speaking countries.
What I am not saying with that: "significantly improved". With eight to fifteen people there is no robust statistic for that. And if nothing moved, I say so too.
PDF, 13 pages. Every study with its source, every limitation named. No signup.
Who the diagnosis is not for.
Then you do not need a diagnosis, you need someone to resolve the friction. That is the Sprint.
A diagnosis without any willingness to change afterwards only creates expectations that get disappointed. That does more harm than good.
A conversation between two people moves more than a programme. That is what 1:1 sparring is for.
The diagnosis is the first half of the Sprint.
The diagnosis shows what the cause is and gets each team moving on its own. The Sprint additionally resolves the friction between teams and leaves behind a process that runs without me. Extending costs no more in total.
Inquiry for Alignment Diagnosis
Let's discuss in 20 to 30 minutes whether the Alignment Diagnosis is the right starting point for your current situation.
Pick a slot for the discovery call
Free, 20 to 30 minutes, no sales pitch. You see my open slots and pick one. No waiting for a reply.
See available slotsIf I am the wrong person for this, I say so in the call.