Pyramid Cornerstones
The table below briefly indicates what the different cornerstones can mean at the individual, team and organizational level. Reading through the table can be an interesting reflection exercise; answer the questions and/or discuss them with a trusted sparring-partner.
Individual level
- Who are you?
- What are your core beliefs, values and emotions?
- How do they influence your behaviour as a leader?
Team level
- How do you view teamwork?
- What are your beliefs about what makes a good team?
- Are you acting accordingly?
- What is the role/position you adopt most often within a team setting?
- Is this what you want or not?
- Ask for feedback about these topics
Departmental or Organizational level
- What is your perspective on organizations?
- When do they work and when don’t they?
- What are their core beliefs?
- Do you see them as machines, organisms or something else?
- What do you believe is needed for a company to function successfully?
- What does ‘a company that works’ mean to you?
- Is it about making profit, being productive, giving meaning to people, making people happy…?
Individual level
- What are the key results you as a person want to realize in the short and longer term?
Team level
- What are the key results your team must realize in the short and longer term?
Departmental or Organizational level
- What are the key results your organization must realize in the short and longer term?
Individual level
- How do you structure yourself?
- Do you plan?
- Do you have discipline?
- Do you establish priorities?
- Most importantly, is structure all-important to you?
Team level
- How do you structure the work to be done in your team?
- How do you divide and allocate tasks and roles?
- Are meetings and conversations structured or not?
- How are tasks and internal communication structured?
- Is it important to introduce structure or not?
- What needs to be structured and what doesn’t?
- What do you want to change?
Departmental or Organizational level
- How is the company structured?
- Layers?
- Division of tasks and roles?
- What kinds of procedures are used?
- Does it have too much or too little structure or is it just right?
- How are communication, information and dialogue structured?
- Is it important to introduce structure or not?
- What needs to be structured and what doesn’t?
- What do you want to change?
Individual level
- How is your relationship with yourself?
- Do you respect and trust yourself?
- Do you praise yourself or are you highly self-critical?
Team level
- How are the relationships within the team?
- Are people connecting to each other to tackle challenges?
- Is the atmosphere constructive and productive?
- Do they form one team or do you have subgroups?
- What do you do to lead and influence all this?
Departmental or Organizational level
- How are the relationships within your company?
- Are departments and teams working together or is there an ‘island’ culture?
- Are people willing to help each other?
- Is there a lot of collaboration or competition?
- What do you do to lead and influence all this?