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.

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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…?

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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?

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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?

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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?