Spring2 InnovationAlignment charter

For project teams and whole businesses

Most work goes wrong because people quietly disagree about it.

Alignment Charter asks everyone involved the same eight questions — separately, in their own words. It then puts the answers side by side, so the gaps between departments, executives and teams are visible before they turn into rework, missed deadlines and frustration.

What you get out of it

Better collaboration

People stop guessing what the others expect of them, because it's written down and shared.

Understanding across departments

Each team sees how its work looks from the next desk over, including the parts that worry them.

Fewer expensive surprises

Disagreements about goals, ownership and decisions surface in week one, not week twelve.

How it works

  1. 1

    Write the brief

    Set up a project with its teams, or a business with its vision, mission, priorities, executives and the managers under them.

  2. 2

    Everyone answers privately

    Each person gets their own link and answers the same eight questions in a few minutes.

  3. 3

    Compare and talk

    The grid and the business dashboard show the answers side by side, and you export or print them for the conversation.

The eight questions

  • Goals
  • Challenges
  • Fears
  • Values
  • Expectations
  • Measures of success
  • Accountability
  • Decisions

And it keeps going

Every cycle runs through three short steps — Pulse, Prep and Ratify — so the charter gets amended as the work changes instead of going stale in a folder.

Set up your charter