People think of scaling up as growing financially, but I felt it was about growing culturally. And, I thought if we could improve the culture of transparency and accountability within our organization — and better align our team members’ tasks to our organizational goals — then that would have financial benefits, too. It’s possible we could achieve these on our own, but how many setbacks would it take? Working with Align has been a much shorter path to success. In the quarter before we began using Align, the company would maybe address, define and accomplish one or two meaningful priorities. But this past quarter it’s been closer to 30. Using Align in this way — as a strategic management tool has been invaluable.”
Ben Gootee, CEO – Gootee Construction
Align’s features are your management toolkit.
Complicated strategic plans on unwieldy documents often get set aside and forgotten.
Align’s One Page Strategic Plan simplifies your strategic planning into one living document that is available every day to everyone. When your team knows the vision and where the company is headed, they are empowered to make a bigger impact on the success of the company, and they are happier in their jobs.
Carry your plan over to each new time period and build your long-term strategy and vision over time while also creating high-impact goals for your team that help you scale today.
Set Company Goals and cascade the work need to achieve them to your teams and individual employees so they know what they can do to drive the business forward.
Eliminate the silos that create delays from interdepartmental dependencies. Align’s Manage Priorities feature tracks progress on goals across the company and visualizes progress in a color-coded dashboard so that everyone can see what’s on track and where they can pitch in to ensure goals are met.
Align’s Top Priority Calendar keeps employees organized and moving forward beyond the day-to-day grind, by committing to just one thing they will do each day to move their goals forward.
Every team member gets automated notifications that drive action to make sure everyone stays on track.
Align’s Weekly Huddle Tool gives your managers and their direct reports the tools they need to for easy to implement continuous performance management.
Quickly roll-out structured weekly 1:1 reviews around transparent metrics to stay in the loop on progress and roadblocks. Free their time from micro-managing and chasing down updates and lessen the interruptions caused by long email chains.
Get personalized dashboards of important customizable metrics you choose fed by real-time updates to know where performance metrics stand at all times.
Give every manager easy visibility to track progress on individual goals for each of their direct reports.
Provide a place for your managers and their direct reports to easily and quickly create updates and action items on weekly progress.
Use the parking lot to record ideas for future projects or improvements.
Create a structure around and portal for consistent critical communication so that everyone stays on the same page.
Align’s Daily Huddle tool features create a daily communication framework to use throughout the company. In just a few minutes a day, each employee creates a short update for everyone else about:
What they are working on toward goals.
Information they have that impacts other team members.
Any roadblocks they have discovered that might keep the company from meeting a goal.
Announcements to celebrate smaller wins and successes so everyone knows the progress happening around the company.
Use the Align eNPS tool to automate measurement of employee engagement and happiness on a regular basis.
Set the Align eNPS tool to ask a regularly recurring question and survey your team.
The automated survey will go out to your team on a recurring schedule and track results.
Check your responses after each survey and follow your score over time to quickly react to changes into team connectivity.
Feedback is collected anonymously so that you get a true sense of the pulse of the team.
“In my two decades with Sportsafe, we never had a year in which we didn’t grow, and we never had a year in which we didn’t make a profit. But eventually, that growth got to be too much. We were just growing too quickly, and we couldn’t cope with it. We needed to change.
Our senior management team created a One Page Plan outlining the direction and big priorities of Sportsafe in a single, succinct document. Now every employee — whether they were a manager, an engineer, an accountant or a secretary — could see how their individual roles and tasks fit into the company’s long-term plan. It was incredible. We had 110 people pulling in the same direction. Each employee was able to see how their tasks for the day would advance the priorities in our One Page Plan. They said they felt like their work mattered — because it did!
It wasn’t until our last three years before I sold the company where we really started to take-off. And I don’t think that would have been possible without Align”
