Culture Check Let's Get Moving
Why Us? Why the Us matters
Connection Navigation™ Find the way from Here to There. Explore the Practice → Where are we stuck?The 5 Lanes of Connection™ How do we move from here?The Ladder of Connection™ How do we get to There?The Landmarks™
Get Us Moving How we navigate the journey together. Explore the Work → Find the Rhythm™How we get a group moving together. From Here to There™Navigate a consequential journey together. Connection Signals™Make recurring moments possible to move through together. Connecting Culture™Collective Performance as a Service. An ongoing partnership for how your organization moves together. Lead the Step™How individual effort becomes collective movement.
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How do we get to There?

The Landmarks

Shared points of orientation for finding our way from Here to There together.

One journey.
Different maps.

We navigate from different vantage points — different histories, priorities, experiences, interpretations.

Same moments.
Different coordinates.

I read your movement through my map. You read mine through yours. We can share the same moment and still not be Here together.

Our different coordinates lead us to different next steps.

Where we are shapes how we move next. The same step from different locations does not take us to the same place.

We don’t need the same map.

We need shared landmarks.

Shared landmarks make our differences navigable.

01 / 04 Anchor

Here

Where are we now?

Anchor in what’s happening between us.

We don’t have to agree on how we got here to locate where we are.

02 / 04 Coordinate

There

Where do we hope to be?

Coordinate toward where we hope to be.

We don’t need the same map to share enough direction to move.

03 / 04 Move

Together

What step can we take from here?

Move together on the step we coordinated.

We don’t have to move the same way. Our movement has to stay navigable to each other.

04 / 04 Signal

Again

How do we keep moving together?

Anchor a shared signal for the next time we’re Here.

We anchor a shared signal so the next time we’re Here, we know how to move.

The demonstration

Everyone is in motion. Nobody is moving together.

  • Heroic: one carries too much.
  • Performative: one goes through the motions.
  • Fractured: one pulls movement apart.
Here
Us
There
Shared progress
HereWhere are we now? ThereWhere do we hope to be? TogetherWhat step can we take from here? Again ↺How do we keep moving together?
Plenty of motion. Almost none of it becomes shared progress.
The next step

One coordinated step changes where we are.
Then we do it again.

  1. AnchorHereEvery step gives us a new Here.
  2. CoordinateThereCoordinate toward where we hope to be.
  3. MoveTogetherMove together.
  4. SignalAgain ↺Keep moving together.

Repeated coordinated steps form a rhythm.
Repeated movement establishes a route.

Step → Rhythm → Route

Navigation isn’t knowing the route.

It’s being able to keep finding our way together.

Connection Navigation™

Finding our way from Here to There.

  1. Locatewhere we’re stuck.The 5 Lanes help us locate.
  2. Coordinatethe next step.The Ladder helps us coordinate.
  3. Navigatethe journey as it changes.The Landmarks help us navigate.

Navigating the journey together.
That’s The
Work of Us™.

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