Attitude
What significance does our attitude have in terms of the common pursuit of goals? Why is it so important to understand attitude?
Significance and access
Our attitude determines and controls our willingness to act. It generates initiative, support or rejection, depending on the course and result we hope for. Access to a person's attitude cannot be demanded or even ordered. Insight into attitude can only be granted . People only ever grant this permission on the basis of trust and reliability. Our work on the "Organization of Common Cause" is an attempt to build on this foundation, to strengthen it and to use it for the best possible common success.
Understanding attitudes enables us to understand potentials and to use them
Indicators
Cooperation always has two basic requirements: the will and the ability to work together. Their effects on individuals generate their attitudes. A person is inclined towards something, undecided about it or opposed to it. The reasons for adopting an attitude are always complex composites of a person's experiences and interests. They are neither fully comprehensible nor fully describable. Nevertheless, the characteristic "attitude" is our most important indicator of the quality of cooperation. Therefore, we should try to understand as much attitude as possible.
By understanding attitude we learn what is possible
Respect!
Wanting to understand attitudes and being allowed to understand them is a characteristic of a functioning relationship. It is based on interest and access. Its functional basis is the foundation of trust and reliability. Open and conscious disclosure of attitudes is based on a person's desire to communicate goals and interests. Gaining and maintaining access to private information about a person's attitudes requires constant and recognizable respect and appreciation. Intrusiveness and abuse are the main threats to the foundation of trust and reliability.
Intentional and conscious disclosure of attitude
is a measure and a characteristic of relationship quality
The benefit for an organisation
A good understanding of individual and collective attitudes in an organisation leads to an improvement in the quality of relationships, efficiency and common direction. The conditions for involving people in planning and processes are optimized. Self-assessments and the basis for evaluating the potential of others are given a better foundation. Individual and collective initiative is made easier and safer. The culture of cooperation is increasingly geared towards a "common cause".
For some organizations, this approach will seem like common practice. Certainly, many are already working hard and intensively towards these goals. Our concept of the "common cause" envisages the alignment of an organization and its members with maxims of action. A cultural adaptation based on growing trust and reliability.
It is not mission statements that shape corporate culture but attitudes!