Coaching practices for Organizational Vmeme
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- There’s a constant low-grade friction between me and the place I work that I can’t name
- The very drive I’m proud of
- My team is buried under recurring meetings and reports that everyone privately thinks are pointless, but no single person can just kill them
- I do my job competently and stay neatly inside my lane, and I sense that’s exactly why I’m read as just-a-role-filler
- My departments are each winning their own little battles while the whole thing loses
Practices that may help
- Map the value system of your organization or team
Identify the vMEME your team or organization actually operates from, not just espouses.
Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical - Distinguish healthy from unhealthy expressions of each level
Every vMEME has a healthy and a pathological form — know which you’re expressing.
Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical - Run a regular team elimination review
Periodically review what the team is doing that no longer serves any current goal.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Expand your role through extra-role behavior
Voluntarily take on work beyond your formal responsibilities to signal readiness for a higher-trust relationship.
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical - Cover and move (teamwork over silos)
Every team and department exists to support the others toward the same mission, not to win locally.
Extreme Ownership, Made Practical - Mussar vaad: group practice and teaching
Join or form a small Mussar study group for shared learning, honest feedback, and communal accountability.
Mussar: The Jewish Path of Character - Eliminate Q4 tasks systematically
Identify the recurring time-wasters — meetings, reports, subscriptions — and cancel, decline, or automate them.
The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation - Communicate across value-system differences
Translate your message into the motivational language of the person you’re trying to reach.
Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical - Spiral Dynamics, Made Practical
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed. - Communicate your theme-day structure to collaborators
Let colleagues know which days are off-limits for meetings so the structure is sustainable, not secret.
Theme Days, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Beige Stage Spiral Dynamics Survival Instinct
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
- Blue Stage Spiral Dynamics Order Rules Authority
Recognize when you’re bypassing a developmental level that still has unresolved challenges.
Avoid level-jumping: build through each stage rather than skipping
- Green Stage Spiral Dynamics Equality Pluralism Community
Practice holding multiple value systems as simultaneously valid rather than competing for dominance.
Develop second-tier, systems-level thinking
- Organizational Value System Spiral Dynamics
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
- Shadow Expressions Spiral Dynamics
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
- Spiral Dynamics Purple Stage Tribal Bonding Belonging
Spiral Dynamics, developed by Don Beck and Chris Cowan from Clare Graves’ research, maps human values and worldviews as a developmental spiral of "vMEMEs" (value systems) that respond to life conditions. Each tier addresses the adaptive challenges of its environment and transcends but includes what came before. The theory is influential in leadership and organizational development, but its empirical base is primarily Graves’ original clinical/interview research; the full stage-sequence model has not been rigorously trialed.
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