3D Leadership and Organisational Mapping
Using 3D Mapping to Lead and Manage Organisations
What is 3D Leadership and Organisational Mapping?
Have you ever felt you can't see the wood for the trees? Or that your logical approach is missing a trick and the solution (or even the problem!) remains unclear? Perhaps you think you've found a fix, but it has created a 'leak' elsewhere?
Imagine being able to 'map' an issue in 3 dimensions; being able to 'play' with the pieces on the map to get an overview of a new landscape...to assess, without risk, the wider impact of each 'move' and take decisions that make sense for the system as a whole. 3D Mapping gives you that opportunity and a new way of seeing and understanding an organisation’s dynamics, interconnections, and relationships that may not have been obvious before.
The individual creates a map using people and/or objects to represent the different elements in the system. The map can then be used to identify problems, what’s causing them, and to find workable, sustainable solutions. These maps are also known as 'Constellations'.
An example of this could be mapping a Sales Team and how it connects with the wider organisation, customers and other stakeholders. This would reveal, amongst other aspects, what flows smoothly and what gets in the way.
What are the benefits of using 3D Mapping?
A 3D Organisational or Leadership Map:
- Produces high quality information and results for a relatively small investment in time and money compared with the more common consulting interventions
- Takes a holistic ‘whole system’ approach, which means solutions are more likely to be both workable and sustainable than those arrived at through traditional, linear approaches to problem solving
- Gives the issue-holder (or map-creator) fresh insights and an understanding of complex business issues or problems and how they relate to the ‘big picture’
- Is a rapid process that taps into the power of the unconscious
- Can facilitate a shared understanding of a situation and its dynamics when carried out in a group setting
- Provides ways of experimenting with possible solutions in a safe environment and in a way that can expose any unintended consequences that might flow from a particular change
What sort of issues can 3 D Mapping help to resolve?
Individual Issues
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Organisational Issues
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Leadership Development
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What happens next?
Once a 3D Map is created, it can then be observed and walked around to gain previously unseen perspectives; it can be experimented with, by changing the positioning of the elements, to see what effects small alterations have on the big picture of the system as a whole.
The process is highly intuitive and requires an experienced Facilitator to pick up the subtleties of what is happening in the organisational dynamics. For example, relationship issues such as ‘X can’t stand Y’ would not show up with the heated emotions, but rather as an obstacle in the dynamics that needs attention. This could then be explored further through the Constellation, or in a more private setting such as individual coaching. The Facilitator can help the map-creator to experiment with the system to bring about creative and workable solutions to any issue that emerges.
3D Mapping can be used in one-to-one coaching, with objects on a table top, or in a group setting, using people to represent the different elements. This process has been used extensively in family therapy for many years and has been gaining popularity in the context of business over the past ten years.
As an observer you may be invited to take part in other people’s Constellations as a representative of an element in the map. It’s very common that someone else’s work will resonate and that through their constellation you will clarify a business, leadership or coaching issue of your own.
What about confidentiality?
The information gleaned from a 3D Map can be sensitive (though the information is revealed in a subtle way and may only make sense to the map creator who’s trying to resolve their issue and the Mapping Facilitator). Prior agreement is therefore put in place that participants will not share the information with anybody outside the participating group.
Business leaders may want to work in their own premises with employees. Others may want to explore their organisational issues outside their work environment and without involvement of staff. In this case Pivotal Moment can arrange an external location and bring in trusted participants who know the Mapping process and have no connection to the company or issue-holder. In this case, there would be additional expenses, charged at cost, for the venue and Mapping ‘representatives’.
How long does an event last?
An event could be as short as a half day, or be run over a series of days and anything in between, depending on the number of issues being worked on. A typical Mapping event would involve an initial, short briefing with the Facilitator, followed by one or more Mapping exercises, according to the organisation’s needs, with individual debriefs of the issue holder/s with the Facilitator. Following such events, Pivotal Moment can support leadership or organisational issues that emerge from the process through individual coaching.
Once a 3D Map is created, it can then be observed and walked around to gain previously unseen perspectives; it can be experimented with, by changing the positioning of the elements, to see what effects small alterations have on the big picture of the system as a whole.
The process is highly intuitive and requires an experienced Facilitator to pick up the subtleties of what is happening in the organisational dynamics. For example, relationship issues such as ‘X can’t stand Y’ would not show up with the heated emotions, but rather as an obstacle in the dynamics that needs attention. This could then be explored further through the Constellation, or in a more private setting such as individual coaching. The Facilitator can help the map-creator to experiment with the system to bring about creative and workable solutions to any issue that emerges.
3D Mapping can be used in one-to-one coaching, with objects on a table top, or in a group setting, using people to represent the different elements. This process has been used extensively in family therapy for many years and has been gaining popularity in the context of business over the past ten years.
As an observer you may be invited to take part in other people’s Constellations as a representative of an element in the map. It’s very common that someone else’s work will resonate and that through their constellation you will clarify a business, leadership or coaching issue of your own.
What about confidentiality?
The information gleaned from a 3D Map can be sensitive (though the information is revealed in a subtle way and may only make sense to the map creator who’s trying to resolve their issue and the Mapping Facilitator). Prior agreement is therefore put in place that participants will not share the information with anybody outside the participating group.
Business leaders may want to work in their own premises with employees. Others may want to explore their organisational issues outside their work environment and without involvement of staff. In this case Pivotal Moment can arrange an external location and bring in trusted participants who know the Mapping process and have no connection to the company or issue-holder. In this case, there would be additional expenses, charged at cost, for the venue and Mapping ‘representatives’.
How long does an event last?
An event could be as short as a half day, or be run over a series of days and anything in between, depending on the number of issues being worked on. A typical Mapping event would involve an initial, short briefing with the Facilitator, followed by one or more Mapping exercises, according to the organisation’s needs, with individual debriefs of the issue holder/s with the Facilitator. Following such events, Pivotal Moment can support leadership or organisational issues that emerge from the process through individual coaching.
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