Building a Shared Mental Model to Rekindle Collaboration

Building a Shared Mental Model to Rekindle Collaboration.

The ability to develop an accurate mental model often separates successful companies from organizations that do not survive.

So what exactly is a company’s mental model? Simply put, a robust mental model eliminates internal confusion. The mental model is a framework that simplifies a potentially complicated strategy, allowing everyone in the organization to internalize the strategy and be guided by it.

Great companies build and share their mental model internally in ways that enable managers and employees to independently make critical decisions day in and day out that are aligned with the strategy. Without a strong mental model strategy can become open to interpretation, decision making can become bogged down, or both can occur at once.