Master Your Alignment: The Ace Mindset Alignment Blueprint Framework

By Laëtitia Gnago MBA CPTM MCCT PPPC

Master Your Alignment, The Ace Mindset Alignment Blueprint Framework, serves as a guide of reference to help professionals at every level leverage the skill of Alignment as a competency. Alignment is essentially a combination of strategic thinking acumen and how we can show up in any environment. By choosing to pay attention to the quality of our thoughts we can create powerful experiences for ourselves and that practical tool can be leveraged to impact the trajectory of our journeys, both personally and professionally. This framework will evoke an elevated sense of consciousness by those who choose this approach as their caliber for excellence. It cultivates and fosters a thought process that, once understood and practiced, can become part of one’s approach to solving challenges that present themselves in the realm of professional dynamics, ascend situational and circumstantial levels, contribute to self-confidence and ultimately, help us succeed in healthy ways throughout our lives and careers. Access to this competency empowers people to consistently operate as the best version of themselves and on a continuum. The result: Their professional value increases as they hold the quality of being a high performing professional and an authentic leader.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669807759

Laëtitia Gnago MBA CPTM MCCT PPPC

Laetitia Gnago is a passionate Talent Development and Talent Management Practitioner, Strategist and Leader who spent 20 years in the corporate world working with people from all walks of life, cultures, and professional levels within a variety of industries. She learned how people think in professional settings and what makes few of them powerful and influential. Those who do well tend to have something special in them. That common denominator is Alignment. Laëtitia Gnago is also the founder of Aligned Corporate Experiences (ACE). She is a Thought Leader, Talent Experience Enhancement Strategist, Alignment Success Architect, Author, and Podcaster who serves as your Partner for Success. She teaches and coaches her fellow professionals strategic thinking acumen via the skill of Alignment as a competency through her platform: Alignment University. Her goal: to support organizations by helping High Performing Professionals & (emerging) Leaders operate as the best version of themselves. Laëtitia holds a master of business administration and several certifications in the talent development and management industry. The first two books she published are Ace Your Professional Journey (2020); and Master Your Alignment (2022).

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Contents

Dedication Page

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1 Context and Overview

PART II

Chapter 2 Ace Mindset Alignment Blueprint Framework

PART III

Chapter 3 Alignment Clarity

Chapter 4 Align

Chapter 5 Create & Design

Chapter 6 Embrace & Enjoy

Conclusion

DEDICATION PAGE

This book is dedicated to all the people I serve and support with my work. We are a community of like-minded people who operate from a place of alignment. My intention is to help with bridging gaps most of us experience at some point or another that we will continue to undergo as we live through our ever-changing world. My intention is to provide a set of best practices that those who want to indulge and engage in successful experiences can leverage and use as stepping stones to fulfilling their greatest achievements; and do so in a manner that is sensible, practical and manageable. My intention is to reach the millions of people and professionals alike who question their level of worthiness due to the systems and thought processes they may have misunderstood and help increase the collective’s consciousness which has evoked interest in the material provided herein. I am glad we have found each other. Let us move forward in our quest to make the most of our journeys and make it work for each of us. To those who have been in support of my endeavors, I thank you, for I value and appreciate our connection and relatability. I hope this serves as an opportunity for all of us to continue to evolve along our parallel paths with authenticity. My quest is to impact our world’s alignment, so that we can all thrive. To those watching from above, I hope I am still making you proud.

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PREFACE

This book serves as a sequel to my first book: Ace Your Professional Journey - The Ace Mindset Alignment Paradigm, where a process of transformation is demonstrated through understanding the impact of one’s mindset. The idea: to transition from one state of mind to another and change circumstances for the better, especially in cases where someone finds themselves having to manage a variety of challenging dynamics in new environments. This book, Master Your Alignment details the Ace Mindset Alignment Blueprint Framework. It is the next logical step to maintaining Alignment and serves as the support system for Alignment Skills Mastery. The first book’s focus was on overcoming challenges and emerging from difficulties and as a stepping stone, so to speak. This book is focused on the Now What? part of one’s experience. No specific concern, but the need to improve and to continue to evolve naturally exists in some way and the eagerness to reach for more is there as well. This book focuses on the long-term experience for continuation of success, even when things are calm. A practical How To so to speak for experience navigation. It is very important to me that I leave behind a trace of the wisdom that I have acquired, learned, practiced and benefited from to the world at large. Consider this is my strategic thinking acumen legacy, on your behalf. Specifically, for a long time, I have felt a need to help make this world a better place. Through my work experiences encountering hundreds of professionals from all walks of life, backgrounds, thought processes and mindsets I felt no choice but to develop an understanding of what makes some professionals more influential, more resilient, more capable of adapting to change, and more willing to adjust to circumstances and unexpected curve balls that are thrown their way in the professional world and essentially, more able to maneuver challenging personalities with confidence, more successfully. It has always been exciting to me to gain a level of conscious awareness and apply it to my experiences. So, it is sensible that I feel the need to share this knowledge with others so that they, in turn, can impact their own potential for success. The world of work and its dynamics are not always easy to navigate. Having clarity, an understanding of how things really work and a game plan to deal with the unclear, bumpy, confusing schemes we sometimes find ourselves on the receiving end of and experience when having to deal with others has to be dealt with strategy in order to create fruitful experiences and healthy environments for ourselves. I invite you to relish in the content of this read. I have created a new standard for managing circumstances and maintaining alignment in a professional context. One that will serve as a support system to help you break patterns and create new cycles, effect change, maintain your character and disposition and organize your temperament in your responsiveness to the things that matter to you. And the best part is, you don’t need anyone else. Simply put, there is incredible value in this blueprint framework and it was created for you to capitalize on it so that you can have a solid approach to master your professional journey via your alignment. Assuming you have tried many things already, including setting yourself up for success in other ways, from your education, to your technical and soft/human/power skills, to your professionalism and leveraging of connections...etc... My goal is to help you help yourself and manage your circumstances effectively. Your ability to maintain your Alignment is your competitive edge and the key to your success. For now I leave you with this: Being in Alignment is a Powerful place to be.

Laëtitia Gnago

Founder

Aligned Corporate Experiences

www.AlignedCorporateExperiences.com

FOREWORD

In this book, Laëtitia draws from her wealth of experience to provide a helpful framework for navigating and growing from professional and personal challenges. By trusting our own instincts and getting in better touch with our emotions, Laëtitia demonstrates how we can make decisions that leave us feeling empowered and full of clarity. Her step-by-step guide gives us the toolkit to leverage our strengths, values, and our unique contributions to live a life of integrity, authenticity, purpose, and vitality. 

Selin C. McCurdy

Coach, Career Transitions and Career Wellness

INTRODUCTION

About Aligned Corporate Experiences

At Aligned Corporate Experiences we believe that every single professional has gifts and talents to offer to a variety of entities in unique ways. Everyone has the potential to be successful. Some just need to figure out the areas in which they are naturally gifted so that they can expand. And that’s a process in itself. Our purpose is essentially to promote healthy corporate citizenship by creating a culture of Alignment at the individual level. We believe every professional can manage a measure of control over the course of their careers and their professional journeys beyond the status quo. In order for them to reach the level of success they desire, whatever that may be for each of them, having a set of standards that are sensible, pragmatic and manageable is a great foundation to leverage as a set of best practices. Aligned Corporate Experiences serves as a partner to professionals at all levels, from Line Employee support staff to those at the Executive Leadership level and beyond at the Board level, including the Innovative Architecting types. We serve the professional in their quest for maintaining their Alignment and succeeding in whatever endeavor they choose to pursue, valuing self experience and taking into consideration that success may mean different things to different professionals. In 2020, I, Laëtitia Gnago, the company’s founder, took upon myself to try and make a difference in the careers of my fellow professionals. At the time I started pursuing that mission, generally, it appeared that there was something missing in the way in which people with good intentions and companies with good intentions just the same, were not aligning in ways conducive to them both succeeding harmoniously. I believe that the success of organizations does not need to happen at the detriment of those serving them with their work. At the same time, professionals entrusted with the intellectual property of the organizations by way of those they hire are expected to handle their positions with accountability and in good faith. With the countless challenges I have faced over the years in my career I thought, there has to be a better way. Working at a job is supposed to be a good and healthy experience. Not perfect, but overall, one’s ability to maintain their sense of self while undergoing the countless circumstances and challenges that present themselves should be approached strategically. That’s when the concept of an Ace came to life. An Ace is a person who excels. It will be mentioned throughout this read. The Ace Mindset Alignment Paradigm from the Ace Your Professional Journey book was created to solve the challenge of not having a roadmap for acing one’s professional journey. It is the most powerful roadmap to success. When we must think beyond traditional education, social connections, performance ability, skills acquisition and display alike, one’s mindset is the key determinant in creating and designing the type of professional experience that is strategic and that adds value to one’s career. This book, Master Your Alignment - The Ace Mindset Alignment Blueprint Framework serves as its astute consequence so that anyone can have the tools to master their alignment. Without a framework in place for professionals to leverage, the world of work will continue to unravel in its maintenance of unevolved environments that are filled with scandals, cheats, lies, control, grotesque lack of accountability and subsequent unfortunate impact on inculpable hard working professionals whose intentions are pure and which have historically resulted in the detriments of those who lack strategy in their approach to working in the dynamics of our corporate entities. For professionals to lead organizations in a manner that is healthy, they must first maintain their own alignment as human individuals so that, when they are given the privilege of leading others by the title they are bestowed, for the most part, their experiences and that of those trusted to be in their care result in healthy corporate citizenship. A leader who is connected with who they are is in a position to be effective, respected and successful. And they understand, they have led themselves, first by investing in their own alignment.

The Ace Mindset Alignment Blueprint Framework

I created the Ace Mindset Alignment Blueprint Framework to help my fellow professionals master their alignment. I did this by establishing a standard for best practices (methods) and strategies (actions) anyone can use to maintain healthy corporate citizenship. It starts with the mind. A professional’s mindset has a significant influence over the course and trajectory of their careers and what they consider success. What they believe to be true about themselves, their potential, their abilities to learn, their professional capacities, the value of their skills and talents, the organization and team they work with, their perspectives on their values versus that of the environments in which they work, their reasons for staying there, and so much more all encompass a set of convictions that they subconsciously create for themselves and that precedes them. That vibe they offer or give off has an impact on their professional journey. My goal is to provide clarity for the basis and formula that can help professionals transform their situations and circumstances, help them improve their self-confidence and ultimately, succeed in much healthier ways throughout their careers. This Ace Mindset Alignment Blueprint Framework serves as a guide of reference to help professionals in that regard for maintaining the skill of Alignment; which is essentially a combination of strategic thinking acumen and how we show up in our environments. Specifically, the quality of the standards of this framework will evoke an elevated level of consciousness by those who choose this approach as their caliber for excellence. It cultivates and fosters a thought process that, once understood and practiced, can become part of one’s approach to solving challenges that present themselves in the realm of professional dynamics. This will result in a significant impact and it will help mastering one’s professional journey, remaining open for growth, change and feeling successful along the way.

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1. Think: Monitor your thoughts

2. Believe: Believe in your own potential and that all things will unfold to your highest good

3. Assess: Question things from the perspective of an Ace, someone who excels

4. Flow: Emit behaviors conducive to your desires

5. Match: Take on the