Qi Guide
A simple way to explain the AEM-Cube
Three Factors of Interaction
• Cognitive diversity - diversity of thinking styles
• Psychological safety - a safe environment within which to express ideas and take risks
• Dynamic perspective - a dual focus on the detail and the bigger picture
“Each of us depending on our AEM profiles have positive tendencies and negative tendencies with respect how we interact with others”
Four AEM Profiles Your Qi Preference
The Facilitator: the team, participation, empathy and inclusion
The Transformer: possibilities, imagination, connecting people with
opportunities
The Implementer: practicality, quality, detail and efficiency
The Innovator: the new, the unknown, information and complexity
Contribution to Cognitive Diversity
Facilitator • Effective: focused on the needs of others, patient, considerate, validating,
encouraging • Disruptive: stubborn, over-sensitive, passive, avoidant
Transformer • Effective: inspiring, creative, responsive, exciting • Disruptive: arrogant, dismissive, impatient, impulsive
Implementer • Effective: output oriented, thorough, persistent, focus on quality • Disruptive: procedural, resistant, stuck in ways
Innovator • Effective: relentless, objective, evidence seeking, curious • Disruptive: hard to convince, fixated on being right
Contribution to Psychological Safety
Facilitator • Supportive: listening, non-judgemental, affirming • Undermining: overemotional, withdrawn, defensive
Transformer • Supportive: inspirational, generating optimism, inquiring, encouraging • Undermining: impatient with nonbelievers, rushed, unsympathetic
Implementer • Supportive: taking responsibility, productive, pragmatic • Undermining: cautious, pessimistic, short-sighted
Innovator • Supportive: providing solutions, generating ideas, and irrepressible
enthusiasm • Undermining: critical, intellectually incomprehensible, belittling
Balanced Perspective Expert focus: quick to assess the situation, recommend and initiate action based on experience and technical knowledge
Integrative focus: concerned with consolidating different views, building shared context and commitment before acting
Contribution to a Balanced Perspective
Expert • Positive: selflessly contribute in the moment without
fear of rejection and expectation of reward • Negative: pedantic, insistent on your point of view,
rejection of alternative views
Integrator • Positive: relate to the ‘why?’, validate alternative views,
build connections • Negative: procrastinate, indecisive, inclined to analysis
paralysis
Improvement Commitment With reference to your AEM profile consider your:
• Effective/Disruptive tendencies regarding cognitive diversity
• Supportive /Undermining tendencies regarding psychological safety
• Positive/Negative tendencies regarding balanced perspective
Identify an area for improvement and frame your commitment as an, ‘I will’ statement, to strengthen your Qi performance.
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