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Facilitator • Supportive: listening, non-judgemental, affirming • Undermining: overemotional, withdrawn, defensive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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