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What is relational architecture?
The practice of making working relationships visible and developing clearer arrangements between people, their responsibilities, and the work they share.
What is Your relationprint?
Your relationprint is a client-owned reference for working agreements you have tested and chosen to adopt. It may begin with one concise Blueprint on paper or in existing tools, with a current version, maintainer, and review point.
What implementation support is included?
Your proposal specifies the recording, agreed-format preparation, and practical handover included in the engagement. Additional tool configuration, migration, training, or wider adoption support receives its own scope, participation, and fee. The working guide can begin on paper or in existing tools.
Who is Leadership for?
Founders, entrepreneurs, independent practitioners, new managers, and experienced leaders. Leadership starts with how you work, including the relationships with clients, collaborators, vendors, and the systems you use. You can begin while working on your own, before complexity grows.
What do Foundations, Alignment, and Integration mean?
They describe depth of support. Foundations establishes a focused starting arrangement. Alignment connects several recurring situations and agreements. Integration sustains and evolves the operating rhythm through growth, complexity, or transition. Each depth is available across Leadership, Teams, and Organizations.
Where does organization-wide work begin?
A common first step is Executive Team Alignment: a defined team engagement lasting four to six months. Sustained organizational work expands from the executive center, combining selected team engagements, cross-team interfaces, and quarterly Prioritizer and Facilitator Forums. Wider programs last twelve or eighteen months and are scoped by proposal.
How much time will we commit?
Leadership scopes reserve 9, 15, or 27 hours for one participant. Team scopes reserve 9, 21, or 39 group hours per person, plus included joint/private support scheduled for the prioritizer and facilitator. These totals include the later review; preparation and practical trials add participant time. Organization-wide participation is shown in a combined named schedule before you commit.
What am I buying: sessions, documents, or software?
You buy a professionally guided engagement. Andrew brings organizational-design expertise, practical recommendations, facilitation, and agreed deliverables. Your people help draw and test working arrangements, and authorized leaders decide what to adopt. You own any resulting guide in familiar tools; the proposal specifies what is included.
Do we need to learn a whole framework first?
No. We begin with your real work and pencil and paper. Andrew introduces only the questions and drawing conventions that help your people understand and improve it.
Can we work on a single issue?
Yes. A focused project or working day can address one meaningful situation. Any of the six dimensions may be useful; broader engagements allow more connected work and sustained review.
Can this work for nonprofits, boards, or volunteers?
Yes. The work is shaped around the people, purpose, authority, and working arrangements involved. Governance and staff operations receive clear, separate scopes.
Will you recommend technology or tools?
Where useful, a focused project can clarify requirements, compare options, and recommend a practical way forward. Configuration, migration, and specialist delivery receive their own agreed scope.
Will this replace our existing system?
We build on useful practices and the tools people already use. Together, we identify the agreements worth refining and the changes worth trying.
How do confidentiality and private leadership sessions work?
We agree confidentiality, sponsor updates, record access, and the boundaries of private conversations before starting. Pair and team engagements preserve explicitly agreed private space.
How do we measure progress?
We agree the purpose and choose indicators tied to the opportunity: clearer decision ownership, shorter waiting time, more dependable handoffs, or easier access to information. Reviews distinguish useful findings and learning from demonstrated gains, alongside the effort invested and any tradeoffs.
What happens after the engagement?
A named maintainer and review arrangement help adopted agreements stay useful. Standard engagements include a scheduled follow-through around 90 days after closing. Further support can be scoped around the next opportunity.
Start with a conversation
A useful place to begin.
Bring a real situation. We will explore the opportunity and agree a sensible next step.
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