Review & Applications

The Spiral Trajectory

The Spiral analysis provides a development perspective, a time frame and an orientation to change, missing from the analysis of interacting-for-benefit mentalities/approaches.

  • Anyone and everyone can be aware of the principles and values of each Mode, and should take seriously the potential dangers. View all the principles of the 7 Stages together in a matrix.
  • Not everyone wishes, needs or is able to progress through the whole Spiral, but making the maximum progress is usually advantageous. See: a synoptic diagram and a review of the transitions.
  • The trajectory viewed as a whole reveals different types of demand made on a person as their career develops, especially in regard to the two cycles. See: the pattern of demands in career growth.

The Next Step

  • Anyone thinking about or planning their own personal and career development.
  • Line managers and personnel staff who should be assessing and enabling the development and potentials of employees.
  • Management Consultants, Life Coaches and similar.
  • Needless to say, working professionally with these THEE tools requires a solid grasp of the underlying Framework.

The spiral can help managers and leaders grasp distinctive forms of working and ways of handling people and groups. It is possible to promote improvement by de-emphasizing systematic progression and simply applying the principles.

Two examples are provided here:

  1. Distinctive Challenges for Leadership

  2. Distinctive Needs for Team Working

All leaders look to get the maximum cooperation to produce desired results. But what is involved in «cooperating for results»?

The Spiral Framework is diachronic: its Modes evolve in Stages and develop through time. However, the framework also provides the basis for identifying a Tree which provides a synchronic view. In the Tree, the Stages become Levels that interact and influence each other continuously.

By applying a dynamic duality, we can see how the "3 Cs" of the watershed Stage-4: cooperation, consensus & collaboration are operated (largely unconsciously) at any moment in time.

Proceed to THEE's intellectual technology for getting effective cooperation.

Originally posted: July 2009