HVP Indicators: Strategic Conceptualize & Organizational Ability
Part 4: "Why You Do It," or living in light of your long-term outcomes, goals, and visions
For everyone who is new here–so glad to have you! This is the fourth part in a 21-part series about the specific information that is available through a Hartman Value Profile report. The purpose is to create an HVP indicator index for anyone to use, whether you have your own HVP report or not.
If you don’t have a report, this series is designed so that you can use each article as a starting point to notice how you think and make decisions in your daily life. HVP reports reflect very specific information that is often challenging to see in ourselves, but it isn’t necessary to see yourself more clearly.
If you want more info on this series, there’s a quick reference list of previous articles at the end. That’s all for housekeeping—let’s get to the nerdy stuff!
Intro to Strategic Conceptualize & Organizational Ability Indicators
Previously, we talked about information relating to people, intrinsic value, and interpersonal connection. We also talked about information relating to extrinsically valued things, like roles, work, tasks, and material stuff.
Now, Strategic Conceptualize and Organizational Ability is about how clearly we see through the “ideas and strategic concept” lens. This includes abstract ideas and concepts, structures and frameworks. It also includes our clarity of understanding potential long-term results or consequences to current decisions.
Each of the HVP indicators reflect information about who we are, what we do, and why we do it.
These two indicators give us insights about the clarity we have about why we do it, the deeper purpose that drives our daily choices.
The Strategic Conceptualize indicator provides information about how clearly we see strategic ideas, concepts, and information around us as we move through life.
The Organizational Ability indicator gives us information about how comfortable we feel with ideas and concepts, as well as how we organize our thoughts, lives, and the space around us.
Solving Puzzles
The Strategic - Conceptualize indicator is the external, World-side part of this pair. It reflects our bandwidth and even enjoyment for solving the complex, multi-dimensional and long-game puzzles in life.
When we need to run a series of errands around town at the end of the day, we make a mental map in our head to determine how we can get to each location, and the order, to complete all of our tasks before each place closes–it’s this strategic concept map.
Creating a retirement plan involves working with strategic concepts. So does investing, building a business, budgeting, taking care of our health, and raising children.
The Strategic - Conceptualize indicator reflects information about our comfort with mentally flying up to the 30,000 foot view to consider the big-picture, long-term consequences of current choices and decisions. It’s the perspective we use when considering various options available to accomplish goals and bring our visions to life.
Creating Order
On the internal Self-side, the Organizational Ability indicator reflects information about how we organize our thinking, our preferences for organization in our surroundings, and the sense of orderliness we bring to each area of our life.
When we take time to “organize our thoughts” before we talk, we’re using this strategic thinking. When we clean our desk because we “can’t get anything done in this mess,” we’re experiencing too much clutter in this part of our thinking to focus on meaningful work.
We use this strategic thinking when we look at the predicted temperatures to decide how to dress for the day. When we pause before reacting to a conflict or heated conversation and consider the long-term implications of what we want to say, we are also practicing this strategic thinking.
The Organizational Ability indicator gives us information about how we notice and pay attention to the ideas, processes, flows, and frameworks throughout our lives, work, and home.
In Real Life
Practically, when we pay attention to our thinking around strategic concepts and our sense of organization, we have the opportunity to see how open we are to strategic information in and around us.
The more clearly we see signals and symptoms, the sooner we can respond before they grow into larger issues.
We save money, time, energy, and relationships when we have a sense of understanding about the long-term results of the actions we choose today.
Indicator Series:
About the 21-Part Indicator Index
Pt. 2: Tolerance & Meaningfulness of Work
Pt. 3: Trainability & Value of Work