Leadership Alignment

The Issue

Many companies are challenged with how best to align their leadership teams around critical expectations and aspirations. Often, the quest to get everybody working together to achieve expressed norms, values and goals seems so difficult, the organization stops trying.  Yet, the lack of leadership alignment results in unmet business goals, conflict, personal dissatisfaction, misplaced priorities and muddy communication.

Our Point of View

• Leadership alignment should be focused on the business strategy, values, and operating model.
• Understanding the specific consequences of leadership misalignment is critical to fixing this problem.
• Careful assessment and evaluation of gaps in alignment is very important; moving at the right pace in trying to correct these points of misalignment is a key to success.
• Though systems and processes are helpful to guide and measure leadership alignment, direct communication and a culture of feedback are necessary to ensure continuous leadership alignment.
• Individual coaching is an important component in creating doorways for improved alignment through the development of improved business acumen and emotional intelligence.

Our Approach

The process we follow includes these key steps:

• Understand the current operating model and motives for actions and behaviors across the leadership team.
• Identify ways that leadership views and actions are misaligned, and determine the tangible consequences of the misalignment.
• Gain commitment around the need to eliminate these consequences.
• Establish a unified understanding among the leaders of how the organization creates value, and an approach to setting organizational priorities based on the impact on value creation.
• Develop a new leadership operating model that defines the accountabilities, decision making authorities, success measures, etc. across the leadership team relating to key organizational priorities.
• Develop the habits of focus and discipline across the leadership team to consistently execute on the operating model and on the organizational priorities.

Typical Benefits

• Higher rate of leaders accomplishing their goals and performance objectives.
• Greater organizational performance and value creation.
• Greater efficiency and productivity in how work gets done.
• Higher employee satisfaction and engagement.
• Fewer power struggles within the organization.

To learn more, contact us by phone at (312) 523-2123 or by email.