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There’s a Gap in Your Team’s Alignment

When 5 familiar signs appear despite smart people and good intentions the issue is not effort but barriers constraining execution.

5 signs your team’s performance is being constrained (despite having smart people and good intentions):

  • Decisions are revisited more often than they’re executed.

  • You have more meetings, and more people in said meetings, but less clarity and ownership.

  • Conversations are overly polite when they should be direct.

  • Teams are protecting their functions more fiercely than the business outcomes.

  • Leaders are spending time translating what has already been said.

This doesn’t mean your team lacks talent. It means invisible barriers are doing what barriers do… driving a wedge between effort and outcomes.

So what are your options?

  1. Add meetings. Tighten timelines. Ask for more effort.

  2. Normalize the dysfunction and learn to work around it.

  3. Address barriers with candor by naming what’s in the way and productively debating solutions. Creating a shared reality and the conditions (confidence) for risk taking.

Option C is challenging. It requires discernment. And yet it is the only option that actually changes execution by closing the alignment gap.

You don’t need more effort. You need fewer obstacles.

If any of the signs above felt uncomfortably familiar, this is your sign you need deeper alignment:

Tomorrow, we’re continuing the conversation during our live webinar, Increase Team Execution by Closing the Alignment Gap hosted by Lisa Marie Main at 11:00am EST.