Building Team Alignment: Key Strategies for Executive Leadership Success (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Having good alignment on your team is a very important thing that you got to focus some time and attention around. Hey, I know there might be a struggle internally in your organization because you don't have alignment as an executive team. And I will tell you, if you don't have alignment amongst your senior leadership team, you're going to create all kinds of problems for yourself. It's going to lead to high turnover, low morale. It's going to lead to smaller contribution margins. And it might even make you, as an organization, deficient in your ability to deliver services to all of the people that you care about. So having good alignment on your team is a very important thing that you got to focus some time and attention around. And when I mean focus some time and attention around, there are other contributing factors to make sure that you have good alignment. But if you don't have these things, you'll definitely have bad alignment that will lead to poor outcomes. The first is communication. Communication is an imperative. And many teams fail because they don't have good communication. A second context of that is accountability. That when people are not being held accountable and they're able to do whatever they want to do without any recourse, that leads to how a team can fail very quickly. The third thing that I would say is that the team doesn't have a game plan. If you don't have a game plan and you don't know where you're going, and most people don't know what your mission is or what your objectives are, or they can't name their top five goals off the top of their head, then you don't have alignment on your executive team. And that's going to make it hard for you to fulfill your mission. Now, this all stems back to two things that are problematic in most organizations that you got to fix. The first one is having a common vision. Now, when I say common vision, what's the reason that you came together as a team? What's your common vision for the executive team? What's your common vision for the organization? What's your common vision for the patients and the customers that you serve? What is your common vision? How do you want to do the work? And you got to have a common vision before you can have anything else. The last thing you have to have is you have to have good leadership. Good leadership is going to start with you. So the question is, what are you doing to bring common vision? What are you doing to communicate better? What are you doing to have accountability in your organization? What are you doing to put together a game plan? What are you doing to build alignment? These are all of the questions that you need to ask yourself every day. What am I doing to build alignment in my organization and on my team? And if you're not asking that question, then you sure don't have an answer on how you can communicate better, how you can drive more accountability, how you can build a better game plan, or how you can have a great and inclusive common vision. It's up to you to do that if you want to build alignment and build a world-class culture in your organization. So I hope you get it done and let me know how I can help. Take care.