Model Leadership Alignment

Ensure that your leadership team operates with clarity and unity. Misalignment at the top cascades down. Create shared operating principles and regular alignment checks so leaders model the collaboration you expect elsewhere.

Why it's Matters

If leadership isn’t aligned, no one else will be. Misalignment at the top cascades into every team, every sprint, every roadmap. Great strategy dies when leaders operate in silos.

What You Need to Do

Build alignment into exec/leadership meeting structures
Agree on shared principles for decision-making
Model the behaviours you want to see: transparency, clarity, follow-through
Create space to surface tension and recalibrate before it spreads

How to Approach It

Establish regular exec-level strategy syncs
Draft shared alignment or leadership charter
Normalize reflective alignment check-ins
Close the loop on internal leadership tensions

Deliverables

Leadership alignment charter
Cross-functional “working norms” doc

How to Tell if You Got It Right

Alignment check-in completion rate
Cross-team leadership feedback (qualitative pulse checks)

What to Watch Out For

Execs aligned in meetings but divergent in behaviour
Strategy delegated without shared ownership
Culture of avoiding difficult conversations