16 Team Alignment Challenges You Can Solve
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Unfortunately, strong and healthy team alignment is rare. But it’s not only possible to achieve, it’s absolutely within your reach. If your teams are perfectly aligned, you don’t need to read any further.
If you’re not sure how well aligned they are, go through the following 16 Team Alignment Challenges. Perfectly aligned teams suffer none of these complaints and conditions.
- We are all working hard but pulling in different directions
- We suffer from low trust and poor team dynamics
- Our decision-making process is slow and cumbersome
- Lively, healthy debate is rare
- We miss too many deadlines and commitments
- We suffer from poor accountability
- Low passion and engagement hold us back
- Personal agendas get in the way
- Poor performers drag down team results
- We get bogged down in ineffective meetings
- Our level of innovation is low
- Our departments work in silos
- We’re all sick of dealing with lip service
- Conflict prevents growth
- We don’t leverage each other’s strengths
- Too many people play too many games
If you recognize any one of these challenges, look around. Many leaders in other companies bring up the same complaints. How do you think I came up with this list?
Right at the top, I promised that you can overcome all of these challenges. I’m not saying it will be easy or quick. But all teamwork challenges are solvable.
Why Wait?
Misaligned teams struggle to achieve superior results challenged by a host of behavioral, organizational, and other constraints. That’s why Team Alignment is the secret ingredient that separates great teams from mediocre teams.
To learn how to add the ingredient to your teams, visit our Team Alignment pages. There you’ll find what you need to know plus links to several documents that go even deeper. If you’d rather start a conversation on the subject, you can reach me at info@align4profit.com or 972-608-0400.
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