The Power of Alignment

What is Alignment?

• Alignment is a relationship to decisions.
• It's an approach to decisions that leads you to own decisions as if they were yours.
• Alignment is the most powerful relationship you can have to a decision.
• Alignment is a choice.
• It's also a commitment to have a decision work.
• If you're aligned, then you both own the decision like it's yours and you're committed to making the decision work.
• Also, alignment is not a one-time thing. It must be sustained over time. It's an ongoing commitment, an attitude, a state of mind.

Why is Alignment, especially, Executive Team Alignment important?

• Rational reason – when a group or team is aligned, it can get more done, with less effort than similar teams that are not aligned.
• Emotional reason – when a group is aligned, drama and dysfunction are reduced, people are happier and more fulfilled, and dedication and engagement go way up.
• Tangible reason – organizations that are aligned are 300-400% more profitable than those that are not.

How does an organization ensure Alignment?

1. Teach everyone what alignment is and the benefit of alignment.
2. Implement tools that support alignment, an effective and formal decision-making tools are a must, but there are others – see key tools below.
3. Practice getting and staying aligned as you decide and implement at work.
4. Reflect upon recent decisions and implementations with respect to alignment.  Did we align?  Did we stay aligned?  How can we do it better next time?
5. Keep this process evergreen.  Talk about it all the time.  Retrain.  Reflect a lot. 

Key Tools

• Write us at info@tplshow.org for a free guide on how to achieve and maintain executive and organizational alignment.
• The Transformational Power of Executive Team Alignment by Miles Kiersen.
• Full Show Notes & Transcript https://www.dropbox.com/s/3v80vqurorf779h/Show%20Notes%20and%20Transcript%20for%20episode%209%20-%20the%20Power%20of%20Alignment.pdf?dl=0