A short podcast episode by Bill Gallagher (Scaling Coach, host of the Scaling Up Business podcast) addressing leaders who can’t make progress because their leadership team is misaligned. Bill recounts taking over a company where leaders lacked trust, commitment, and a shared elevator pitch, then describes fixing it by replacing leaders, aligning on purpose/values/brand promises, and using concrete tools: the Rockefeller Habits checklist, Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and a vision summary. The episode also contains two sponsor ad reads (Doxatalent and Align's Scoreboard) with calls-to-action and URLs.
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Are you struggling to make any progress? Are you finding lots and lots of time chewed up with internal arguments with your leadership team or other key people on your team? If so, I've got some ideas for you. Hi there, I'm Bill Gallagher, scaling coach and host of the Scaling Up Business podcast. You'll find us on itunes, on Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your audio, video content. We bring tips, deep dive conversations with gurus, experts and authors and getting real conversations with CEOs about their leadership journey in growing their businesses. All that and more@scalingcoach.com or all those other places that you get great podcast content. So go find us there and you'll get these every week. So I took over a company some years ago that I wasn't the founder of, but I became a partner in and CEO of eventually. And the old leadership team was there and we had profound disagreements like at our core, deep disagreements about the direction of the company. And in any other business I might have failed and been rejected by the business, except I was now co owner of the business and there was no way I was going. It was gonna go and evolve to be a business that included my perspective, values and approaches. Well, we had an issue where the leaders weren't aligned. That's Rockefeller habit number one. The leaders were not aligned. There wasn't trust. We disagreed but didn't commit. We kept disagreeing and disagreeing and we couldn't articulate any of the core brand promises and the elevator pitch and that kind of thing. There was no consistency or agreement on that. Rockefeller habit number one as well as some of the number eight, some of the other things we've got to go to work on that if you don't have your leaders aligned, it's time to make some changes there now. Eventually those leaders left and I brought in new people and we got everybody on the same page and we used a series of things to do with that. Communication work, trust work. We shared the purpose, the values, the brand promises, the vision for the company, all of that stuff. And that helped to turn the tide. So I'm gonna point you to our Rockefeller Habits checklist. Go check yourself out. Score yourself on that. Look real hard in the mirror, as well as the five dysfunctions of leadership, Pat Lencioni's book and our vision summary. So three tools to point you to to help to go to work on this really, really core thing. I hope it's helpful for you. I hope you can tackle it and begin to make some progress on it. My name is Bill Gallagher. Scalingcoach.com, scaling up business P.O. thanks so much. We'll talk to you again next time.
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