{"id":403,"date":"2020-05-06T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zynity.com\/resources\/?p=403"},"modified":"2023-11-30T19:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:48:59","slug":"connect-and-align-or-the-parts-will-grow-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/2020\/05\/06\/connect-and-align-or-the-parts-will-grow-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect and Align, or the parts will grow apart"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The executive leadership team must be connected and aligned at the thinking level. The team\u2019s actions, reactions, and interactions get amplified throughout the organization. A defined and clarified executive leadership system is needed to establish structure and discipline.<\/p>

It is a natural tendency as organizations grow\u2026the parts grow apart. Most of us have our list of offenses and examples of the negatives of this \u2018silo\u2019 phenomenon. The growing apart begins with the disconnected and misaligned executive leadership team. They get focused on their area and become territorial. Their recognition (and compensation) depends upon it. The negatives increase over time and spread to all levels of the organization.<\/p>

The solution begins with the executive leadership team connecting, aligning, and engaging with one another in a structured and disciplined process. Each one on the team must share their thinking about the \u2018big issue\u2019 topics confronting them. Their thinking is helping, distracting, or hurting their and the organization\u2019s performance. The big issues they are concerned about must be \u2018on the table\u2019 with one another. Trust begins with sharing, clarity, and transparency.<\/p>

What is going on in their minds impacts significantly how they react and interact with one another. The ongoing discipline of sharing and interacting with each other\u2019s key issues (in bullet point form) helps the team connect at their thinking and emotional level. It doesn\u2019t take a lot of time. Unexpressed thinking often \u2018leaks out\u2019 into behaviors that are confusing to others. We often hear, \u2018Where did that come from?<\/em>\u2019, when witnessing a leader react unexpectedly in a normal situation. The fix begins with a healthy and open dynamics as a team.<\/p>

We now live, lead, and work in a virtual world. Executive leadership teams are the single most impactful team in organizations. How they connect, align, and engage is a significant contributor to how well the parts of the organization connect, align, and engage with one another.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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We are passionate about helping executive teams get to their exceptional level.<\/p>

To help this movement, I have devoted years to building the system presented in the Exceptional Executive Teams <\/b><\/i>book. I wish I had known this earlier in my life. I would have contributed to others’ lives even more positively.<\/p>

For a PDF copy of the book Exceptional Executive Teams<\/b><\/i>, click here<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/p>

\u00a9 Copyright 2019 to present by Dwaine Canova All Rights Reserved Dwaine is the author of the book Exceptional Executive Teams<\/b><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Executive Leadership Teams: Connect and Align, or the parts will grow apart The executive leadership team must be connected and aligned at the thinking level. The team\u2019s actions, reactions, and interactions get amplified throughout the organization. A defined and clarified executive leadership system is needed to establish structure and discipline. It is a natural tendency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwainecanova.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}