Leaders and organizations develop patterns as well—habits in terms of our ‘posture’ and how we move and get things done. The concept of leadership alignment plays a huge role here. The challenge is that we don’t always recognize it. We might have organizational stiffness, aches, and pains—but that’s normal, right?
Both leaders and organizations develop patterns that can pull teams out of alignment, restrict their ability to achieve results, or just make things more difficult than necessary. These patterns show up in our personal approach to leadership, relationships, organizational systems, and culture.
Here’s the thing: Dysfunction in one area can contribute to dysfunction in others. But improvement in one area can contribute to improvements throughout the system. That’s the exciting thing about improving patterns—it often has system-wide impacts.
To make this more tangible, here are examples of what patterns in leadership alignment can look like …
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