Coaching practices for Team Alignment Practices

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I treat my whole team the same way and run the same kind of one-on-one with everyone, and it’s landing flat
• Everyone on my team is quietly playing for their own scoreboard
• My team only ever gets the leftover scraps from me, and it shows
• I look around at the people I’ve hired and they all think exactly like me
• I lead a team and I’ve realized the people I lean on most are the ones who remind me of myself or are just easy to be around

Practices that may help

1. Treat each person as an individual with distinct needs and aspirations
   Know what each team member needs to grow and provide support tailored to them.
   Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
2. Align around collective results, not individual status
   Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
   The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
3. Use delegation as a development tool
   Assign Q3 tasks to team members who are ready to stretch — and treat the learning curve as the point.
   The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation
4. Build a team whose combined strengths cover all four domains
   Hire and assemble deliberately for domain coverage, not for people who think like you.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
5. Manage LMX differentiation fairly as a leader
   Acknowledge that you develop different relationships with different people — and ensure the differences are earned, not arbitrary.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
6. Cover and move (teamwork over silos)
   Every team and department exists to support the others toward the same mission, not to win locally.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
7. Deliberately expand your inner circle
   Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
8. Create a culture of peer-to-peer accountability
   Teams that only hold each other accountable through the manager haven’t built real accountability at all.
   The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
9. There are no bad teams, only bad leaders
   The same people perform differently under different leadership — so start with the leadership.
   Extreme Ownership, Made Practical
10. Spend real time on growth, not just tasks
    Regularly leave the weeds and talk about career, skills, and where they’re headed.
    Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical

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