{"id":2736,"date":"2021-05-16T18:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T02:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2021-05-16T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T02:21:16","slug":"diagnosing-the-source-of-team-misalignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/diagnosing-the-source-of-team-misalignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosing The Source Of Team Misalignment"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It\u2019s one thing to detect as a team that you have an alignment issue, it\u2019s another to diagnose the source of the misalignment.<\/span><\/p>

When you\u2019re working to get to the root cause of misalignment, start with assessing your team\u2019s degree of alignment on the Five Ws & How (5W1H):<\/span><\/p>

1. Who:<\/strong> Who is your project for? Who needs to be involved and who needs to know what? Who has ownership and accountability for what?<\/span><\/p>

2. What:<\/strong> What\u2019s your project for? What are your goals? What does success look like?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

3. Where:<\/strong> Where are you shipping your work (what\u2019s the medium)? Where is the primary home for team communications?<\/span><\/p>

4. When:<\/strong> When are your deadlines? When are you expected to provide updates?<\/span><\/p>

5. Why:<\/strong> Why are you doing this project (i.e. shared purpose)?<\/span><\/p>

& How:<\/strong> How have you agreed to go about working together (i.e. work agreements)? How are you going to get the project done (i.e. processes, tools, technology, resources)?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

These questions aren\u2019t an exhaustive diagnostic, but they\u2019re a great starting place. When you\u2019re detecting team alignment issues, more often than not your team is misaligned on one or more of these Five Ws & How. Misalignment on one can make everything feel out of whack, negatively impacting team performance, collaboration, morale, and trust.<\/span><\/p>

Once you diagnose the source of the misalignment, you\u2019ll have a much better understanding of how to remedy it.<\/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":"

It\u2019s one thing to detect as a team that you have an alignment issue, it\u2019s another to diagnose the source of the misalignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,15,5,14,13,8,3,10,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-communication","category-community","category-empathy","category-facilitation","category-inclusion-and-belonging","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-learning","category-problem-solving","category-trust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Diagnosing-The-Source-Of-Team-Misalignment.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}