Best Practices - Cross Functional Alignment for Strategic Results

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about how cross-functional alignment can help you achieve more impactful strategic results. This is part of our series on how to help leaders accelerate their growth and build empowered teams. Our goal is to share a few of our best practices and how we think about it, in an effort to help you grow your business.

In this episode we will talk about prioritization and how doing less can help you achieve more, the “Come Back meeting “ and want it is, and how simple processes can help you accelerate your speed to market. Overall our key goal is to help you set organizational priorities so that your teams are aiming for company success vs success for each functional area. This will help you avoid silos and the in-fighting that destroys progress.

Show Highlights:

• Highlight (01:35) -Tracy shares why many organizations do not reach their strategic goals.
• Highlight (04:03) - Tracy shares an example about how not having a clear priority and vision food success can lead to team friction. This example will be loved by CTOs/CIOs as it covers launching a new digital product or platform.
• Highlight (06:07) - Why having multiple visions for success can lead to cross-functional team friction and a slower process.
• Highlight (8:24) - The Come Back Meeting - What is it? Why should you have one? And what does it achieve?
• Highlight (12:23) - Why say ‘no’ to smaller items that can distract the team, and how to keep people from working on them.
• HIghlight ( 13:04) Why a sign off process is not micromanaging, but rather the process that will help ensure priorities do not shift every week.

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