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WA7: The Self-Audit (carousel)

Five questions that reveal whether your team is actually aligned or just busy. One: can every person on your team name the single most important thing this quarter? Ask them separately, and if the answers differ, you have a translation gap, not an effort gap. Two: when priorities change, how long until the team actually adjusts? The lag between a decision at the top and execution on the ground is the real cost of weak alignment. Three: are your best people energized or exhausted? Exhaustion in your strongest performers is usually a sign of role misfit rather than a weak work ethic, which means you've put a strong person in a draining seat. Four: do you know how each person is wired, or only what they produce? You can't assign work well to people you only understand by their output. Five: if you stepped away for two weeks, would the team hold the line? If the honest answer is no, the gap you're feeling is alignment, and it's the most fixable problem you have. Sit with the question above that was the hardest to answer, because that's where your leverage is. Which of the five was hardest for you to answer honestly?