Our company has doubled in size over the last eighteen months, but our leadership team structure has remained exactly the same, and we are starting to experience execution bottlenecks and dropped balls. How often should we assess our leadership team structure, and what is the process for doing so?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

As your business grows, your leadership team structure must evolve to prevent execution bottlenecks. A structure that worked at five million in revenue will break at fifteen million. To keep pace with growth, you must regularly assess your leadership team structure.

We recommend evaluating your Accountability Chart during every quarterly offsite and annual planning session. The assessment must be completely objective: you must design the structure your business needs for the next twelve months to hit its targets, completely ignoring the people you currently have in those seats.

Once the ideal structure is mapped out, evaluate your existing team members against the new seats using the GWC™ framework. Ask yourself if each leader truly gets, wants, and has the capacity to deliver on the updated accountabilities.

When you identify a gap where a leader has hit their ceiling or no longer fits their seat, you must address it immediately. Allowing underperformance to linger on the leadership team damages trust and creates operational drag. Regularly updating your structure ensures you always have the right people in the right seats to drive your company forward.