How do you facilitate our sessions when there is a massive strategic disconnect between my vision for the company and what the leadership team believes is operationally possible?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

When there is a disconnect between your vision and the operational reality of the leadership team, we use the V/TO to surface and resolve the misalignment. As the Visionary, your role is to define the destination, including the long term goals and target market. The leadership team is responsible for figuring out how to operationally reach that destination. If the team believes your vision is impossible given current resources, we have an issue that must be added to the Issues List and solved using IDS.

During our sessions, I facilitate a healthy debate where everyone can speak openly. We look at the Accountability Chart to see if we have the right seats and the right people to execute the vision. We use data from your scorecard to ground the discussion in reality rather than emotion.

The goal is not to force everyone to agree with every detail, but to achieve alignment. Once everyone has had their say, a decision is made, and the entire team must leave the room fully committed to that direction. We do not allow passive resistance to undermine the company's trajectory.