Most leaders assume their teams are on the same page. But are they really?
Reality Check. Research shows that only 50% of employees clearly understand their company’s strategy and expectations. That means HALF your team is unclear, disengaged, or making assumptions.
Leadership isn’t just about making decisions—it’s about ensuring everyone understands those decisions. If your team is struggling with misalignment, the problem isn’t them; it’s YOU.
The Cost of Leadership Misalignment
- Financial Impact: Teams that lack clarity waste at least 20% of their time on redundant or unnecessary work.
- Engagement Crisis: Employees who don’t understand leadership direction are 2x more likely to disengage and underperform.
- Retention Risk: Confused teams lead to higher turnover rates and a loss of top talent.
When leaders assume clarity instead of checking for understanding, they create frustration, inefficiency, and disengagement. 5 Voices eliminates this problem by providing a common leadership language that drives alignment.
How 5 Voices Fixes Misalignment
- Nurturers – Struggle with pushing back on leadership decisions.
Solution: Ensure their voices are heard in strategy discussions. - Creatives – Have visionary ideas that often get lost.
Solution: Give them a structured process to communicate ideas clearly. - Guardians – Get stuck in “what’s worked before.”
Solution: Help them balance tradition with innovation. - Connectors – Focus on relationships but sometimes miss details.
Solution: Ensure they have a system for following through. - Pioneers – Move fast and assume everyone is on board.
Solution: Slow down and verify team understanding.
When leaders understand their own voice and how their team processes information, they move from confusion to clarity, from friction to alignment.
3 Steps to Close the Leadership Clarity Gap:
- Define Your Leadership Voice. If you don’t know how your leadership is landing, you can’t fix what’s broken. Take the 5 Voices Assessment.
- Check for Understanding. Just because you said it doesn’t mean they heard it. Create space for feedback and validation.
- Use 5 Voices to Build Team Alignment. When every team member speaks the same leadership language, misalignment disappears.
