Trailhead Thoughts
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
- Henry Ford
Trail Map - Learn. Think. Act. ™
Alignment Across Teams - Even Remote Ones
📚Learn
Alignment isn’t magic. It’s intentional. Whether your teams are remote, cross-functional, or barely meet in person - alignment comes down to 3 simple pillars:
Definitions- Shared language. Clear terms. No guessing (start with a top 10 glossary.)
Principles - A teams’s “rules of the road” for decision-making and behavior.
Standards - Clear expectations for communication, reporting, and meetings.
Without these you get confusion, duplicated effort, and decisions made in the dark.
🤔Think
Ask yourself:
What are the 10 most-used words or metrics in our team? Are they defined?
Do we have principles that guide daily decisions? Or are we just hoping everyone “gets it?”
What are our communication and reporting standards?
Are these written somewhere everyone can see?
💪 Act
Start here:
Create a 1-pager with top 10 key terms for your org or team. Make it index-card simple.
Write down 3 to 5 guiding principles that help your team choose “how” to act. (Example: “Don’t make assumptions.”
Set meeting standards: what’s the purpose, plan, and proper medium (email, Slack, meeting?) use the PPM framework in the video (planning, purpose, medium.)
Bonus: Review how your KPIs connect across teams. Misaligned metrics = misaligned work.
