How to Create Alignment Within and Across Teams

Struggling to align your team across departments, time zones, or remote settings? In this episode, Mike Simmons dives deep into the foundations of team alignment and clarity—sharing a practical framework that helps leaders and teams work better together, no matter where they are.

You'll discover how to create alignment through three critical pillars:

Definitions – Establish a shared language by identifying the top 10 terms that matter most to your organization. Keep them simple and easy to remember.

Principles – Align your team with a clear set of guiding principles that drive decisions, especially in complex or high-stakes situations.

Standards – Set expectations for how your team communicates, reports, and holds each other accountable, from Slack to Google Docs to executive meetings.

Mike also shares actionable tips on improving meeting effectiveness using the PPM framework (Purpose, Planning, Medium), so every meeting has a clear outcome and doesn’t waste time or energy.

Whether you're leading a remote team, managing cross-functional collaboration, or preparing for an in-person team retreat, this episode gives you the tools to improve clarity, boost accountability, and reduce the risk of misalignment in your organization.

Key topics:

How to define and align on key business terms

The difference between values and principles

Setting standards for communication and reporting

Structuring effective meetings with purpose

Creating nested KPIs to unify departments

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