Alignment Techniques

The team agrees on the goal in the meeting. Then everyone goes back to their desk and executes a slightly different version of it. By quarter-end, the gap is visible to everyone except the people who thought they'd aligned.

Alignment techniques are structured methods — goal cascading, alignment workshops, shared metrics, synchronisation rituals — for building genuine shared understanding, not just surface agreement. You use them to close the gap between what people nod to and what they actually do.