Unexpected Blockers To Global Expansion Series: Misaligned Leadership

There’s a reason our signature and most reputable growth workshop centres around helping leadership define their challenges, skills, and objectives: Because it’s common for the answers to be different from each other. 

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We help leaders avoid this future problem by first identifying these points of difference before uniting them on the fundamental components of successful scaling. Here’s a starting point to make sure your leadership team is on the same page. 

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Is your leadership team misaligned? Let's see...

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If your elevator pitches aren’t the same or at least similar.   

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The pitch is what the company does and who for in a nutshell. You may think the people in your leadership team will have the same one, but can you guarantee it? If the pitches aren’t similar, there’s a lot of work to do before scaling into a new market where you need to trust that your pitch is being recited as you want it to be. 

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If you don’t know your strengths and weaknesses as a leadership team. 

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The beauty of a strong leadership team is the individuals within it come to the table with varying skills and experience, covering all the gaps. If you’re about to embark on global expansion for the first time, you need to ensure you have the relevant scar tissue to make it a success–who is best to solve which problems, what the core skills are and who they belong to. 

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If members of the team feel underutilised, undervalued or confused about responsibilities. 

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This is a prominent sign that a confused org structure is causing missed opportunities. Every member of the team must not only understand their role and responsibilities, but feel like it’s a good fit for them too. 

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If success looks different to everyone. 

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Start with the company’s core goals–can everyone give the same answer here? If not, why not? What are they saying instead? This will give you an insight into communication at the top level, specifically between you, your co-founders (if you have them), and your leadership team. Humans aren’t mindreaders, and being clear and repetitive with the company’s targets and goals means you can trust the entire team to be progressing towards the same things.

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At Think & Grow, we’ve seen firsthand how leadership misalignment can slow down (or completely stall) a company’s global expansion. It’s why we’ve designed our Growth Diagnostic Workshop to tackle a problem as big as this one. 

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The good news? It’s fixable—with the right structure, strategy, and support. Our Growth Diagnostic Workshop covers the pitch, roles & responsibilities, challenges, objectives, and so much including the fundamentals of scaling success to ensure leadership is aligned. 

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Before making your next big move, take our Expansion Readiness Assessment to see if your leadership team is truly prepared for scale.

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