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Patty Beach on The Art of Alignment and Why Teams Agree but Never Follow Through
Patty Beach, founder and CEO of LeadershipSmarts and author of The Art of Alignment, joins Greg Aden to talk about how leaders actually build alignment on a team.
Patty explains why selling, telling, and command and control never produce lasting alignment, and why co-creation is what creates co-ownership. She walks through SHUVA, being seen, heard, understood, valued, and appreciated, and points out that valuing and appreciating are the parts leaders skip. She also lays out her four steps and 5 Cs process, clarifications, compliments, concerns, changes, and commitment, and shows how it turns a fuzzy plan into an agreement people actually own.
Greg and Patty dig into the difference between expectations and agreements, why expectations without agreement are just wishes, and why a plan that never lands on a calendar rarely gets done. Patty also previews the AI supported group decision making tool she is testing with clients, built to document agreements, surface quieter voices, and put humans and AI in the same decision making loop.
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