December 4, 2024

The Busienss Alignment Checklist

Is Your Strategy on Track?

You can build plans, hire fast, and launch new campaigns until your team is dizzy. But if your business isn’t aligned—across story, systems, and KPIs—every move is harder than it needs to be.

Un_Standard’s movement knows busy isn’t enough.

Alignment is what makes strategies stick.

Here’s how to check if your business is running on clarity—or chaos.

Can Every Team State Your ICP and Promise—The Same Way?

Let’s play telephone.

Ask your marketing lead, your sales pro, and your head of ops a simple question:

  • “Who do we serve?”
  • “What problem do we solve?”

Are their answers identical? Or does each version drift into a different story?

When your ICP and brand promise vary by department, you’re not building a movement—you’re broadcasting confusion.

Aligned teams don’t just memorize boilerplate—they live, breathe, and sell the same narrative.

Audit it now. Stop in the next all-hands and ask.

If the answers wobble, start fixing upstream—before your next campaign does the same.

 

Do All Teams Share KPIs and a Unified Success Map?

Alignment isn’t “soft.” It’s metrics, measured.

If marketing cares about MQLs, sales obsess over close rates, and ops focuses on delivery speed—do those numbers stack up, or just stack up noise?

The best brands build a universal scorecard:

  • Joint pipeline health reviews
  • Shared dashboards
  • Goals everyone can see (and actually cares about!)

When KPIs push teams apart, department “wins” become company losses.

Check that every top metric is everyone’s problem.

See how shared dashboards accelerate growth with Un_Leash.

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Is Your Workflow Stitched—Or Slapped Together?

Real alignment shows up in the day-to-day, not just on a strategy slide.

Mapping your most critical workflow—from first touch to delivery—shouldn’t require a decoding manual.

Where are campaigns stalling? Where do deals die, projects choke, or messages drift?

If team members can’t walk the work, or if process steps live in siloed documents/Slack threads, you’re duplicating effort and generating friction.

Movement fix: Visualize, then ruthlessly simplify, every key process. If you can’t explain the pathway in fewer than five steps, odds are alignment is bleeding out along the way.

Are There Cadence Rituals That Keep Alignment Alive?

Events don’t create alignment—habits do.

Movements stay together because they check in, recalibrate, and course-correct as fast as things drift. When’s your last executive alignment sprint? How does your team call out stalled projects or drifting KPIs in real time?

If the only realignment is at annual planning, you’re already behind.

Create monthly narrative resets, cross-functional pipeline reviews, and regular kill-the-zombie-project sprints.

Great teams don’t let drift linger. They make clarity a ritual.

Do Leaders Champion Alignment—Or Do They Delegate It Away?

Leadership alignment is easy to talk about, tough to deliver. When founders and execs delegate clarity to “the comms team,” it signals to the org that alignment is optional—just another thing on someone else’s plate.

High-clarity organizations see leaders as the first to recite narrative, own the playbook, and kill off murky missions.

Cultures rally around human leaders—bold, visible, and clear.

Real world test: If your CEO can’t explain the brand’s “why” or a VP shrugs at the ICP, you have structural drift that trickles all the way down.

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How Fast Can You Spot, and Fix, a Misfire?

Speed is a feature of alignment. When something’s off—customer feedback, lagging conversions, breakdown between teams—can you fix it in a week or sooner?

Or do problems stew and turn into multi-quarter crises?

Aligned teams audit weekly, kill pain early, and grind bottlenecks without waiting for permission.

Fixing misalignment becomes a reflex, not a fire drill.

Is Alignment Built for Scale? (Or Is It Temporary?)

Band-aids don’t build businesses. Every alignment “fix” should unlock future-proof habits—playbooks, workflows, and narrative you can hand to new hires, not repeat endlessly.

Clarity at scale means:

  • Systems simple enough to grow with you
  • Rituals so useful everyone does them without reminders
  • A narrative so clear, your customers repeat it back in their own words

 

If You Feel the Drift—Here’s the Cure

Don’t wait for lost quarters, culture rot, or self-inflicted chaos.

  • Take one section of this checklist per week—with every department.
  • Keep a “clarity score” and reward the biggest alignment win and the boldest bottleneck-smasher.
  • When in doubt, bring in movement-driven partners who won’t let you stay stuck.

Ready to move from busy to bold?

At Un_Standard, we build the systems and habits that turn vision into velocity.

Clarity. Alignment. Action.

No more guessing.

Book an Alignment Audit with Un_Standard

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Agent Provocateur & Chief Creative Officer at Un_Standard. David helps ambitious brands unearth clarity, break the rules that hold them back, and co-create movement-level growth. When not challenging the status quo, he’s in the kitchen inventing new flavors or chasing after his three cats: Hallie Tosis, Lester Een, and Jim G. Vitis. #BeUnStandard

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