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This template compares employee and leadership interview themes to assess alignment across values, communication, priorities, and trust.
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What leaders say and what employees feel don’t always match.
This template makes that visible — and fixable.
Definition: Leader–staff alignment is the degree to which executives’ perception of culture, strategy, and priorities match how employees experience and interpret them — surfaced by comparing qualitative data.
Benefit | Description | Impact |
---|---|---|
Close the Perception Gap | Help leadership see how messages land | Improve internal trust |
Strategic Clarity | Reconnect company direction to employee needs | Boost execution + buy-in |
Feedback-Driven Planning | Ground transformation in lived reality | Enable honest, inclusive leadership |
Early Risk Detection | Catch credibility or morale issues before they escalate | Reduce attrition, increase trust |
Execs + Chiefs of Staff — Understand leadership impact
HR/People Ops — Enable executive feedback loop
DEI/Culture Teams — Reveal equity in communication and alignment
Board + Strategy Leaders — Build people-first execution plans
“This changed how our leadership team showed up. We now build culture initiatives based on what employees actually hear from us — not just what we say.”
— Martyn Rothwell, Sports Performance Researcher