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5 Signs Your Team is Out of Alignment: A Mid-Year Reset Guide for Leaders

It’s June. The vision you sold your team in January is dead. Nobody has said it out loud — including you. And that silence is exactly where team alignment goes to die.

In this episode of the Small Brave Moves Podcast, keynote speaker and leadership expert Nicole Bianchi explains that misalignment doesn’t announce itself — it shows up quietly in meetings that cover the same ground, tension nobody’s naming, and a vision that’s somehow become someone else’s job to worry about.

Nicole guides leaders through exactly how to apply the How We Work conversation — the first of her Five Tough Talks®  — as a deliberate mid-year reset for teams that have been grinding since January with nothing to show for the effort but tension and drift.

With just three questions and 90 minutes, teams walk away from this powerful conversation with the kind of clarity, commitment, and reset that no offsite or strategy deck has ever delivered.

You’ll leave this episode knowing how to:

  1. Spot the five signals that tell you your team has drifted before it shows up in your results
  2. Apply the same mid-year reset conversation Nicole is actively using inside senior leadership teams — and why one CEO said it transformed his team in two weeks
  3. Take one immediate step this week to stop the drift before it compounds any further

You don’t need January energy or an offsite to have this conversation. You just need the courage to start it.

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