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**Leadership Alignment**
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The ultimate value of stakeholder and leadership alignment is to align key leaders in understanding a) who will be impacted by Cloud Migration/Transformation; b) how they will be impacted; and c) periodically gauge the readiness of the organization; d) how cloud goals enforce and enable our strategic organizational imperatives. Sample activities include stakeholder management/alignment planning, leadership action planning and participation in key stakeholder updates as needed.

### **Guidelines**

Onboard and prepare key stakeholders and leaders early.   Understand who the key leaders are, understand their transformation goals, and conduct a gap analysis to call out any conflicts in leadership objectives to create leadership alignment toward a unified transformation goal. Determine what is needed to effectively lead their teams through the change.

### **Who to involve**

Executive sponsor, Migration Project Leader, Migration Change Leader, Internal Change team liaison and HR.

### **Inputs and Outputs  
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|   **INPUTS**   |   **OUTPUTS**   |
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|   *   Business case      *   Change Acceleration program charter      *   Key stakeholder assessment      *   Leadership interviews        |   *   Stakeholder management/alignment planning      *   Leadership Action Planning      *   Participation in key stakeholder updates as needed      *   Leadership alignment assessment report        |

### **Instructions**

1.  Review Business Case
    
2.  Review Discovery Phase Outputs (MRA & Mobilize)
    
3.  Identify key leaders to interview
    
4.  Prepare leadership assessment questionnaire
    
5.  Conduct leadership alignment assessment interviews or administer leadership alignment survey
    
6.  Analyze interview/survey data and develop leadership assessment feedback report that shows areas of alignment and gaps
    
7.  Share leadership assessment feedback report with overall project sponsor
    
8.  Work with overall project sponsor to determine next steps for closing alignment gaps among leadership team members
    
9.  Share leadership assessment feedback report with full leadership team and provide recommended next steps for building alignment
    
10.  Develop plan for building leadership alignment plan, leadership action – sponsor plan

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