Building High Performing Teams

Our multi-year study confirmed that there are three major factors that all teams must pay attention to and consistently address if they intend to become a high performing team.

1. Leadership – We discovered that the best teams have leaders who can provide constructive feedback and coaching support when members need help or act in ways that are unacceptable. In addition, top teams have leaders who can build and manage relationships with the team’s key stakeholders, particularly senior leaders. Most importantly, we learned that leaders of top performing teams act decisively and provide very clear direction when their team gets off track or when the team must address emerging issues or challenges in a timely and decisive manner.
2. What We Do – Beyond strong leadership, we also learned that the best teams ensure that What they do as a team – their strategies, goals and objectives, their roles and responsibilities, and their team processes and procedures are all very clear and continuously updated and aligned.
3. How We Work Together – Finally, we learned that teams that aspire to be great need to pay careful attention to their team’s culture or How they work together; How members treat one another; How members operate, learn and improve as a team:, and, How the team engages with, and manages its key stakeholders.

Our team diagnostics, tools and consulting services are all rooted in these insights and these three Big drivers of high team performance.