How to Build a High Performance Team – 2020

Introduction: Leaders strive to form high performance teams. Most leaders are able to visualize what a  high performance team looks like but often struggle to articulate how to build one. The ability to build a high performance team starts with…

Simon Sinek talks about how to measure success. Is it appropriate to set a goal and allow teams to get there any way they can? Should momentum be considered? Simon discusses how organizations are set up to encourage distrustful and…

Do we have the right metrics? John Doerr explains the role of objectives and key results in the process of goal setting and execution. He states that people set goals and often hit them but lack the purpose. He discusses…

What is “teaming”? Most of us identify a team similar to a sports team that is stable with the ability to practice together to be high performing. Amy Edmondson defines a team as a stable, bounded group of individuals interdependent…

Teamwork quality is determined by how team members communicate. Team performance can be improved by developing patterns of communication where each team member communicates often, equally and energetically with the team as a whole, with each individual team member, and…

High performing teams are hard to build and can be even more challenging to sustain. Flexible teams react to crisis better, to be flexible teams need to be informed, resilient leaders tend to be generalist, and conversations build trust. The…