#11: Maximizing Team Performance

Do you know only 58% of teams maximize their full capacity? In order to create create healthy, high performing teams, we need to measure and equip our people around 5 key metrics: Communication, Relationship, Alignment, Execution, and Capacity. These metrics represent the skills needed to maximize the performance, health, and potential of the team. When each component is healthy and functioning properly, it creates a “flywheel” of momentum and healthy growth. All healthy performance and culture begins with a foundation of effective Communication first, followed by strong working Relationships. These two elements are essential. They help us avoid the unnecessary conflicts and drama that will undermine the rest of the skills outlined in this tool, and they set us up to maximize our investments in Alignment, Execution, and Capacity. Too many people make the mistake of only focusing on these latter three elements. If we do that, we may get compliance, but ultimately it will start to erode all five of these skills. We won't get the engagement required to reach our highest levels of performance, culture, and resilience. The maximizing team performance tool is so powerful because it gives us a simple, visual framework to understand the key elements of team performance and culture. Boiling a complex concept down to a single model, this tool equips us with a common language and diagnostic to assess, communicate, and improve team performance in a simple but powerful way.