Performance Climate

Great leaders shape environments, not just individuals.

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Have you ever noticed that individual teams within the same organization can have a different feel, atmosphere and output?

We call that ‘team climate’ – and measuring team climate is what makes the PCS model unique. 

Team climate is directly impacted by the team leader – and has a significant impact on team productivity and wellbeing.

Why Team Climate Matters

You’ve invested in psychometrics like Six Seconds, DiSC, Hogan, or MBTI — and rightly so. These tools are powerful for personal insight, relationship-building, and self-awareness. But when performance stalls, motivation dips, or collaboration breaks down, the issue often isn’t the individual — it’s the climate.

PCS doesn’t ask who your people are.
It asks: What is it like to work on this team right now?

That simple shift changes everything.

Performance Climate Systems (PCS) is a breakthrough team diagnostic designed to help you shift from individual insight to collective impact.

PCS has been used in more than 20 countries by organizations serious about performance improvement.

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Discover Your Team Climate

Before you set out to improve team performance, you must first understand the underlying dynamics that drive—or drag—performance.

PCS is a structured tool that gathers confidential feedback from team members about their experience working together. These insights help leaders understand the current climate and group dynamics that influence performance—things that often go unspoken but drive outcomes every day.

Here’s how it works:

  1. We Survey the Team
    Each team member completes a short, confidential survey measuring key dimensions of team performance.

  2. We Analyze the Data
    Responses are aggregated and analyzed to identify strengths, tensions, and patterns across the team. We pay special attention to alignment and disconnects between how individuals perceive the team's environment.

  3. We Debrief with the Leader
    We walk through the findings with the team leader, helping them see how their leadership behaviors may be shaping the climate—for better or worse—and identify where self-awareness can unlock team performance.

  4. We Facilitate a Team Discussion (Optional)
    In many cases, we host a session with the team to reflect on the results, build shared understanding, and co-create ways to improve collaboration and effectiveness.

  5. We Create a Development Focus Plan
    Based on the data, we help the leader (and optionally, the team) choose 1–2 core areas to focus on and track improvements over time.

Ready to Activate Performance?

If you’re seeing signs of a stalled team — low energy, finger-pointing, vague priorities — it’s time to stop guessing and start mapping.

Explore how Performance Climate Systems can reignite performance and accountability across your team.