Know Your Team

The insight you need to lead High-Performing Teams

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Teams need leadership development and coaching as much as individuals do. No matter how much individuals grow, their impact is limited if the team environment doesn’t evolve with them. Teams are where collaboration, execution, and results happen.

High-performing teams face common challenges

The Top 5

Source: Peter Berry Consulting (publisher of the High Performing Team Assessment)

1. More collaboration: one team approach, no silos, less them and us, all on the same page, working together with one goal.

2. Tackle the difficult issues: more healthy debate, challenge each other, discuss the hard issues, don't avoid conflict.

3. More accountability: challenge each other constructively, correct poor behaviour, stronger KPI reviews, hold people responsible, challenge poor performers.

4. Improve communications: open and honest communications, keep us updated, share the big picture, share information, communicate decisions.

5. Set priorities: be clear on priorities from the beginning, allocate time according to priorities, better manage competing priorities, honest discussions on priorities.

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Investing in teams

While developing individual leaders is important, it’s within teams that real work gets done — and where leadership behaviors are either amplified or stalled. A strong team multiplies individual strengths, navigates challenges faster, and delivers better outcomes. When we invest in the team as a whole — building trust, communication, shared purpose, and leadership at every level — we create a foundation for sustainable performance. It’s not just about making people better; it’s about making them better together.

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Know Your Team

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

Team assessments are structured tools that gather confidential feedback from team members about their experience working together. These insights help leaders understand the emotional 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.