What is a high performing team or culture? There are many definitions and degrees, but one thing is certain: you know it when you see it and you know it when you don’t. A high performance team is exponentially more effective collectively than the sum of its parts. High performance teams are cultivated, they do not naturally occur on their own. Because cultivated at an enterprise level they predictably outperform their peers they can generally demand higher valuations.

High performing teams actively cultivate and reward the following cultural characteristics:

• They foster collaboration, teamwork, openness and respect for its members.
• They have business, people and client problems, but they expeditiously solve them in a fair and consistent manner.
• They rally around a member that has stumbled and provide them with clear constructive feedback, coaching and expected improvement.
• They hold each other accountable for results and how they produce those results.
• They are flexible and can rapidly adapt to problems and take advantage of opportunities as they arise.
• They are admired by their industry peers for their business accomplishments and standing in the industry community.
• They are teams that critically look at themselves and require their leaders and staffs to be better next year than they were this year.
• They are lead by competent people with a history of success and unquestionable behavior.
• They produce greater growth, profit and opportunities for their staff than their industry peers. They have less turnover, lawsuits and other wasted expenses than their industry peers.

Keys to Success

Building and sustaining a high performing team or culture requires leadership and a sustained commitment to break out of old behaviors, habits and ways of doing business while new and more effective ones can be adopted and implemented. It requires individuals to continuously stretch and grow beyond what they thought possible.

As your partner we collaborate with you in designing, implementing and refining the process each step of the way. Odyssey’s experienced professionals bring an integrated suite of coaching, workshops, business planning and assessments processes and tools to achieve your objectives.