What does an elite High-Performance Department look like in sport? If I am a President, GM, Sporting Director, Technical Director, Team Operations Manager or High-Performance Director, how can I predict whether “my high performance group” can deliver?
Qualities of Elite High Performance Teams
To understand whether your team has the qualities to achieve elite high-performance on a consistent basis, I would ask myself the following questions:
Do we have organizational alignment?
- Does the team have an understanding of the organizations vision, mission and values?
- Does the team have a structure that reflects how they can impact the goals of the organization both on the business and the competition sides?
Does our team have unity and direction?
- Does our team possess an identity?
- Does the team have trust?
- Does each team member feel as though they belong?
- Does the team feel they have a future?
Does our group have diversity in skill sets?
- Does each practitioner bring something unique to the team?
- Do their backgrounds provide a different perspective because of where they have been?
Do we employ a purposeful process?
- Is there a method?
- Are there clear roles and responsibilities?
- Is everyone on the same page?
Are we capturing and leveraging impactful data?
- Is the data relevant and reliable (high data hygiene)?
- Is that data connected?
- Does that data drive decisions?
Is the team achieving precision in application?
- Does the team deliver?
- When they coach, do people listen?
- When they coach, do you feel their energy?
- Do their interactions with players produce behavioral change?
- Do they hit home runs when it is their turn at bat?
Consistent Success = “Yes” Answers Across the Board
When answer to these questions is yes, high-performance teams will have a consistent positive impact on the success of an organization.
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