Define what high-performance is for you.
- What does that mean in your context?
- How do you know how your team is performing on the scale of low to elite performance?
Inspire & Engage Your People with Why
- Why is high-performance important to you?
- Why is it important to each of them?
- A great question to think about is ‘what’s in it for them’
- Leadership & Mindset Hack – Get your team to come up with a Why for the team. It has the additional benefit of creating additional buy-in from them to align with the Why
Walk the Walk & Talk the Talk
- Start with yourself. Ensure you are fully aligned both in how you talk, work and act towards the goal of high-performance.
- Your people are watching and they will notice any misalignment
High-Performance Foundations of Diversity & Psychological Safety
- Amy Edmonson’s & Google’s research on psychological safety demonstrate that it is the #1 factor in high-performance teams.
- Dr. Edmonson’s newer research shows that diverse teams with high psychological safety outperform all other teams. However, diverse teams with low psychological safety underperform non-diverse teams (with both high and low psych safety)
Enter the Continuous Improvement / Growth Mindset Cycle
- With high psych safety, people feel safer sharing innovations, improvement ideas, creativity and problems. This allows your team to enter a continuous improvement cycle where you can experiment & iterate ideas to improve performance.
Measure and Celebrate Successes
- As your team improves towards your goal of high-performance, ensure you’re measuring and celebrating successes.
- As a leader, creating positive momentum and building upon wins is critical to keep your people engaged, growing and innovating.
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