APPENDIX B: HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS

Researchers identified 5 signals evident in High Performing Teams. Our goal is to intentionally embed those signals in our teams every week.

01 Framing

02 Roles

The Leader conceptualizes within the team that this journey is a “learning”, not simply an “add-on”.

It is a journey worth doingIn the end, we will be better off.

The Leader explains and reinforces to the team why their individual and collective skills are vital to the team’s success.

Without you, we don't suceed.It is something reinforced through action; not just saying it a handful of times.

03 Rehearsals

Successful teams do dry runs of their key executables, and they have communication plans

We practice in sports... why not at work?

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'Go-Live' cannot be the first time we try something.

“There is a difference between people in music and sports talent hotbeds and ordinary people everywhere else—talented people have a vastly different relationship with practicing.” -Daniel

Coyle, The Culture Code

04 Encouragement

05 Active Reflection

Team members are coached and feel empowered to speak up (psychologically safe)

After Action Reviews and associated learnings are intentionally incorporated between executables

Active tools are used to foster the surfacing of ideas and the airing of disagreements.

Candid feedback before and after practice.

In the Navy Fighter Weapons School, immediate after-action reviews after every dogfight (Rehearsals combined with Active Reflection) was a fundamental game changer. Their win-loss ratio went from 2.4 to 12.5.