Do you consider your team to be high-performing?
Our reader poll today asks: Do you consider your team to be high-performing?
– Absolutely — we’re a very high-performing team: 41.84%
– Kind of — we have moments of high performance: 47.11%
– Not really — we rarely have high-performing moments: 6.05%
– Definitely not — this team needs a lot of improvement: 5%
Be deliberate about high performance. Sometimes you get lucky and find yourself with a high-performing set of superstars on your team. More often than not, that’s not the case. If you want to get your team to be high-performing, you need to take deliberate steps to get them to that level. Things like succession planning, setting a vision, allocating work, and creating development opportunities will go a long way to upping your team’s game but you have to perform these activities rigorously, regularly, and in an intentional manner.
Do you agree with these poll results? Let us know in the comments below!
– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC
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These results were originally a SmartPulse poll in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks feedback from more than 190,000 business leaders. Get smarter on leadership and sign up for the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.
I think the results need to be interpreted with caution. I suspect how people defined ‘high performance’ varies widely and was over-estimated. OR you have a very non-representative readership!
Do I think people WANT to be on a high-performing team? Absolutely! Do I think 42% of your readers actually ARE on a high-performing team? No way!