Designed for real teams, doing real work.

We designed The Eight Disciplines of High Performing Teams© as a practical, adaptive system for building and sustaining high performance in teams. Each discipline contains a focused set of tools, practices, and Microskills - supported by development at the self, team, and organizational levels.

Rather than a "one size fits all" solution, The Eight Disciplines© identifies the team's richest growth opportunities through a blend of quantitative and qualitative discovery. We then press on the lead domino that will create the necessary momentum to lead the team towards high performance.

Improvements are simple and practical. They're embedded directly into the flow of work, helping the team shape new mindsets and ways of working all whilst amplifying their existing strengths.

Ambition and Mission

Elevating collective ambition and aligning on shared mission

Ambition creates a purposeful and energising individual and collective pursuit. Mission realises the ambition as an inspiring, specific, achievable, and time bound collective commitment.

Focus on Value

Identifying and prioritizing how value is created and captured for stakeholders

Value anchors the team in customer centricity, and identifies and maps the activities that deliver the greatest impact. Focus drives prioritization for maximum impact and peak performance.

Decisive Execution

Optimizing ways of working as a team to get things done robustly, effectively, and efficiently

Decisive puts in place clear, precise, and efficient decision processes, establishing fast and confident ways to move forward. Execution zooms in to clarify accountability and ownership which accelerates delivery.

Cohesion and Collaboration

Creating a deeply engaging workplace where purposeful collaboration thrives

Cohesion creates a safe space where diverse team members feel connected, cultivate a deep sense of belonging, and work in mutual trust. Collaboration builds effective ways of working within and between teams to maximize impact.

Fast Feedback and Growth

Embedding practices to enable feedback at all levels to drive rapid cycles of improvement

Fast focuses on practices that accelerate the speed at which improvements are made. Feedback is the art and science of asking for, giving, and receiving feedback as part of everyday business. Growth is about the daily practice that compounds small wins into continuous improvement.

Reactive to Creative

Raising individual and collective awareness to become more intentional, focused, and explicit in everything done

Reactive increases collective awareness of habitual patterns, understanding where they help and where they limit the team. Creative explores possibilities, leading to choiceful and intentional action that selects the most productive and impactful responses.

Authoring the System

Understanding the system, expanding sphere of control and influence, optimizing interconnection and impact

System seeks to understand both the complexities of the business and the nuances of the human dynamics surrounding the team. Authoring intentionally and explicitly takes collective action to optimize how the team “fits” and produces value within the broader system.

Sustainable Productivity

Intentionally designing, nurturing, and shaping a healthy workplace that enables constant high performance

Sustainable creates the conditions for long-term excellence through a rhythm that incubates continuous renewal, recharge, and refresh. Productivity harnesses these conditions to deliver meaningful results through healthy, thriving teams.

Fuelled by practicality

Because work fundamentally happens in teams, The Eight Disciplines© meets each team where they are, honors their existing strengths, and helps them make simple, practical, and meaningful adjustments in the flow of their work.

We combine, mix, match, and sequence components to create an impactful approach that is finely tuned to your team’s most pressing needs.

Tools

The simple, tangible things you can pick up and use in the moment to help teams have better conversations, make clearer decisions, and stay focused on what matters.

Practices

The repeatable ways of working a team commits to - rituals and habits - that use those tools in the day-to-day, so better ways of operating stop being a one-off intervention and become “how we do things here”.

Microskills

The capabilities that grow as these practices compound over time: the fine-grained behaviors that, together, add up to the core disciplines of high performance. They show up as small, specific moves team members make that can be learnt, practised, and strengthened over time.

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