High Performance Contexts:
High Performance Consulting is about establishing a high performance context where exquisite performances become a matter of fact. This is very different from thinking about performance in terms of knowledge, skills, experience or even resources. It’s not that those things aren’t important … they all are … instead it’s about understanding the affect of context on performance as the primary driver.
A high performance context is organized with the expectation of positive outcomes from the very start of any strategy developed, plans made or action taken. Simply put, performance is driven by expectation. Then the strategy, plans and actions must be aligned with the expectations held to create the context where high performance becomes possible.
Leadership Attitude, Mood & Demeanor In High Performance Contexts:
The most significant thing in establishing high performance contexts is often the attitude, mood or demeanor of the leader. Humans are by nature social beings and seek to form groups or teams within which to take collective action. The leaders defines the attitude or mood of the group or team, even overriding the demeanor of the individuals that comprise the group or team.
When it comes to self leadership the same thing holds true as well … i.e.: the most important thing driving performance is expectation, and expectation will often set the attitude, mood or demeanor that you have when you take action (or fail to act).
Building The High Performance Context … Communication & Rules:
We work with clients internationally helping them to define the outcomes and results they intend from a high performance context point of view. We then establish together the structure and systems that will support the creation of high performance outcomes and results. So rather than focusing on the performance of any given individual or even a group or team of individuals we put our attention on creating contexts in which high performance outcomes naturally arise.
The primary resources that determine whether such a context is established and sustains are those of communication and common rules and rituals. In a high performance context communication flows freely and moves with a more equal pattern throughout the group or team than when it is held too tightly in check by the leader or one or two particularly strong group or team members. The more the individuals that comprise the group or team contribute freely and equally in the development and distribution of information and communication of that information the more likely it will be that a high performance context will emerge.
Our main function as High Performance Consultants is to monitor and manage the group’s or team’s communication with one another and to subtlety train them to equalize and balance the contributions of the group or team members. When we achieve this outcome, the high performance context takes over and becomes self sustaining … even allowing the group or team to incorporate new members over time.
