Vol 07 · The High Performance Team

The High Performance Team – Fillable Workbook (Vol 07, A Culture of Kindness Leadership Library)

A practical, fillable workbook for team leaders who want results and a great place to work: clarity, safety, trust, honest debate and belonging.

Kind teams are high-performing teams.

Building teams that thrive through trust and shared purpose

The research is consistent: the teams that do their best work are not the ones with the most talent or the most pressure. They are the ones that are clear, safe, trusting, honest and connected.

Built around Nahla Summers' KQ² – The Human Equation and her MSc research into workplace culture, this workbook gives team leaders practical tools to build a team that delivers exceptional results and stays a great place to work.

Inside you'll find

50+ practical tools across 8 sections, including:

•     The Kind Team model, with a starting assessment and a team health dashboard

•     Tools for clarity, psychological safety, trust and accountability

•     Debate norms, the RESOLVE framework and the pre-mortem

•     One-to-one guides, team workshops and meeting tools

•     A 30 / 60 / 90-day plan and a quarterly team review

The 8 sections

1.     What High Performance Really Means

2.     Clarity and Shared Purpose

3.     Psychological Safety

4.     Trust and Accountability

5.     Conflict as a Performance Asset

6.     Developing Your People

7.     Communication and Belonging

8.     Sustaining High Performance

Who it's for

•     Team leaders and managers of any size of team

•     Leaders taking on a new team or resetting an existing one

•     Senior leaders building a stronger leadership team

•     Coaches, HR and L&D professionals running team development

What you get

•     A 96-page A4 PDF workbook by Nahla Summers, creator of KQ² – The Human Equation

•     Fully fillable: type your answers straight into the page, click to score the self-assessments and save as you go

•     Print-friendly too, if you prefer to write by hand

•     Works best in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader on computer, tablet or phone

Using it with your team

This licence is for one person. You may copy the fill-in templates for use with your own team. For use across a department or organisation, multi-user and facilitator licences are available: get in touch via acultureofkindness.co.uk.

Part of the A Culture of Kindness Leadership Library, an eight-volume series of practical workbooks for leading and living with kindness, courage and honesty. This is Vol 07.