This is your inside look into the world of high-performing teams. If you’re a leader who is tired of mediocrity and wants to build teams that can consistently deliver outstanding results, you’re in the right place. High-performing teams are more innovative and can adapt to change and uncertainty with greater ease. The individuals within these teams are deeply motivated by your company’s mission and values and work collaboratively towards your shared goals. Under this topic, you’ll find content from leaders at the forefront of some of the highest-performing teams in the world. They offer their strategies, actionable advice, and food for thought to help you replicate their success.

Developing Teams

Whether you’re wondering how to make the most of your hybrid/remote arrangements, want to develop your high potential employees, or you’re keen to build a culture of learning in your organization, you’ll find content on how to enable your teams to thrive. Get advice from leaders in top organizations including Meta, Stripe, Microsoft and JP Morgan on how they rally their teams around a shared vision, communicate expectations, and make decisions that elevate the employee experience.

Hiring

Building high performing teams starts with the hiring process. How do you put in place a hiring process that’s inclusive and effective, while also being human? If you want to break through to candidates, deliver a great experience for candidates interviewing remotely, or make diverse recruiting a meaningful part of the process, you’ll find content here to help.

Firing

You may have done everything right during the hiring process, but sometimes you'll still have to let people go. Telling an employee that they're underperforming or are about to be made redundant never gets easier as a leader. Learn how to approach these difficult conversations with empathy and tact.

Managing Performance

KPIs, OKRs, SMART goals? How do you really build a team that is not only highly engaged and motivated, but also accountable and collaborative? Here, you’ll find content around setting goals, providing feedback, managing conflict and difficult situations, and keeping attrition low. Leaders from top global organizations such as Sephora, Wood Mackenzie and ByteDance reveal lesser-known and highly effective performance management tips to help you build a team that’s both happy and laser focused!

Coach & Mentor Your Team

With the amount of uncertainty on the horizon in recent times, the need for coaching leaders has skyrocketed. Indeed, coaching and mentorship are crucial ways for your teams to grow beyond their self-imposed limits and realize their potential. Here, you’ll find content to help you hone your coaching skills as a manager and drive both high-performance and wellbeing in your teams. You’ll also see content on how to navigate coaching situations that go wrong!

Be a Better Sales Manager

The unique dynamics of a sales team call for content that’s dedicated to this particular function. In a discipline that involves high stakes, competition, pressure and big egos, sales leaders need to be especially intentional about their leadership. So if you’d benefit from advice on how to structure your team, set success metrics, empower your people to perform at their best, or manage competition, you’ve come to the right place.

Featured Thinkfluencers

What sets a good leader apart from an ineffective one? Tune in to these Thinkfluencers who have developed their leadership styles and become firm but fair leaders who strive to inspire, support and lead their teams to success.