The Secrets To High-Performing Teams

The biggest secret to high-performing teams is just how high-performing they are. A recent meta-analysis combined research conducted on over 200,000 teams in a variety of industries in order to answer that question. Across 274 dimensions of performance and over half a million individual team members, the researchers found that, in most fields, performance differences of teams followed a power-law in almost-with a small number of high-performing teams achieving most of the results. In other others, high performers didn’t just perform a little better, they performed up to ten times better than normal teams.

And the explanations for it hint at more secrets. High-performing teams don’t get these results because they act a little different. They do several key things totally differently. In this article, we’ll outline four secrets that high-performing teams know that normal teams tend to lack.

Work Out Loud

The first secret of high-performing teams is that they work out loud. This means that everyone on the team knows what everyone else is working on, because the team is constantly communicating with each other about the work. Mediocre teams meet every once in a while, divide up assignments, and then work alone while hoping the pieces fit together later. But high-performing teams give constant updates about milestones, project…