So, what makes a good team? 

 

Is it a team culture? Or team performance? Maybe it’s the way they communicate? I think the term 'good' is subjective because 'good' can mean many things to many people, so my question is....

 

So, what makes a high-performance team? 

This is also subjective but easier to quantify when tested against your environment. How you define the qualities and attributes of a high-performance team directly correlates to the sector or the environment you work in. 

 

It is also very much driven by your personal attributes as a leader, your personality type, your behavioural profile and a bunch of other stuff.

 

Team performance does not come from the tools we use. Sure, the better the hammer, the faster the nail goes in, but the skill is in hitting the nail well.

 

This is the purpose of this site, to talk about how hit the nail, not the best hammer to use.  

 

I am Bryan Moore and I have been involved in building businesses and high performance teams for over 40 years. The stories I tell reflect the many challenges, wins, losses and learnings over my professional career. This is not a generic 'how to' guide, these are authentic real life business problems that I have tackled over my time in business

 

 

 

So, who am I? 

 

To understand my pathway into business, you need to understand where I came from. I am a 60's child, born to Gary and Lesley in Masterton, New Zealand. 

 

You might describe our family as a typical 'blue collar' family, Mum was a stay-at-home mum, my father worked essentially low skilled labouring jobs. He had 7 mouths to feed with myself and my four siblings coming along in reasonably quick succession. That many children were fairly standard at the time. At the time economically it was possible to support a family of that size on a modest income. Haven't times changed! 

 

Academically I didn't do well. That was more to do with a disfunction home life than a lack of ability. I left school the day after I turned 15 and went to work the next day.

 

The next 40 years were a progression from working in warehouses, to mid-management positions , to executive positions in large multinational retailers. I have enjoyed several executive leadership positions delivering many success projects and recovering numerous failing projects. 

 

My education was on the job, navigating through business issues, experiencing the highs and lows, the wins and losses, but most importantly benefiting and building from the wealth of knowledge and experience. Every experience, both good and bad provided vital knowledge to take forward to the next challenge.  

 

Central to my success is the ability to unpick business structures and put them back together in a more efficient way, and my ability to understand what motivates people individually and collectively to drive towards a single goal.

 

My stories provide an authentic, unfiltered account of the challenges I have tackled over a career spanning 40+ years. They are not 'how to guides' or implied best practice, they are simply my view of what has worked for me and might work for others. I urge you to consider what I say critically and understand if it applies to your situation, after all, it is your decision to take any actions because of reading my stories. 

 

The people I am hoping to help by my stories are those building businesses that are in the early stages of their evolution. If you get the foundation right early, success will follow.