Unlock the Power of high-performing teams

A proven evidence-based approach to transform teams into Top Teams.

Improve productivity, employee engagement, staff retention and collaboration with a single approach.

Enabled by a world-leading assessment, a data-driven model and expert coaching.

Building High Performing Teams (Top Teams) for Execs

Building High Performing Teams (Top Teams) for HR Professionals

Building High Performing Teams (Top Teams) for Leaders

Building High Performing Teams (Top Teams) for Teams

Building High Performing Teams (Top Teams) for Coaches

Building High Performing Teams (Top Teams) for Private Equity

End to end approach

The TopTeams formula

At TopTeams, we are serious about unlocking the power of high performing teams. Our approach is founded in the data and science of high performing teams. And we believe you can have fun and enjoy the process.

Click through on each step to learn more about the formula for team high performance.

Statistically
validated
causal model

Comprehensive
Proven Team
Diagnostic

TopTeams Report
with clear data
-driven actions

Tried & tested
execution toolkit
& expert coaching

Quantifiable,
measurable and
sustained results

REAL BUSINESS IMPACT

Our approach creates tangible benefits

TopTeams is the result of over 7 years of longitudinal research, working with real teams and their data to deliver improved team performance.

As part of our approach we measure the benefits that teams experience over multiple measurement points. This allows teams to work on different drivers over time.

20%

100% of teams improve, with a 20% improvement overall

>50%

Improvement in goal acheivement

12%

Improvement in group effectiveness

20%

Reduction in intentions to leave the organisation

9%

Improvement in employee experience

19%

Growth in inclusion and shared identity

Download an example TopTeams assessment report

Client feedback

don’t just take our word for it

"The improved collaboration has significantly boosted our team's productivity, allowing us to achieve more together."

“There has been a tangible shift around the team as a unit which is the best output we could have hoped for.”

"The process enabled the team to open up to frustrations and share objectives. Maintaining an honest approach allows us to learn from each other."

“Communication and openness improved considerably, constructive challenge increased, resulting in more clarity in decision-making and less moments of being overwhelmed and emotion clouding judgement”

“Monthly cross department meetings foster innovation through shared insights, challenges, customer needs and proactive development work”

"With clearer communication channels, our decision-making process is quicker and more precise than ever before."

“Equality within the team. We weren’t a team of equals, there were cliques and now we are much more equal.”

"Sales, Planning, Procurement, and Customer Service have come together better than ever before with improved communication lines."

just a few of our clients

PROVEN HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS MODEL

Focusing on the right drivers, creates tangible results

When it comes to building high-performing teams, our statistically validated causal model and high-performing teams framework has allowed us to wrangle the significant complexity that is teams into two key areas – Drivers and Results.

Drivers

Drivers are the three high level areas where actions can be taken to improve team performance:

Internal Context: Team performance is fundamentally rooted in the internal context, including clarity about why the team exists, what it must accomplish, who is in the team and the role they each play.
External Context: Team performance is embedded within a broader context, shaped by relationships with stakeholders, the broader organisation and the external environment.
Processes: The engine room of team performance, directly driving team outcomes and indirectly leading to improved team dynamics.

Results

Results are the two high-level areas where teams can see how effective they are at addressing the drivers to create high performance:

Outcomes: High performing teams achieve three essential outcomes; goal achievement, group effectiveness and individual experience.
Dynamics: the aspects of team performance that emerge over time from the interaction of team members. These dynamics describe how it feels being part of the team and include feelings of inclusion, resilience, trust and cohesion

If you’d like to hear more about the framework, hear Katie O’Keeffe, the founder of TopTeams, talk through it top to bottom.

CONFIGURED FOR YOU

Pre-Configured or Custom

TopTeams is not one size fits all. Depending your role within your business, we have a solution that can work for you and allow you to build high-performing teams. We have preconfigured solutions for Execs, HR professionals, team leads, teams, private equity and coaches. Click on learn more below to understand more about our tailored approaches.

We are more than happy to configure a solution that works specifically to meet your needs, including specific coaching and development programs. Get in touch to configure TopTeams to meet your needs

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A different approach

A data driven and proven approach

We created TopTeams to provide leaders and teams with a high degree of confidence that the actions they take will lead to improved team performance. We have heard so many stories of awful ‘team building’ experiences that end up sending teams backwards. We are tired of the ‘zombie’ ideas of team performance that refuse to die, and all the ‘secrets’ to great teams that don’t have any data or evidence and, frankly, are wrong! When we started looking for answers we couldn’t find anything we were confident with, so we decided to do the work needed.

Causal Statistically Validated Model

Teams are complex. There are 5 dimensions, 18 factors, and 32 sub-factors at play. Our one-of-a-kind causal, statistically validated regression model means we know what drives real outcomes. Causation means confidence that interventions work.

Concrete Recommend-ations

All teams get specific data-driven recommendations from our causal model, curated by a TopTeams expert- you don’t need to figure it out yourself. You will also get a targeted toolkit.

Data Driven Assessment

Great coaches have an instinct for what needs to change, and we codified this instinct through our assessment and data so that you have access to this coach’s instinct in your team.

Real World Proven

We have worked with real teams in real organisations and delivered performance improvement so that our clients can be assured of real outcomes. And, these learnings are fed back into our model.

Teams in the context of work

Teams exist to deliver results; they interact with the broader organisation, stakeholders, and environment. Our model is the only one that considers these factors, meaning it works within organisations of all sizes.

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The Why, What, How and Who of TopTeams

TopTeams hasn’t happened overnight and what we’ve learned along the way has been profound. It has changed the way we think about teams and work with our clients.

Why

Popular models and academia didn't meet our standard nor give us the answers our clients needed. So we created our own model called Top Teams.

What

We know that teams are complex and we have established causal relationships for what drive team performance. Such as, performance drives trust, not the other way around.

How

Our leading assessment and coaching processes help execs, HR professionals, leaders, teams and coaches build high-performing teams

Who

We are Katie O'Keeffe and Danny Bearzatto, leaders in creating high performing business and the creators of TopTeams