High Performance Teams
Strategic Team Assessment Research (STAR) is an innovative tool used in the construction, architecture, and
engineering industries for more than ten years and introduced on a wider scale in 2010. Kelly Tyler works with MORF
Consulting to expand the availability of the STAR tool.

If you are a company leader who manages teams, whether they are leadership teams or project teams, the first step
is to understand your teams’ behavior as it relates to the five characteristics of high performing teams, as shown in the
model.

The STAR assessment uses network analysis to reveal the following:
  • Who’s talking to whom
  • Who is not talking with whom & why
  • Who’s trusted, who is not & why
  • Who relies on each other
  • Who exchanges knowledge & innovates together
  • Who does not exchange knowledge or innovate together
  • Who energizes the team
  • Who depletes energy among the team

Your gut might tell you that your teams, and company results, are impacted by…
  • Disengagement – people on the periphery
  • Organizational bottle necks
  • Over- and under- reliance on certain individuals
  • Inefficient communication patterns
  • Trust issues
  • Inter-office knowledge exchange
  • Silos, cliques and factions

The STAR Assessment puts facts in place of intuition, so you can make decisions about teams.

If you need to structure teams and their objectives, budgets, and schedules, the STAR tool provide the facts upon
which to base your decisions. STAR also has a predictive ability, which can help your teams avoid issues which slow
progress, cost money, and damage internal and external relationships.

The best thing about STAR? It helps you leverage an asset which already exists within your company—an invisible but
impactful asset.
You can leverage existing relationships, trust, communication patterns, reliance, knowledge
exchange, and energy for strategic advantage. You can give your teams the ability to collaborate and innovate, so
your company can move forward, grow revenue, attract the best talent, and thrive.

    If your company lives and dies by its teams’ performance, if you have exhausted commonly known improvement
    methods, if relying on intuition is too risky and expensive, and if you’re fed up with outdated tools and obsolete
    assessments, rely on cutting-edge network analysis and HPTM to build your teams’ performance of the five
    characteristics of the high performing teams.

STAR can help your organization if...
  • work flow bottlenecks cost time and money
  • micromanaging of teammates and peers wastes time, frustrates external clients, and jeopardizes future projects
  • meetings, repetitive meetings, CYA emails, and red tape created by miscommunication are morale depleters
    and productivity reducers
  • innovation is reactive rather than proactive--or non-existent
  • anticipating obstacles would save your company time and money

If your company performance relies on billable time, project deadlines, and team performance, STAR can take the
guesswork out of team and organizational development
No guesswork means getting to solutions faster so you can
increase innovation, boost profitability, predict problems, and reduce costly errors and time-wasters.

Contact Kelly to arrange a STAR consultation as soon as you want the truth about what's happening inside your
organization. The sooner you know the facts, the sooner you can propel your internal teams forward.
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Be forewarned: it is not for the faint of heart. You will find out real information that is affecting innovation and
collaboration. It is not a touchy-feely tool. You will be armed with information that can help you structure your teams
and organization, allocate financial resources, plan workloads and schedules, and anticipate obstacles. If you need
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