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High Performance Leadership Teams

Worksheet · Success Factor 1

Shared Direction

A reflection and discussion tool to define your team's purpose, dependencies, and shared accountability.

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Part 1

Key Challenges & Priorities

Guiding Questions

What are the core business challenges you face?
What are your top 3 priorities for the coming year?
How do these challenges and priorities shape your team's work?

Why this matters

Shared direction starts with shared understanding of context. Get clear on the external realities before defining how your team responds.

Your Notes

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Part 2

Team Dependencies & Type

Guiding Questions

What are the natural dependencies between your sub-teams?
How do they connect and rely on each other?
What breakdowns could occur if teams don't collaborate?
Which interdependencies feel genuinely energising -- and which feel like a burden?

Team Type -- Select All That Apply

Informational

Share information across silos, ensuring critical knowledge flows between functions.

Consultative

Gather input and perspectives before senior leaders make final decisions.

Coordinating

Actively manage interdependencies and orchestrate workflow between sub-teams.

Decision-Making

Collectively own strategic decisions with equal accountability for outcomes.

Your Notes -- Dependencies and Team Type

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Part 3

Core Responsibilities & Accountabilities

This is about your collective mandate -- what belongs to this team and nothing else. Role clarity between team members is addressed in Worksheet 3.

Guiding Questions

What can only your leadership team own?
Which decisions must you make collectively?
What must you delegate vs. what must you retain?
Who is accountable for what?
How will you measure success on these responsibilities?

Why this matters

If accountabilities feel ambiguous now, they will create friction later. Be specific. Name owners. Define measures.

Your Notes -- Responsibilities and Accountabilities

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Synthesis

Your Team Purpose

Synthesise your reflections into a clear, shared direction. Most important now is clarity -- a strong focus that everyone on your team can articulate and act on.

Who are we as a team? -- Describe your collective identity.

Collective purpose & mandate -- What is your core purpose and what authority do you hold?

Joint accountable outcomes -- What measurable outcomes are you collectively accountable for?

Read your purpose statement aloud. What do you feel -- and what does that tell you?

Tips & Tricks

Elaborate as much as necessary, but be as brief as possible
Find your own words: people should hear your voice while reading it