Leadership Articles & Resources

What Is a High Performing Team?

A high performing team is a group of people with complementary skills who share a common purpose and consistently exceed expectations through psychological safety, trust, and shared accountability.

High Performing Teams Frameworks: 6 Models Reviewed

The most effective high performing teams frameworks are Hackman's 6 Conditions (explains 80% of team effectiveness), Google's Project Aristotle (identified psychological safety as the #1 factor), and Edmondson's Psychological Safety research (18,921+ citations). Lencioni's 5 Dysfunctions is widely used but lacks peer-reviewed validation.

High Performing Team Training

Most team training focuses on the team. We focus on the leaders who shape it. Based on 500,000+ reflections from 8,000+ emerging leaders.

How to Build a High Performing Team (Evidence-Based Guide)

Building a high performing team takes six things: psychological safety, clear direction, the right structure, supervisor support, spaced development over months, and leaders who model the behaviours they want to see.

7 Characteristics of High Performing Teams

Research on high performing teams is everywhere. But knowing the characteristics isn't the same as building them. This article covers the seven characteristics that research — and 8,000+ leader reflections — consistently point to.

The 12 Challenges Every Emerging Leader Faces (And How to Overcome Them)

You got promoted. Now what? The transition from individual contributor to people leader is one of the hardest career shifts you'll make, and 60% of new managers fail within the first 24 months. This article covers the 12 challenges that research and 8,000+ leader reflections consistently reveal.

The Skills Emerging Leaders Need to Develop

The essential skills for emerging leaders, organised into four categories: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Research-backed guide with practical frameworks.

What Is an Emerging Leader?

A clear definition of emerging leaders, how they differ from high potentials and emergent leaders, and why this transition is one of the most consequential moments in a person's career.

How to Develop Emerging Leaders: A Guide for HR and L&D

Most organisations promote people into leadership, then leave them to figure it out. The result: 60% of new managers fail within 24 months. This guide covers what the research says about developing emerging leaders, why most approaches fail, and what actually works.

Emerging Leader Characteristics: How to Identify Your Future Leaders

How to identify emerging leaders by looking beyond performance. Covers learning agility, observable behaviours that indicate potential, trust-building behaviours, and warning signs of derailment risk.

How to Improve Emotional Intelligence

The question isn’t whether emotional intelligence can be developed. It’s whether your approach actually changes behaviour. What the peer-reviewed research says works—and why most training fails.

Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Technical skills get people hired. Emotional intelligence determines whether they—and their teams—thrive. The business case for EI development, what deficits cost, and how leading organisations are investing.

12 Signs of Low Emotional Intelligence

The manager knows their stuff. They deliver results. But something’s not working. How to spot low emotional intelligence in yourself, your managers, and your organisation—and what to do about it.

Emotional Intelligence Training: 18,000 Leaders' Reflections

Technical experts get promoted, then struggle with people. After 450 programs and 18,000 reflections, we've seen exactly where it breaks down and it's not the content. It's the sequence.

Resilience Training: What 2,430 Leaders Told Us

Psychological Safety Training: A Guide for Australian Organisations

A comprehensive guide to psychological safety training in Australia. Learn what effective training includes, when you need it, and how to evaluate your options.

How to Build Psychological Safety: 7 Steps for Leaders

A practical guide to building psychological safety through 7 proven steps, team activities, and consistent leader behaviours. Learn what actually works to create a safe team environment.

Psychological Safety Examples: Signs, Patterns & Warning Signals

Understand psychological safety through practical examples. Learn to recognise the warning signs, defence mechanisms, and patterns that indicate your team's true level of safety.

Amy Edmondson's Research on Psychological Safety

Amy Edmondson's 25+ years of research established psychological safety as the #1 factor in team effectiveness. Learn about her frameworks and how Google validated her findings.

What Is Psychological Safety?

Psychological safety is a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking. Learn why Google found it was the #1 factor in team effectiveness.

Psychological Safety Training for Leaders

Difficult Conversations Training: What 41,000 Leader Reflections Taught Us

Team Building Training: Why Most Fail & What Actually Works in 2026

Most team building fails within a week. Real team performance comes from developing your leaders as a cohort: building shared language, practicing new behaviours together over months, and applying what they learn with their daily teams.

Leadership Training Brisbane

Leadership training for Brisbane and Queensland teams. Local team on the ground. Trusted by QRL, Culture Kings, QCAA and 15+ Queensland organisations. 88-93% completion rates.

Leadership Training Melbourne

Leadership training for Melbourne teams. Trusted by MYOB, UniSuper, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and 40+ Victorian organisations. Evidence-based programs with 88-93% completion rates.

Leadership Training Perth

Leadership training for Perth and WA teams. Trusted by Water Corporation, Fremantle Ports, and EMRC. Evidence-based programs designed for distributed teams. 88-93% completion rates.

Leadership Training Sydney

Leadership training for Sydney teams. Trusted by Camp Quality, Cerebral Palsy Alliance, CMC Markets, Supagas and 25+ NSW organisations. Evidence-based programs with 88-93% completion rates.

Leadership Training for Managers: What Actually Works

60% of managers receive no formal training before stepping into their role. After working with 1,200+ leaders, we've seen what separates training that sticks from training that's forgotten by Monday.