Stretching your team to excellence the elastic band metaphor for beating burnout
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I'd build a consulting business and basically every team, every senior leadership team that I was sitting down with and having a conversation with about high performance teams or high performance culture, or hitting the numbers, bottom line, performance, whatever you wanna call it, they were all like, oh my God but we're just exhausted. We've been sprinting for years. Probably since COVID, we've been rushing and running and it's more and more and more all the time. And I had this imaginary model in my head or metaphor in my head of an elastic band, and to me the concept of the elastic band is if we think about the elastic band as us, we've got all of these things that are pulling us to be high performers.
They're pulling us in one direction. It's about all the things that you do in a high performing teams program, but we've also got all these other things that are pulling us backwards and people aren't generally aware of those. And what happens if you stretch an elastic band in two different directions, too much?
Well, of course it, you, it snaps. And that was the issue that a lot of these teams are facing. And so I started to look around and thought, well is there a book? Is there a guidebook or is there a recipe that people can follow that helped them to detention the bad stuff and tension up the good stuff?
And there wasn't one. There are lots of, you know, five dysfunctions of a team and high performing teams books, but there was nothing that talked about this kind of elastic band concept and how we could reduce the tension in one area and increase his engine in one area, but making them almost the same variables.
So I had to try and create that. So over the course of the last three years, we did a whole heap of research with various organizations. And about 1300, 1400 employees. We interviewed them, we talked to them, we learned about them and started to glean what these variables might be. And that led to the creation of the book.
Once I'd simplified it into the framework, which turned out to be the PACED framework, that then felt like a natural hopping off point to create this recipe book for creating a high performance culture and beating burnout.