How to Build a High-Performing Team

Scrum Masters don’t exist to “run ceremonies” — they exist to build high-performing teams and make that performance repeatable. Steve unpacks the mindset, mechanics, and measures that turn a good team into a consistently great one. Using the Formula 1 pit-stop and orchestra/conductor analogies, you’ll learn how to create flow through clarity, cadence, and connection — and how to engineer those conditions in real product and service teams.

What you’ll learn

• How to remove the three performance killers: external constraints, internal constraints, and culture.

• Escalating with evidence, not emotion (simple stakeholder system that gets action).

• Curiosity and root-cause habits to stop repeat failures.

• Practical culture levers for remote/hybrid teams (trust, accountability, psychological safety).

• A metrics toolkit (OKRs, cycle time, lead time, happiness) to prove impact before/after.

Your mission should you choose to accept, is to build a high-performing team in 12 weeks with Steve’s 5-Day High-Performing Team Challenge.

Resources & next steps

• Join the High-Performing Team Challenge and accept the mission: https://www.agilistic.co.uk/high-performing-team-challenge 

• Take the Agile Impact Scorecard: https://impact-pulse-check.scoreapp.com 

• Enhance your Agile IMPACT: https://www.agilistic.co.uk/impact-foundations-course 

• Explore the Agile Mastery Club: https://www.agilistic.co.uk/ama-club