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High Performance and Business Strategy That Optimizes Team Performance, Improves Leadership, and Modernizes Business Growth

Three High Performance Team Exercises That Build Businesses

Employee-related costs are skyrocketing, and the numbers will only increase unless companies can understand and optimize growth. Companies that incorporate high performance and leadership development principles innovate faster and build a more secure foundation for change within an organization.

There are strategies companies can put in place to help reduce those costs and improve retention. This guide will give you three high performance-focused team exercises that build moral, improve communication, boost productivity, and optimize growth.

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“Organizations with highly engaged employees had an average 3-year revenue growth 2.3 times greater than companies whose employees were only engaged at an average level. (UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School)”

Are You Building A High Performance Culture?

Company culture is not just about providing perks. While perks can help create a high-performance culture, they are not the best way to build a strong company.

Simply put, company culture is the set of behaviors that determine how things get done at your company. It is both how and why things get done. It’s about the way leadership communicates and how that communication is received.

When you build a team of high performers, you get increased engagement, productivity and retention. These are the results of a high-performance culture.

Want to know what builds a great company?

High performance principles implemented. This creates a team full of high-performers that love to come to work — a team that is charged with the energy they’ll need to help build any organization.

A company should encourage team members to accomplish their goals. This team feels a great sense of belonging and believes in your company. This creates the biggest impact on sustainable growth. Unfortunately, too many companies continue to rely on rigid management models.

Our founder and CEO, Dr. Mary Mkandawire understands high performance growth. She’s a leadership consultant, C-level executive coach, growth strategist, and optimization expert that has 29 years of experience.

Dr Mary began her professional career as a medical doctor. She has a Master of Public Health, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, MB BS, Bachelor of Science in Medical Science, Bachelor of Science (Honours) Chemistry.

Dr Mary is a certified Leadership Coach, Speaker, Trainer and founding partner of the John Maxwell Team as well as a DISC certified Human Behaviour Specialist and Career Consultant. She has numerous additional certifications including Haggai Institute for Advanced Leadership Studies, DAI Making Human Strength Productive, 

Dr Mary has also learned extensively from success mentors such as Les Brown, Paul Martinelli, Darren Hardy, Brendon Burchard, Tony Robbins and others. 

Organisations we have worked with include

Ernst & Young (EY), World Health Organization, Breakfast Club Africa, John Maxwell Team, Standard Bank Malawi, National Bank of Malawi, NBS Bank, Institute of Bankers (IOB), Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (ICAM), Old Mutual Malawi, Ethanol Company Limited (ETHCO), FDH Bank, EcoBank, University of Malawi College of Medicine (COM), ESCOM, Institute of People Management in Malawi (IPMM), WAN-IFRA Women In News Programme, NICO Holdings PLC, mHub, African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), BEIT CURE International Hospital, Malawi HIV Implementation Research Training Program (M-HIRST), Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW), University of Liverpool Department of Public Health, Insurance Institute of Malawi, Sunbird Tourism Limited, Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM), Employers’ Consultative Association of Malawi (ECAM), Malawi Institute of Engineers (MIE), Malawi Institute of Procurement and Supply (MIPS), Ministry of Health Malawi, WASTE Malawi,  St. John Malawi, Active Youth Initiative for Social Enhancement (AYISE), Sub-Saharan Africa Family Enrichment (SAFE), Love and Joy Ministries Liverpool, Blantyre Malaria Project

I know Dr Mary as a competent and well-respected leadership coach. In just a year's interaction with her as my coach, I was able to gain a lot of valuable knowledge and experience for my leadership journey from her. Combined with her medical background and vast exposure, she makes a perfect public speaker who inspires people to discover their passion and follow it. If you are serious about transforming yourself or your organisation, I recommend her as a perfect executive leadership coach, trainer and public speaker.
Lusubilo Chakaniza
CEO, Ethanol Company
Dr Mary Mkandawire is a seasoned coach, leadership guru who helps individuals raise self-awareness and support building team effectiveness and trust. We worked with Dr Mary in 2019 through a trust building and healing session for the team, and her methods helped the team unravel things that were deep and hidden but were hurting the team and she helped the team walk a path of healing.
Alinane Tembo
Senior Human Capital Business Partner, Standard Bank Group

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