The foundation for High Performing Systems consulting practice was developed by Dr. Thompson during years of organization effectiveness consulting and training for senior military officers and their commands with both the United States military and its allies. Dr. Thompson, a combat veteran, was recognized as a subject matter expert in leadership, building and assessing high performing battle staffs and teams, and stress on the high intensity battlefield. Dr. Thompson transferred his experience and techniques from the battlefield to the boardroom. He is internationally known for creating cutting-edge human technology for building high performance. Dr. Thompson has built his own high performing team of consultants, analysts and world-renowned colleagues who help organizations transition into the high performance zone.

Our consulting practice is not based on a single industry, but integrates findings from across industries into the most powerful organizational enhancing techniques available. HPS focuses on providing leadership solutions for the 21st Century in three basic practice areas: leadership, teams and organizational effectiveness.

The leadership practice area provides leadership solutions across many problem spaces. Our focus is on the solution spaces that will have the greatest impact on organizational performance.

HPS was the first to:

Propose a Four-Level Model of Leadership

Define the 24 Competencies of Leadership

Create the most accurate scientific Leadership Potential Equation™

Create the most accurate assessment of cognitive ability as it relates to leadership

Create definitions of leadership and a Four-Level tiered, integrated leadership training process (High Performance Leadership-I-IV™)

• Leadership Potential Equation™
• Leader Selection Models
• Hiring and Screening Leaders
• Developing Leaders
• CEO/Executive Transitions
• Assessing for Promotion
• Talent Pools and Succession Plans
• Leader and Employee Retention
• Coaching

High Performance Leadership

HPS believes that organizations cannot survive without effective leadership. Our consulting, training and assessment services are designed to move your leaders into the High Performance Zone. We still adhere to one of Dr. Thompson’s original tenants:

“Leadership is the fabric that holds organizations together.”

The foundation for the High Performance Leadership System was developed during the late 70’s and early 80’s as part of a massive leadership study designed to transition NATO nations from a linear war fighting doctrine to the nonlinear battlefield of the 21st Century. Dr. Thompson was part of the team of leadership experts examining the essentials of leadership and high performing battle staffs. From his work on this project he was able to formulate a Five-Level Organizational Model™. This model proposed that organizations are stratified based on work complexity and time horizons.

Other companies are beginning to talk about Leadership

Levels, but the concept began here as an integrated system in 1984.

During the time since his original formulation, Dr. Thompson has continued to refine and develop the High Performance Organization Model™, the High Performance Leadership Model™, Tiered Leadership Competencies™ and the 3-D Team Model™.

High Performing Systems created the first, and still the only, Four-Level tiered, integrated leader development process.

The team practice area focuses on specific methods to enhance team performance. Our expertise in Teams is unsurpassed. HPS continues to be on the leading edge of team dynamics, incorporating such concepts as FIRO theory, The Human Element, Team Emotional Intelligence, the Team Compatibility Model, Type Atmosphere Compatibility, quantum mechanics, dynamical systems, the 3-D Team Model, the 16 Team Principles and many other scientific and psychological approaches to team development.

• Designing
• Teambuilding/Development
• Creating High Performance
• Coaching
• Assessing
• Process Improvement/Lean Transition

Talent is one key—Teamwork is the other.

HPS has combined the basic tenets of group and systems dynamics, high performance, personality and more to create a High Performing Team Model unlike any other. Core team skills are developed over time. As teams advance to higher levels of performance, these core skills must be refined and additional high performing team skills added.

Definition of a Team

A Team is an interdependent grouping of individuals organized around a process, each performing a critical function required for process success.

— from Why Teams Don’t Work: Newton Was Not a Team Player

HPS Team Philosophy/Approach

High Performing Systems takes a systems approach to teams and team development. Systems (and teams) depend on how their components interact more than on how they behave independently. This interaction that takes place among team members—team dynamics—ultimately determines whether the team moves forward or stalls.

Key Factors

To be successful working with teams requires an in-depth understanding of these three key factors:

1. Teams are made up of people working together to perform a process.

2. The team concept must be integrated throughout the organization.

3. Team success depends on understanding and applying the basic Team Principles.

We have extensive experience working in all phases of team design and development, including Implementing Teams, Designing Successful Teams, Team Leadership and High Performing Teams.

This practice area focuses on proven techniques to move organizations into the high-performance zone. HPS is a leader in helping organizations move from good to great. Using a systems approach, we target the specific leverage points in your organization that will improve overall performance.

• Organizational Design
• Organizational Assessment
• Strategic Planning
• Organizational Change
• Systems Thinking
• Culture Assessment and Integration

The following provides information about HPS workshops and seminars that can be presented as in-house or public sessions. Call 706-769-5836 for information on scheduling in-house sessions or visit the links below.

These are, without a doubt, the most powerful personality based training programs available. They are all state-of-the-art, multimedia training sessions loaded with practical exercises and applications. You learn by doing. An extensive participant notebook and other materials are provided. If you want to learn how to apply MBTI and/or FIRO in the areas of leadership, teams, communication, conflict and the New Sciences, then these training sessions are for you.

ARSENAL™ Online Certification Workshop

Online Certification Summary: This engaging online forum will teach attendees how to administer the ARSENAL™ Individual Assessment and to provide feedback to clients for the purpose of helping them to take control of individual or organizational stress and to create development plans to build stress resilience capacity. Click here or main Certification link above for more information.

The CommunicationWheel® Certification Workshop

The CommunicationWheel® represents a major breakthrough in communication using psychological type. In use for two decades and backed by validated research and field testing, this powerful system gives you a competitive advantage with clients. Not only is this an easier way to explain how type affects communication, but you can help them identify communication problems before they become costly mistakes. You will also be able to provide an immediate profile of a group or team to help them understand why communication problems exist and what to do about them.

EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360

The EQ-i 2.0 Certification Workshop* prepares you to administer and interpret the EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 assessments, provide feedback on the results and teach a one-day EI class.

High Performance Leadership-Essentials™

Doing more with less requires leaders--more than ever before--to make timely decisions, eliminate waste and inefficiency, anticipate the unexpected and inspire maximum performance from employees. This practical, hands-on course is designed to give the right combination of skills, tools and techniques to achieve high performance.

The course is 3-days in length and includes a 360 degree assessment, mind mapping, the LEAD™ model, MBTI ®, 3-D TEAM™ model and numerous experiential exercises to help leaders become proficient with the new skills. It is absolutely THE best supervisory/management course available!

Decision Making Under Stress™

When emergencies occur, all employees need to be equipped with tools and training for effective Decision Making Under Stress (DMUS) in order to achieve the best possible outcome, every time. In addition, leaders need focused training on how to build more stress-resilient teams, departments and organizations as a whole.

Element B™ Certification Workshop

The Element B Certification Course prepares you to administer and interpret the Element B assessment, provide feedback on the results and use Element B in a variety of applications such as leader development and coaching, teambuilding, leader selection and much more.

MSCEIT™ Certification

An ability-based test of emotional intelligence. It is not a self report of how you perceive yourself or want to be perceived by others. It tests your actual EI ability.

ABLE® Certification

The ABLE Online Certification Workshop will prepare you to administer and interpret the ABLE family of assessments and provide feedback on the results, allowing you to set benchmarks for training and development initiatives, as well as for executive coaching. 

Pearman™ Personality Integrator

The Pearman Personality Integrator (Pearman) looks at behaviors that are most natural (comfortable) and those that are required or demonstrated in a person's every day environment. Explore the differences, the similarities and a person's flexibility to operate outside of his or her comfort zone.

The Human Element ®

The Schutz Company’s Human Element training provides an integrated approach to the human issues in your organization. Its key purpose is to enable individuals and teams to identify and remedy the underlying causes of behavior that blocks successful performance and change.