Team Profiles and Maps 

‘Team Maps’ are a game changer.
I’ve never seen anything as powerful as this before.
John Gellett – Vistage Chair

Your Team Is a System

Every individual brings a different way of thinking, communicating, deciding and contributing.

Individually, those differences can be difficult to see.

Map them together and patterns emerge.

A Perfect Teams® Team Map gives you an immediate picture of the character and capability within your team.

You can begin to see:

• where the team naturally concentrates;
• where different perspectives strengthen the whole;
• where potential tensions may arise;
• what the team may unconsciously avoid;
• where important capability is missing;
• and where undiscovered capability already exists.

What was invisible becomes visible.

That’s the real value of the map.

What’s Missing in This Team?

Perfect Teams® doesn’t begin by labelling people or identifying who is at fault.

It looks at the team as a whole.

A team may have exceptional people and still lack balance.

It may be strong in ideas but weak in implementation.

Strong in action but weak in reflection.

Strong in process but reluctant to challenge.

Or it may possess capability that simply isn’t being recognised or used.

A Team Map gives the team a common language for having that conversation.

Different Doesn’t Mean Difficult

Two teams can contain equally talented people and behave completely differently.

One may naturally value process, regulation and detail.

Another may favour pace, opportunity and action.

Neither is inherently better.

But put them together without understanding those differences and friction can follow.

Sales and operations.

Front office and back office.

Head office and the front line.

The problem isn’t necessarily the people.

It’s the relationship between the capabilities around the table.

Perfect Teams® makes those differences discussable.

And once they are discussable, they can be managed.

From Difference to Interdependence

Understanding the map is only the beginning.

The purpose is not to create twelve identical people or manufacture a theoretically “perfect” balance.

It’s to help different people understand what each contributes and learn how to work effectively together.

That means moving beyond individual excellence towards collective capability.

Beyond dependence.

Beyond independence.

Towards Interdependence.

The point where people stop merely working alongside each other and start becoming a capable team.

A Framework for Better Conversations

A Team Map creates a neutral focal point around which difficult conversations can take place.

Instead of:

“You’re the problem.”

the conversation becomes:

“What does this team need?”

That shift matters.

It allows teams to explore communication, trust, conflict, leadership, strengths, gaps and contribution without reducing everything to personalities.

With skilled facilitation, the map becomes the starting point for a calmer, clearer and more constructive conversation about how the team actually works.

What Will Your Team Map Show You?

Your Team Map gives you an immediate picture of:

• the character architecture of your team;
• where its natural strengths lie;
• where its focal point sits;
• what it may unconsciously avoid;
• where potential communication flashpoints exist;
• what capability may be underused;
• where important gaps may need to be filled;
• and how individual capability can become collective capability.

See the team you have.

Build the capable team you need.

Explore a Perfect Teams® Team Map