Doing your best work. And leading others to theirs.
Personal performance is about delivering results, growing into new opportunities, and establishing a trajectory for my career.
Team performance is about leadership, team dynamics, and organizational impact.
Most performance discussions are about one or the other.
TRM doesn't recognize that distinction. Because it isn't real.
The same framework that makes me essential as an individual contributor is the framework that makes me effective as a leader. The same lens that clarifies the responsibilities that I own also clarifies what I need my team members to own. The same standards that elevate my personal performance are the standards I need to create in my team.
TRM is one framework. And it operates at every level.
Learning about TRM starts with reframing your own approach to performance. It’s about understanding how clear, unambiguous responsibilities are the foundation.
Once you’re comfortable with how performance works, it’s natural to expand that into leadership. Leadership isn’t a different approach to performance. It’s just another step in scaling your own performance impact. It still starts with owning a responsibility to deliver a meaningful outcome.
The difference - as a leader I must now rely on others. It’s no longer solely about me being a high performer. I must also elevate those who support me to be high performers. To do that, I need to model and teach how high performance works.
Those are the two phases of learning TRM.
First - become deeply comfortable with how performance works on an individual level.
Second - scale that into the organization as a team leader.
One framework. Two scales. One standard.
Doing your best work. Then leading others to theirs.
There’s another level to this game. TRM is for people who already sense that.