Methods & Insights
Success Analysis & High Performance Pattern – find the pattern in what already works
Success Analysis is a structured method for examining situations in which a person or a team actually performed particularly well. The outcome of the analysis is a High Performance Pattern (HPP): the recurring pattern of action and behaviour that characterises you when you succeed.
What is Success Analysis?
The starting point is not: "What do I think I am good at?"
It is: "What did I actually do when I succeeded at something genuinely difficult?"
Success Analysis starts from concrete, demonstrated behaviour and actual results – not from assumptions about one's own strengths. The analysis explores:
- the challenge and the situation you were in
- what you actually did
- what result was achieved
- which patterns of action and behaviour can be identified
- which patterns recur across several strong performances
The method and the outcome
The method
SUCCESS ANALYSIS
The structured process in which specific successes are examined step by step.
The outcome
HIGH PERFORMANCE PATTERN (HPP)
The pattern of action and behaviour that the analysis identifies – your personal pattern when you are performing at your best.
A High Performance Pattern is not a personality profile, nor an abstract list of strengths. It is grounded in demonstrated behaviour and in actions that have actually led to success.
From actual success to High Performance Pattern
Why it matters
The purpose is to make successful behaviour conscious and usable. Once you understand the patterns that characterise you when you are at your best, the resources behind them can be mobilised and activated more deliberately in future demanding situations.
From identification to activation
1. IDENTIFY
Understand the pattern and the resources behind demonstrated success.
2. MOBILISE
Access the mental state, energy and behaviour that characterise you at your best.
3. ACTIVATE
Bring those resources consciously into play when a new situation demands it.
Individual and team
Individual level
Specific successes can reveal an individual's recurring High Performance Pattern.
Team level
A team can analyse situations in which it has already performed particularly well. That existing successful team behaviour can then provide input to the team's Shared High Team Standards (SHTS).
- SHTS = the standards
- A standard describes the behaviour the team consciously expects of one another.
- HPP = the pattern
- A pattern describes the behaviour that is actually demonstrated and repeated.
SHTS and the High Performance Pattern are not the same thing. Success Analysis can help identify existing successful behaviour, which can inform or raise the team's standards.
How it relates to Inner Readiness
Inner Readiness is the broader capacity to consciously mobilise your resources when the situation demands it. Success Analysis is a method for identifying what has actually worked. The High Performance Pattern is the pattern identified through that process – which can then be mobilised and activated deliberately when it matters.
Knowing your pattern is not enough on its own. The desired behaviour must be practised and reinforced, which we work on through 3H – Head, Hands and Heart.
Success Analysis is part of our work in leadership development, team development and High Performance Teams.
Would you like to find the pattern in what already works?
Cronquist Consult uses Success Analysis and the High Performance Pattern in leadership development, team development and work on Inner Readiness.
Talk to Mads Cronquist