We are interested in one thing.
Creating high-performing teams.
TRM™ is about helping executives create a sustainable high-performing team culture. Everything on this website is provided without charge. We only ask one thing. If this helps you in some way, please share your story and the lessons that helped you. Your success helps everyone else. And everyone else’s success helps you.
The Responsibility Matrix was begun by Bud Schrock. He had always felt that it’s an incredible waste when a team has a valuable and important mission, yet isn’t able to achieve their mission because they simply don’t know how to create a sustainable performance culture. And when teams fail to deliver useful results, it hurts all of us in ways that are big and small.
Many of us have worked for highly-effective teams. And, probably, some that were not. At TRM™️, we believe the difference isn’t in the details. It’s broader and simpler – it’s about creating a solid foundation that defines and supports a long-term, high-performing team.
So that’s our focus. Helping leaders create a simple, practical, complete, and sustainable performance culture.
The result is – The Responsibility Matrix™.
TRM™ provides a clear path for executive leaders to embed the right cultural habits and practices. And for internal auditors to help these executives by focusing their audits around whether or not this performance culture is embedded and functioning. At every level.
We have a point of view, of course.
This is our manifesto. We believe that these concepts are integral to TRM’s unique value.
We believe that:
- High-performing teams perpetuate their success by identifying, teaching, and monitoring the factors that uniquely define their performance culture.
- Simplicity, on its own, is a fundamental strength.
- Short-term achievements matter. But they are only waypoints in pursuit of a larger mission.
- Every member is uniquely important to a team’s success.
- A leader’s big-picture role is to create trust and commitment.
- But, day to day, leaders need to focus their energy on things that are strategically significant and filter out the rest.
You should carefully consider whether this manifesto matches up with your beliefs. If they do, they are a powerful foundation for creating an effective performance culture. And they are integrated throughout the Responsibility Matrix™.
