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Making Sense Together · Feb 2, 2026

Take a fresh look at team productivity with these Performance Canvas templates

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Ben Crothers · Making Sense Together

As Charles Darwin is said to have said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” That word ‘responsive’ is at the heart of how this Performance Canvas can help you. Many of us have faced these frustrations:

  • “We hired the right people; why aren’t they delivering?”

  • “We held the training, but performance didn’t improve.”

  • “Why are we still firefighting the same issues?”

As I mentioned in my previous post, questions and frustrations like these point to a deeper truth: performance isn’t just about skill (abilities and experience) or will (motivation and confidence); it’s more systemic than that.

That’s where the Performance Canvas can help. The Performance Canvas is something I came up with that helped me diagnose what was really going on with clients (especially in change management situations) that embraced all the real constraints, expectations and opportunities affecting performance.

In this post, I’ve got for you:

  • 📄 Your Performance Canvas templates (with download links)

  • 🧭 How to run a Performance Canvas session with your team

  • 📊 An example scenario

  • ⚙️ Facilitation tips you can use right now

Read the original on bencrothers.substack.com

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