RESEARCH

{TQ} | TEAM INTELLIGENCE:

The Operating System to Transform Individual Brilliance into Breakthrough Performance


{TQ} | Team Intelligence is an assessment that helps campus leadership teams measure and develop their collective intelligence.


Built at the intersection of Perceptual (PQ), Intellectual (IQ), and Emotional Intelligence (EQ), TQ reveals how well teams leverage diverse thinking styles, communicate, and execute together. It provides a shared language that improves team dynamics, decision-making, and institutional outcomes.


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The Team Intelligence Gap

Why High-IQ Leaders Produce Low-TQ Results



The Team Intelligence Gap" by Dr. Joe Hill addresses why high-performing leadership teams underperform—not from lack of talent, but from fragmented intelligence.


It introduces the TQ Model (IQ × EQ × PQ), showing how cognitive, emotional, and positional intelligence must integrate for team effectiveness. The framework includes seven core competencies, five lead measures, and a four-stage development pathway with diagnostic tools to advance institutional performance and achieve sustainable excellence..


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Breaking the Middle Management Crisis

 A Higher Performance Executive Brief



This whitepaper reveals how neglecting middle managers—deans, principals, and directors—creates hidden costs and weakens educational performance. Most systems train executives but ignore the "invisible middle," where strategy fails.


It introduces Team Intelligence (TQ)—combining IQ, EQ, and PQ—to rebuild collective performance. Schools adopting TQ achieved measurable gains in retention, engagement, and student outcomes.


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2025-2026 State Of

Campus Culture Report

Educational Leadership Team Performance in K–12 and Higher Education



The 2025–2026 State of Campus Culture Report by Higher Performance Group presents findings from a national research study of 1,050 educational leadership teams in K–12 and higher education.


The report analyzes the current state of campus leadership culture, showing a decline in average team capacity and identifying how leadership culture directly impacts institutional outcomes such as enrollment, retention, and strategic execution. It outlines key factors affecting performance—including communication, alignment, connection, capacity, and execution—and highlights three organizational trajectories: improving, plateauing, and declining teams.

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