Clarity, Capacity and Collaboration

What can you as a founder, leader or manager do to help a struggling team?

Focus on the 3Cs: Clarity, Capacity and Collaboration.

Clarity

How can increase clarity for the team? Does everyone know what we are working on and why we are working on it? Can I make our current goals clear, our prioritization crystal and our targets obvious?

Capacity

Can I make our capacity visible? Do we have the time, skills and energy we need? Should we bring in outside perspective or knowledge? Are we working on too many things?

Collaboration

Can I identify and propose opportunities for collaboration? Can we work together on prioritized initiatives? Can we discuss challenges and find solutions together? Can we commit to reach out to others when we are stuck?

When either of these is lacking the team will focus on the wrong goals, they will be slower and cause friction, work in silos, make complicated solutions and will miss out on innovation.

The sweet spot is when all of this works.

Implementation Note

The power of this framework isn’t in formally announcing it, but in using it as a leadership compass to guide your team. Like good coaching, it’s about consistently creating an environment where these elements can thrive, especially when dealing with changing priorities from above. The framework becomes most effective when it feels natural rather than forced.