Lawrenceville, GA – December 1, 2025 – Career Upside, a consulting firm focused on career coaching, team coaching, and executive coaching, today announced the expansion of its Team Chemistry and Coaching offering to include the Birkman High-Performing Teams program. This data-driven team development solution uses the Birkman Method to strengthen collaboration, improve communication, and help organizations create the conditions necessary for sustained high performance.
How To Do More With Fewer People: Team Chemistry
Organizations today face rising complexity, including the challenge of getting more done with fewer people, remote work strain, communication bottlenecks, siloed decision-making, and, at times, role ambiguity. These issues sabotage productivity and erode trust.
Career Upside addresses these challenges using Birkman behavioral analytics to uncover each team member’s natural style, underlying Needs, and core motivators. Through guided discussion and customized team data, participants gain practical strategies that elevate alignment, reduce friction, and strengthen team cohesion, while also providing everyone with a non-judgmental language for more productive conversations. Imagine knowing that your usual style is to be really tactful in one-to-one communication, but your team member really needs you to be candid. How would this knowledge help you improve your communication of a sensitive issue with that person?
Why the Birkman Method?
Most assessments ask you questions about how you see yourself, then give you a readout of your usual behavior. The Birkman Method is a scientifically validated assessment that provides deeper workplace insight than traditional personality tools because it helps individuals understand their underlying and motivational needs. In the High-Performing Teams workshop, participants receive customized data on:
- Their top Usual Behaviors (strengths and overused strengths)
- Their most significant Needs (conditions for psychological safety)
- Their Motivational Focus and Work Interests
Teams also receive aggregate Birkman insights that reveal shared behavioral patterns, common motivators, and collective blind spots, enabling more transparent communication, better team/role alignment, and stronger chemistry and collaboration.
“The future of high-performing teams is rooted in understanding people, not just processes. By using the Birkman Method, we give organizations a clear operational blueprint to build Purpose, Clarity, and Psychological Safety—the three conditions teams need to perform at a high level consistently.” — Todd McCarty, Founder & CEO, Career Upside.
How To Measure Success
The program includes pre- and post-survey measures of outcomes. Organizations participating in the program report improvements in:
- Productivity and project execution
- Team communication and decision-making
- Employee engagement and retention
- Leadership effectiveness and coaching strategies
The workshop concludes with a practical action plan, so teams leave with clear commitments and next steps for ongoing performance improvement.
Learn more at https://career-upside.com/career-services/high-performing-teams/.
About Career Upside
Career Upside helps organizations optimize human performance through behavioral insight, career, team, and executive coaching, and advanced assessments. Specializing in the Birkman Method, the firm provides solutions for team chemistry, leadership development, role alignment, and organizational culture.
Media Contact
Todd McCarty
Principal, Career & Executive Coach
todd.mccarty@career-upside.com
404-219-7056
