In all teams, two gaps exist:
- The skills gap is the gap between what we should be able to do and what we are actually able to do
- The behavior gap is the gap between what we know we should be doing and what we actually do
A key component of improving the well-functioning of a team ss to work systematically to manage these two gaps.
The management consists of both:
- Increasing the gap by identifying useful expectations for skills and behaviour, and
- Reducing the gap by training and developing people
Here are some relevant resources for managing these gaps: