Fixing Underperforming Teams

by RefoundAI

Fixing Underperforming Teams is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by RefoundAI in lenny-skills.

1.3K stars161 forkson RefoundAI/lenny-skillsAdded 2026/08/20Repository updated 2026/07/16

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Install Fixing Underperforming Teams

Copy Fixing Underperforming Teams into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills/tree/main/skills/fixing-underperforming-teams ~/.claude/skills/fixing-underperforming-teams

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/fixing-underperforming-teams/SKILL.md in RefoundAI/lenny-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/fixing-underperforming-teams
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Fixing Underperforming Teams does

Fixing Underperforming Teams helps users identify why a team is struggling and implement a structured recovery plan addressing leadership gaps, individual performance, and structural misalignments.

Fixing Underperforming Teams is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Fixing Underperforming Teams comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-assistant, claude, claude-code and lenny-rachitsky.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Fixing Underperforming Teams

Diagnose the root cause of dysfunction and take decisive action to restore high performance.

Help the user with fixing underperforming teams using insights from 12 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

How to Help

Diagnose the source - Help the user distinguish between leadership failure, skill gaps, or structural strategy issues.
Identify complicity - Guide the leader in reflecting on how their own patterns are contributing to the team struggles.
Draft an action plan - Structure a sequence of interventions ranging from process changes to talent decisions.
Prepare for hard conversations - Provide scripts and frameworks for delivering direct feedback or handling terminations.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Fixing Underperforming Teams

What else does RefoundAI publish alongside Fixing Underperforming Teams?
Fixing Underperforming Teams is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from RefoundAI/lenny-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Evals, AI Product Strategy and AI-Assisted Prototyping. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Fixing Underperforming Teams does, and is maintained by RefoundAI in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the RefoundAI/lenny-skills page.
How does Fixing Underperforming Teams compare to other Quality skills?
Fixing Underperforming Teams ranks #727 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Fixing Underperforming Teams against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.