The Teaming Inefficiency Gap™ Goods / Services Description (USPTO-Ready Language) Educational services, namely providing leadership-development workshops, executive and team-coaching programs, organizational training, and digital learning content focused on diagnosing and closing gaps between team performance and latent potential using a proprietary framework; downloadable and printed educational materials, including books, workbooks, assessments, and diagnostic guides featuring structured models, behavioral practices, and leadership tools for improving team effectiveness, trust, and sustained performance. Basis for Trademark The Teaming Inefficiency Gap™ is a proprietary performance and leadership framework developed by Bryan Powell that identifies and operationalizes the gap between a team’s visible results and its unrealized potential. The framework reframes team performance challenges away from talent or effort deficiencies and toward how teams work together as a human system. Unlike generic discussions of team effectiveness or engagement, this framework provides a distinct diagnostic lens, defined behavioral patterns, and repeatable leadership practices that are embedded within a broader system of team development. It is used consistently across books, workshops, coaching engagements, and leadership programs as a source-identifying construct. 🔍 Why This Is Trademarkable ✔ Distinctive This is not a general statement about inefficiency or teamwork. The Teaming Inefficiency Gap™ names a specific, proprietary phenomenon: the space between observable performance and latent team capacity caused by underutilized insight, hidden tension, and unspoken contribution. The mark functions as a diagnostic and developmental construct, not a descriptive phrase. ✔ Original Structure and Framing You have created: A named performance gap specific to teaming behavior A defined set of recurring behavioral patterns that close the gap A repeatable coaching and leadership diagnostic lens Language that reframes team performance as a dynamic human system The originality lies not just in the name, but in the structured way leaders are coached to see, name, and address team performance breakdowns. ✔ Integrated Into a Branded System The Teaming Inefficiency Gap™ is: Introduced and defined within The Efficient Frontier of Teaming™ Used as an entry-point diagnostic in coaching and workshops Integrated with your Four Team Levels Model™, Collective Leadership Model™, and Team Contract™ This integration strengthens trademark validity by demonstrating consistent, source-identifying use within a coherent IP ecosystem. ✔ Delivered as a Commercial Educational Product The framework is actively used in: Books and written thought leadership Leadership workshops and keynotes Executive and team coaching engagements Training programs, slides, and diagnostic tools USPTO favors marks that represent repeatable, commercialized educational systems, which this clearly does. Summary Positioning Statement (Internal Use) The Teaming Inefficiency Gap™ is a proprietary leadership and team-performance framework that helps leaders identify and close the hidden gap between how teams appear to perform and what they are truly capable of achieving—by transforming how trust, tension, purpose, and contribution are activated inside the team.