Assessing Your Team
To build a successful future, we must first let go of the past.
This involves looking closely at every dimension of the teams working practices and making improvements in the critical areas. Accurate feedback is essential for improved teamwork. We then need to understand how our colleagues feel about what we do and act to improve our performance.
Team Architecture is designed to obtain accurate data about how the team performs. This is the vital information it needs to move forward. This assessment tool provides a structured approach to:-
- Working with stakeholders to assess the team
- Helping them feel included in the decision making process
- Providing specific targets for improvement
Too often the future potential of our teams is undermined by a poor structure and we do not have time to think about how to improve.
It leaves us stuck in a debilitating cycle of minor adaptations which eat away at the foundations of the team.
Every team needs to take a step back, develop a clear view of the future and move on.
This picture a team has of itself is often distorted by an over emphasis on targets and a disregard for more complex issues
We work with your team members/ stakeholders to review their perceptions of how the team works. We help you to design the process to make this happen.
To understand teams we must look at them in many different ways:-
What they are trying to achieve?
- How team members communicate with each other?
- How individuals fit into the team?
This is like painting a portrait using different sketches to illustrate the different structural aspects of the team. We measure performance against different dimensions to provide an objective view of the team’s capability.
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Improved working relationships will result, as colleagues better understand where people can contribute. Teams who have been accurately assessed know:-
- Where to invest their time and energy
- How to maximise their effectiveness
- What their limitations are
- Preparation of the approach
- Promotion of the process
- Design of questionnaires
- Running of focus groups
- Preparation of reports
- Facilitation of the feedback
- Benchmarking
- A road map for improvement
- Action strategies
- Coaching of individual team leaders or team members
Benefits:
- Builds your team’s confidence
- Develops an accurate picture of teamwork
- Facilitates the setting of clear improvement targets
- Helps teams manage their reputation
- Reduces team conflict
- Contributes to the Investor In People Standard
We will work in partnership with you and your team to deliver this bespoke assessment service. Our experienced coaches will facilitate the process from start to finish.
You will achieve measurable results in terms of performance, potential, long-term relationships and personal satisfaction of all team members.
This will encourage a culture where team members are continually able to adapt and change.
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