Team Effectiveness Assessment

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This Team Effectiveness Assessment will help to identify where you believe the strengths and the areas for development lie for your team. It will help you recognise what sort of team building exercise would be most useful for your team.

Answer this questionnaire honestly.
Please do not leave any questions blank as this disables the calculation.
Don't forget to press the "Calculate" button at the end of the form once you have given all your responses.
For each question you have 5 options (see below)

There are twenty five questions relating to teams. Answer, as honestly as possible, using the following scale. Enter your answer in the white spaces provided.

To what extent does my team......

Very Rarely - 1
Rarely - 2
Somewhat - 3
Often - 4
Very Often - 5

	*To what extent does my team.........*
1	Enjoy working together
2	Give each other praise
3	People in the team know what is going on
4	Have a clear vision of what it is trying to achieve
5	Have a good balance of skills in the team

6	Work hard and play hard
7	Know how to support each other, without needing to ask
8	Meet regularly
9	Have clear objectives that support the achievement of the team‘s vision
10	Have good systems and procedures for achieving the basics of the job

11	Have a distinctive positive team culture
12	Team members give each other constructive, critical feedback
13	Receive relevant information in good time
14	The team members know the team’s priorities
15	The team members work effectively

16	Have a team culture that values sharing best practice and learning from each other
17	Have an agreed set of values
18	Meet effectively (e.g. Agenda, Timekeeping, etc.)
19	Have clear and simple measures of achievement and progress
20	Have a way of making decisions which ensures team members ‘buy in’

21	Have a reputation for being successful
22	Face difficult people issues, within the team, constructively
23	Make effective use of communication technology (e.mail, Telephones, Faxes, etc.)
24	Let people outside the team know what it is trying to achieve
25	Enable its team members to develop and try new things

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Atmosphere	This is sometimes called the culture of the team and is defined by how it feels to be in the team.	%
Relationships	A good team atmosphere is based on the teams quality of relationships and how well people ‘get on’	%
Communication	This is a critically important dimension and is related to the flow of information and the volume of information that people have to do their job. Do people know what is going on?	%
Direction	Effective teams have an internal organisation that enables members to sustain performance by enabling them to use the team strengths well whilst compensating for areas of development.	%
Objectives	This dimension refers to the teams purpose. People need to have a clear understanding of both what the mission is and also what it means to the team members on a day to day business.	%

80 - 100	An area of considerable strength. This team is outstanding in this area and other teams should be looking to this one as a model to learn from.
59 - 79	An area of strength that the team should capitalise upon.
42 - 58	Area that although not a significant weakness for the team is also not a strength. Overall team performance may be advanced appreciably by addressing this area.
29 - 41	An area of weakness that is likely to be holding the team back.
0 - 28	Area of considerable weakness for this team. It is undoubtedly impacting the teams overall performance and should be addresses immediately.

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