As a team leader, you should be able to confidently answer the question, “How effective is your team?” You should also be able to provide evidence that supports your conclusion.
Great or Lucky?
If your team is achieving its goals, it would be easy to conclude you’re doing great.
The team’s results are one indicator of how well a team is operating, but don’t tell the whole story.
You could have a lousy team that isn’t challenged. The results may be good, but the team is in no way living up to its potential.
Conversely you may have a team that really has it all together but is stuck in nearly impossible circumstances. The poor results suggest an ineffective team, but it might just be a bad situation.
To judge a team’s effectiveness, the leader must examine the results along with many other factors.
To help assess your team, we’ve created a process called the TeamCheck Assessment.
Take the Teamcheck Assessment
This is a free tool for you to use in order to organize your own opinions about how your team is doing. You simply rate your team on a list of team effectiveness characteristics. It will take about 5 minutes to complete.
