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Team Effectiveness Wheel

Based on our Team Effectiveness team coaching model, the wheel is one of two diagnostic tools that allows teams and their leaders to create a Real Time snapshot of the level at which they believe they are performing. Adapted from the Wheel of Personal Satisfaction this tool is intended to help an individual leader identify areas in which her or his team is performing effectively and notice areas that may benefit from a fresh way of thinking.

To explore your own snapshot further, consider the areas outlined below and reflect both on the questions we’ve asked and on the thoughts and feelings that they create in you. There are 40 questions in total and it should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.  To receive a short personalised report on your wheel, simply add your name and email address.

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CATEGORIES

wol 1. Commissioning and Purpose

I fully understand why our work team was brought into being and can articulate our core purpose
I am fully aware of the success criteria by which our team will be assessed by our key stakeholders
I fully understand the resources that have been made available to our team by our key stakeholders to help us achieve our purpose
I am fully aware of the processes that have been put in place by our stakeholders to monitor and feedback on our team’s progress
I fully understand my own role in ensuring that our team successfully achieves its purpose

wol 2. Clarity of Endeavour

I am completely clear about our team’s vision and inspired to help achieve its successful implementation
I am completely clear about our team’s key performance indicators and what is required to achieve them
I have a clear understanding of our team’s behavioural charter and how this will help achieve our objectives
I have a clear understanding of my own role in the team and how to effectively carry it out
I have a clear understanding of our team’s values, and how these are aligned to the wider organisational mission and values.

wol 3. Co-Creation and Delivery

I notice when our team is performing to its maximum ability, and make sure that I share my observations with my colleagues
I do the same when the team is repeating negative patterns, displaying self-limiting beliefs or making unhelpful assumptions.
I believe that as a team we handle internal conflict positively, and that we have a strong respect for each other’s point of view
I feel that our team meetings produce strong creative ideas and generate actions that enable us to achieve our objectives more effectively
I believe that as a team we have created effective processes and are regularly improving them to ensure high performance

wol 4. Connecting and Engaging

I feel that our team has a strong relationship with our organisational sponsors and other critical stakeholders
I believe that as a team we are always seeking to engage in new ways to improve these relationships and make them more effective
I feel that our team is strong in the area of communicating our successes and raising our profile in the organisation
I believe that our team recognises and responds to the opportunities and threats that arise from discovering what is happening and changing in and for customers, stakeholders and the wider environment.
I think that our team is strong in the area of identifying and developing productive relationships with existing and potential business partners within the organisation so as to add greater value to ourselves and our work

wol 5. Core Learning

I believe that within our team there is strong support for each members’ learning and development
I can clearly articulate what I have learned, and the capabilities and capacities I have developed as a result of being part of this team in the last year
I believe that the team as a whole can clearly articulate what we have learned together, and the capacities we have developed in the last year
I believe that as a team we have a plan for how we will learn together from our experiences, both successes and difficulties, and use these learnings to improve our effectiveness
I can clearly see the results of our team learning evidenced by our increasing a) effectiveness in our task, b) cohesion in our relationships and c) alignment with organisational values and vision.

wol 6. Levels of Trust

I believe that our team has a culture in which members can openly admit their weaknesses and mistakes
I consistently leave our meetings in the knowledge that I and my peers have listened to each other and thus are completely committed to the decisions that were agreed on, even if there was some disagreement on certain issues
I am deeply concerned about the prospect of letting down my peers and believe that they feel the same way.
I believe that I have the freedom to challenge my fellow team members about their plans and approaches to important issues, and that they feel the same about me.
I am confident that I am able to put the most difficult of my professional issues on the table for discussion in the knowledge that, as a team we will work together to resolve them.

wol 7. Alignment to Purpose and Priorities

I am confident that I have a clear grasp of how our organisation works, and understand where our team fits in to its strategy
I am fully aware of how developing our own business strategy will benefit our colleagues in the wider organisation
I am confident that I am fully aware of the organisational resources available to our team and that we are making best use of these as a way to increase our effectiveness.
I believe that as a team we ensure that our own goals and priorities are at any one time in tune with what the organisation is feeling, needing and saying.
I am aware of the process by which we as a team are regularly feeding our learnings back to the wider organisation in a constructive manner.

wol 8. Resilience and Adaptability

In my opinion I work on a team whose members do not let setbacks discourage us, or allow apparent resistance or roadblocks to get in the way of us achieving our objectives
I do not become discouraged when things don’t go according to plan, or when our team plans are ‘derailed’ by external factors outside out control
I believe that as a team we learn valuable lessons for the future when we encounter tough times, and do not focus on apportioning blame on ourselves or others
I am committed to moving forwards towards my objectives no matter what obstacles or difficulties I encounter
I have a passion for what we do and believe that this passion will enable me to successfully negotiate times of change, stress, or adversity; and successfully deliver on our objectives