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Team effectiveness can make or break your business. Are you getting the most out of your team? How can you tell?
By doing a team assessment, that’s how. There are eighteen crucial areas that will help determine how effective your team is today. Unfortunately, I can’t list them all in a single article but I can give you a few tips that can help get you started.
- How would you assess the level of cooperation between members of the team?
- Does information flow freely within your organization?
- Is creativity encouraged and rewarded?
- How are conflicts handled? Are they fully discussed and resolved or put on the back burner?
- How do you support one another? Is praise given and encouraged?
- Do you subscribe to an open environment where people are allowed to speak their minds or is there fear of reprisal?
- Do team members trust one another?
- Do people have pride in their jobs and accomplishments?
Do any of these issues resonate with you? You can’t run a productive business without a solid team. In today’s market place we need to be as competitive as possible. The workload continues to increase, while our human resources seem to be depleted.
Don’t run the risk of burning out your team. Pay attention to their needs and your company will proper, ignore their needs and you could be headed for trouble.