Team Self Assessment
Please rate our effectiveness against the following “characteristics of effective teams.” Put a check mark in the column that best reflects your assessment of the team.
| CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL TEAMS | Development Need 1 |
2 |
Effective 3 |
4 |
Outstanding Strength 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Establishes clear purpose for the work of the team | |||||
| Balanced participation of all members | |||||
| An absence of cliques and factions | |||||
| Respect for but not over-dominance of “the leader” | |||||
| We trust each other | |||||
| Comfort, willingness to state feelings and disagreements openly, honestly and with respect for each other | |||||
| Balance of attention to process as well as content (task) | |||||
| We listen carefully for true understanding of what others are trying to say | |||||
| We validate team members as people (behind their views and ideas) | |||||
| We validate people outside of our team who seek to support us | |||||
| We test assumptions and inferences before acting | |||||
| We make statements, then invite questions, comments, alternative points of view | |||||
| We keep the discussion focused | |||||
| We regularly do self critiques of our process effectiveness, and modify process as appropriate | |||||
| We seek to reach decisions by an agreed upon process |
