Instructions
Read each statement below, and, using the following scale, decide how accurately it describes your team:
Strongly disagree: 0 points
Disagree: 1 point
Agree: 2 points
Strongly agree: 3 points
Place the point value of your answer choice on the blank line at the beginning of each statement below:
____ 1. Team members actively support and have one another’s best interests at heart.
____ 2. Team members value achieving team goals over individual accomplishments and personal agendas.
____ 3. Team members are willing to compromise and make sacrifices for the sake of the team.
____ 4. Team members and the team leader collaborate to achieve the team’s goals.
____ 5. Our team avoids working in silos and effectively partners with others inside and outside of our organization.
_____ Total score
Interpreting Your Scores
0 to 5. Yours is a highly dysfunctional team with highly frustrated team members—many of which play for TeamMe. Team members view one another more as competitors than as collaborators, and they are concerned with what is best for them. This dysfunction makes effective partnerships outside the team impossible. It may actually be in the best interest of the organization to either disband the team or identify a team leader extremely skilled in dealing with conflict and building a cohesive team.
5 to 10. There are likely cliques in your team. Within each clique there is mutual support, harmony, and respect. Individual loyalty and commitment is greater to these subteams than to the team as a whole. There may be power struggles between the cliques for resources and influence. The team leader may himself be more closely aligned with a particular clique; regardless, the team leader is ineffective in breaking down the barriers between the subgroups to create a single unified team.
11 to 15. As in any partnership, team members bring their own unique personalities, perspectives, and differences of opinion. SuperTeams are characterized by team members who have a strong mutual respect for one another and are willing to sacrifice and compromise for the benefit of one another and the team. If you achieved a score at this level, team members not only partner successfully with one another but they also likely do so with the team leader, sponsor, other departments, and their customers.
