REFLECTION TOOLS

Below is a list of useful questions to reflect on your team effectiveness before our consultation.

• How do you make decisions?

• Are you an expert in your subject?

• What happens when you are under time pressure?

• Do you have regular conversations with your team about how their individual work affects the larger goals of your department?

• Are you disciplined about learning from every project, successful or not?

• What do you do when your goals are not achieved?

• Do you make time to evaluate how effective you work as a group?

• How do you give each other constructive feedback?

• Are team members provided with development opportunities?

• Do you have the chance to use your team’s strengths every day?

• Would you choose to work with each one of your team members again and why? 

• Does your team feel recognised for its accomplishments?

• Does your team understand the vision, and how their role fits into the big picture?

• Is the vision meaningful to you?

• Does your team understand what is expected of them?

• Does your team understand the rationale behind decisions? Do they agree with it?

• Do you know who to influence and how?

• Do you experience a lot of role overlap with other teams? Does it affect team morale?

• How do you evaluate your position as a team?

• Are meetings efficient?

• How do you get other teams involved?

• How do you deal with lack of resources?

• How do you make decisions?

MEASURABLE RESULTS

TEAM

1.
Develops a clear vision, strategy, and goals linked to the organization’s success

2.
Gains a voice in the company’s strategic decision-making

3.
Communicates effectively with all stakeholders, from the Board, to colleagues and consumers

4.
Feels empowered to take an active role and lead by example

EMPLOYEE

1.
Is clear on their role and how their individual goals support the organization’s strategy

2.
Creates and communicates the intended impact more successfully

3.
Is confident developing a broad network inside and outside the organization

4.
Finds it easier to anticipate and solve conflict effectively

ORGANISATION

1.
Adapts its mindset to focus on Sustainable Profit as a strategic asset

2.
Makes better business by making business better

3.
Achieves strategic goals consistently through clarity at individual goal level

4.
Reacts to a changing environment in agile and resilient ways