Welcome to the Effectiveness through Awareness Team Review
The Team Review is a simple and cost effective way of
finding out how to help your team be better at what it does
The Team Review is a very powerful diagnostic tool that can be used by team leaders and facilitators to support team building and team development sessions.
The Team Review was designed by Ian Clarke who is an organisational development consultant. Ian founded Effectiveness through Awareness in 1994 and has running team building sessions for many years.
The Team Review was originally created as a team diagnostic tool to help Ian work with teams who were interested in improving the way they worked. It very quickly developed into a low cost tool (£50 ex VAT) (about $95) that helps teams focus on the important issues.
Listen to Ian talk about the Team Review.
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How does the The Team Review work?
There are the 16 key characteristics that need a team leader's full attention if he/she wants to create an effective team:
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1 Team Goals and Objectives 2 Personal Goals and Objectives 3 Utilisation of Resource 4 Trust and Conflict 5 Leadership 6 Controls and Procedures 7 Interpersonal Communications 8 Problem Solving & Decision Making |
9 Experimentation & Creativity 10 Evaluation 11 Roles and Responsibilities 12 Support 13 Success 14 Customer Focus 15 Quality 16 Performance |
Each team member, including the team leader, completes an online questionnaire about the 16 key characteristics. The questionnaire takes about 15 to 20 minutes to complete. The responses are analysed and collated into a Team Review that is emailed to the team leader or facilitator working with the team.
The Team Review helps the team leader/facilitator see the strengths and development areas of the team, as perceived by all the team members.
To help you obtain the most value from your Team Review there are links to online help which gives suggestions on how to maintain the team's strengths and address the team's development areas.
It's as simple as that!
Team Review interactive
In addition you can purchase the Team Review interactive.
Once you have received your Team Review you arrange, by email, to have a confidential, one hour, telephone session. Ian will discuss with you ...
- what all the numbers mean
- possible interpretations
- themes arising from team members' comments
- suggestions on ways of using the Team Review with team members to obtain the best value from the data.
What are the benefits for the team?
The Team Review ...
- gives each team member the opportunity of considering the 16 key team characteristics of the team; what he/she currently expects of the team; how effective the team is on each characteristic and what the team needs to do to become more effective.
- gives team leaders/facilitators an understanding of team members' perceptions and a clear focus for the team's discussions on improving the team's effectiveness in either a meeting or conference call.
- helps team leaders/facilitators bring issues to the surface that, otherwise, might not get discussed.
- is a very powerful tool when all team members work with it in a team meeting.
- is a quick and simple way of helping team leaders keep a "a finger on the pulse of their teams" - especially if their teams are geographically spread out and has difficulty meeting regularly.
- can be done on a regular basis, because it only requires a small investment (£50 ex VAT) (about $95) and takes up a minimal amount of time, allowing team leaders to track the development of their teams.
- enables team leaders to demonstrate to others how well their teams are functioning.
- gives team leaders/facilitators access to online help and suggestions for improving the effectiveness of their team.