Team Audit helps you build high performance teams

Available either in the Thomas Key software or on the Thomas website, it enables an organisation to:

• Identify its ideal team culture
• Assess the existing team profile
• Provide a gap analysis in terms of behavioural and role fit short fall

Team Audit is unique in that it gets to the root cause of the problem in hours rather than weeks. It helps team members understand themselves and the impact their behaviour has on others. It can be used when teams are not performing as well as they should be, when a company strategy calls for change, if an organisation is not performing or when there is a change to the membership of the team.

Team Audit helps you build high performance teams. Good teamwork is the cornerstone to business success but too often companies get it wrong. So, what makes a good team a great team? A successful team needs the right proportion of people with the right mix of skills, experience and perspective. A high performance team relies on three factors:

• Self awareness
• Recognition of different team member’s contributions
• Modification of behaviour to enhance team effectiveness

A team must analyse its structure – how it works, what its strengths and limitations are and the role each person plays within it. If your team is not working as well as it could be you need to get to the root cause of the problem and plan remedial measures to address it.

Team Audit enables you to identify your ideal team culture, assess actual team members and analyse the gap in terms of behavioural and role shortfall. The audit also predicts a team’s reaction to change, allowing an organisation to plan with confidence.

Teams fail because of mismatched needs, unresolved conflict, personality clashes and lack of trust. All these can be addressed through understanding and recognising how each person in the team behaves and responds to different situations. Self awareness creates a strong platform from which more ambitious performance goals can be achieved.