Is your team producing top value?
Wasting precious resource?
Something in between?

TEAM AUDIT

A.
[ ] Is every member of your team aligned: a committed owner of your shared purpose?

OR

B.
[ ] Do they operate in their own fiefdoms?
[ ] See each other as obstacles, rather than allies, to getting things done?

 

A.
[ ] When faced with inevitable business breakdowns and challenges, does your team jump in - seeking each other's perspectives, joining their expertise and resources, and taking financially sound action?

OR

B.
[ ] Does it respond in the spirit of overwhelm, scarcity, and panic?

 

A.
[ ] Do decisions made in meetings stick - are they supported and fulfilled?

OR

B.
[ ] Are decisions covertly undermined because the "real" conversations take place privately, outside the meeting?

 

A.
[ ] Are your team members externally focused, knowing how to "read the world" of your customer so they are producing solutions that anticipate customer's needs ?

OR

B.
[ ] Are they consumed with internal politics, competing priorities, interpersonal stalemates, and how to get the best personal ratings?

 

A.
[ ] Can your team make good decisions rapidly?

OR

B.
[ ] Do they attempt projects without proper assessment?
[ ] Get stuck in analysis and move to action too late?
[ ] Are they confused about what would yield highest leverage?

 

A.
[ ] Do team members streamline action, get things done when they say they're going to, do them only once, and well the first time?

OR

B.
[ ] Are they captured in `crisis du jour' firefighting?
[ ] Do they wonder why they keep generating low return on initiatives and expenditures?

If you answered "B" to any question above, your team is making it easier for the competition. There's no doubt that your team members have good intentions and work hard, but too often their energy is wasted and what is produced is mediocrity. If you want to seal up that energy leak, we can help. There is no cost to explore what we can accomplish together.