Building Extraordinary Teams Diagnostic

Great teams don't happen by accident

Why it Matters

Organisational performance hinges on collective team performance. Unfortunately, the natural state of a team is dysfunction. To avoid this fate teams need to systematically work on the team, not just work as a team.

Over the past decade plus, Shaun Kenny and Michelle Rushton (co-founders of the Leadership Engine platform) have worked with hundreds of teams and collected thousands of team data points. From this we've learned: to improve team performance you need to deepen Relationships (build trust, cultivate candour) and drive Results (get aligned, execute together).

What it Measures

The Building Extraordinary Teams Diagnostic is like a 360 on the team itself where every team member, including the team leader, answers the questions. The output is a collective team profile. This shared starting point is what makes the conversations that follow productive: everyone is working from the same evidence, not just their own perspective.

Relationships Results
Candour
Practise Candour
  • Speak Up with Compassionate Candour
  • Contribute Equally
Encourage Candour
  • Invite Participation
  • Respond Well
 Execution
Think
  • Decision Making
  • Problem Solving
Do
  • Collaboration
  • Accountability
Trust
Personal Trust
  • Know each other
  • Help each other
Professional Trust
  • Capability
  • Reliability
 Alignment
Strategic Alignment
  • Why (Purpose)
  • What (Goals & Priorities)
Operational Alignment
  • Who (Roles & Responsibilities)
  • How (Plans & Ways of Working)
DecisionMaking 47 ProblemSolving 69 Collaboration 69 Accountability 80 How (Plans &Ways of Working) 68 Who (Roles &Responsibilities) 84 What (Goals& Priorities) 82 Why(Purpose) 75 Knoweach other 79 Helpeach other 56 Capability 78 Reliability 67 Speak Up withCompassionateCandour 64 ContributeEqually 43 InviteParticipation 62 RespondWell 67 Execution Alignment Trust Candour RELATIONSHIPS RESULTS ACTION Take action FOUNDATION Build the foundations 59 67 70 77
Who's it for

There are actually four different Building Extraordinary Teams questionnaires depending on the type of team it is for. Each questionnaire shares 80% of the same universally applicable questions and 20% which are tailored to that specific team type.

Executive Teams Leadership Teams Functional Teams Operational Teams
How it Works
Assessment Sources
Team Leader
Team Members
Team Leader
Team
Team members
Two ways to work with us

Leadership Engine is the platform for diagnostics, dashboards and roadmaps.

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People of Influence is the consultancy through which Michelle Rushton and Shaun Kenny deliver leadership development programs, team offsites and facilitate impactful conferences.

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