The Team Diagnostic Survey Team Assessment & Coaching

Some advantages of using the TDS™ with your team include:

• World-class research underpinned by top scholars on teams & teaming

• Widely validated on 1000’s of teams in a diverse range of industries, sectors and organizational levels

• Predicts up to 80% of a team’s effectiveness of 3 criteria

• Provides team leaders, members and coaches with the most powerful levers for increasing team success

• Identifies 6 conditions (3 Essential + 3 Enabling) that drive team effectiveness

• Guides teams in the design, launch and coaching phases of any team development effort

• Help your team unleash the power of the 6 conditions of team effectiveness.

With your team, embark on a journey of discovery and learning.

• Coaching Planning Session with Leaders

• Coaching Facilitative Collaborative Team Information Discussion

• Study Launch: The Team Diagnostic Survey (TDS) of the 6 Conditions Framework

• The Team Diagnostic Survey Report

• Coaching Session with Leader to Debrief The Team Diagnostic Survey Report

• Coaching Session with Team to Debrief The Team Diagnostic Survey Report

The Research

The 6 Conditions for Team Effectiveness Framework comes from decades of research by leading teams scholars at Harvard University. Richard Hackman, Ruth Wageman, and their students and colleagues have studied thousands of teams around the world, in a wide range of industries, sectors, and cultural contexts. Their work identified 6 Conditions that are all actionable, designable elements of teams and together they foster great teamwork and significant accomplishment over time. The research about these 6 fundamental conditions has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and books. (See Publications)

Highlights:

• Wageman et al.’s (2008) study of 127 senior leadership teams from around the world showed that less than 25% were outstanding teams (“Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make them Great”). Those that were outstanding scored radically better on the 6 Conditions, and together the 6 Conditions predicted 60% of the variation in team effectiveness.

• Hackman’s (2011) study of teams in the US intelligence community showed that Real Teams that were well designed and whose work was interdependent developed a self-managing approach to peer coaching; the 6 Conditions accounted for 74% of the variance in intelligence team effectiveness.

• Wageman’s (2001) study of customer service teams showed that the last of the 6 Conditions (Team Coaching) only made a difference to team effectiveness when the team’s were well designed on the other 5 Conditions. In other words, only Real Teams that already had a Compelling Purpose, Right People, Sound Structure and a Supportive Context could take advantage of excellent Team Coaching around their work processes; when they were well-designed, Team Coaching made a significant positive difference in their performance and self-management over time.

The 6 Conditions framework has informed a wide range of team studies: Change leadership teams (Higgins et al., 2011), healthcare teams (Edmondson, 1999); engineering and design teams (Kim & McNair, 2010); knowledge work teams (Haas, 2010) and many more.