Instructions: Indicate on the scales that follow, your assessment of your team or group, and the way it functions by choosing the number on the scale that you feel is most descriptive of the entire Office or Unit.

Goals & Objectives

There is a lack of commonly understood goals and objectives.

Team members understand and agree on goals and objectives.

All members resources are not recognized and/or utilized.

Member resources are fully recognized and utilized.

Trust & Conflict

There is little control, and there is a lack of procedures to guide team functioning.

There is a high degree of trust among members, and conflict is dealt with openly and worked through.

Leadership

One person dominates, and leadership roles are not carried out or shared.

There is full participation in leadership; leadership roles are shared by members.

Control & Procedures

There is little control, and there is a lack of procedures to guide team functioning.

There are effective procedures to guide team functioning; team members support these procedures and regulate themselves.

Communications between members are closes and guarded.

Communications between members are open and participative.

Problem Solving/Decision Making

The team has no agreed-on approaches to problem-solving and decision-making.

The team has well-established and agreed-on approaches to problem solving and decision making.

Experimentation/Creativity

The team is rigid and does not experiment with how things are done.

The team experiments with different ways of doing things and is creative in its approach.

Evaluation of Team Functioning

The group never evaluates its functioning or process.

The group often evaluates its functioning and process.

Roles and Responsibilities

The roles and responsibilities of team members often overlap or are unclear.

The team members have a good sense of their own roles and responsibilities.

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