OD Process Technology
Significance of integrated teamwork analysis

Fundamental Teamwork Assessment for Building Effective Teamwork

Insightful and fundamental teamwork assessment, or teamwork analysis, is critical to building high performing teams.

It is at the heart of team leadership training, teamwork training, and building effective teamwork. It is also important for development of teamwork scorecard that helps monitor the level of teamwork and relevant factors across teams in an organization. But teamwork assessment should reflect the business, strategic and workplace situations of teams.

When used within a team culture that supports integrity and actualizing attributes of high-performing teams, teamwork inventory and teamwork scorecard could help improve the competitiveness of teams and foster organizational commitment.

Team Building

As organizations become flatter in structure—by stripping out irrelevant layers and roles—and as they renew their processes and vitalize their technologies to gain competitive advantage, it becomes increasingly important to have successful, high-performing work teams.

Team Building - Significance
Team Building

Teamwork assessment is at the heart of team leadership training, teamwork training, and building effective teamwork.

Teamwork Assessment - Insights
Team Building

When used within a team culture that supports integrity and actualizing attributes of high-performing teams, teamwork inventory and teamwork scorecard could help improve the competitiveness of teams and foster organizational commitment.

Teamwork Assessment - Significance
Team Building

Key pillars of effective teamwork include trust, a common sense of purpose, vibrant and productive communication, mutual respect, and constructive risk-taking behaviors.

Effective Teamwork - Key Pillars
Teamwork Analysis

The productive and sure way to sustain high performance in teams is objective, focused, and consistent review of team quality and teamwork for appropriate follow-through team building activities.

Teamwork Activities - Insights
Building teamness for strategic results

Fundamental Teamwork Inventory

It is imperative that teams or work groups periodically assess their level of teamwork and team synergy to see where improvement is needed.


Here's a simple fundamental teamwork inventory you could use in your business or organization.

The inventory is called ‘Analyze Your Teamwork for Success!’


Your internal organizational development and human resource specialists could use 'Analyze Your Teamwork for Success!' to conduct fundamental teamwork assessment across your business.



Analyze Your Teamwork for Success! comes in two complementary parts:


Part 1, called Teamwork Fundamentals (in PDF), covers teamwork fundamentals and team optimization exercises. This blueprint provides each team member the basic knowledge on the essence of high team performance as well as what they should be doing for ultimate team success.


Part 2, called Teamwork Inventory (in PDF), has two primary sections, helping your teams to assess teamwork and develop a sense of commitment on team development for high performance.


A Leader Guide (in PDF) for facilitating the assessment of teamwork is also included.


Price: US$8.0


Buy 'Analyze Your Teamwork for Success' Inventory

Shaping the analysis of teamwork

Fundamental Issues to Unravel in Effective Teamwork Assessment

Key Pillars of Teamwork

Fundamental teamwork analysis should focus on key pillars of effective teamwork.

The key pillars of effective teamwork include: trust, a common sense of purpose, vibrant and productive communication, mutual respect, and constructive risk-taking behaviors.

The bedrock of teamwork is trust, and many of the other elements derive from, or are based on, it. People need to get used to one another before they could open up to others. Without trust, vibrant and productive communication is not possible. Yet without vibrant, productive communication, effective team interaction is not possible. Without effective team interaction, productive teamwork is not possible.

One primary way in which trust is manifested in a team is the level of tolerance displayed by team members. This involves tolerance of other members, and tolerance of the differences between each member. Effective teamwork requires that members transcend offense. They would have to seek ways to reconcile differences in a productive, healthy manner.

Focusing teamwork assessment

Fundamental Issues to Unravel in Effective Teamwork Assessment—2

Team Processes

Team processes—such as those involved in planning, decision making, and problem solving—should be factored into fundamental assessment of teamwork. When these are neglected, taken for granted or unaligned to changing team circumstances, they are usually the root causes of ineffective or poor teamwork.


Organizational Context

Organizational context—together with team context—influences the degree of teamwork. It should be integrated in any teamwork assessment.

For effective teamwork to be sustained, the following organizational conditions must be met:

  • Commitment to team organization and teamwork by the top management
  • Prevalence of effective and healthy corporate team culture and team climate
  • Organizational culture that promotes integrity and transparency, and
  • Organizational empowerment of people working in teams or as teams
Intergating teamwork assessment with teamwork building activities

Teamwork Assessment Integrated With Teamwork Training

The productive and sure way to sustain high performance in teams is objective, focused, and consistent review of team quality and teamwork for appropriate follow-through team building activities. Therefore, teamwork assessment should be integrated with various teamwork building activities that focus on the real-life, business-linked challenges, experiences and performance metrics of teams. In fact, no teamwork training or team leadership training should be undertaken without first undertaking a thorough teamwork assessment.


Administration of a teamwork inventory or an assessment of teamwork, should be followed by valid feedback, interactive sessions and teamwork building workshops/workouts on improvement areas, involving team members and relevant stakeholders.

Proactive collaboration and productive engagement

Technical Assistance and Partnership

Need our technical assistance or partnership on building high-performing teams to sustain desired results? Get Help:info@odsynergy.com.

Contact Us