Am I A Team Player?

This assessment is designed to create individual awareness into how one’s personal behavior and contribution on a team will affect the team’s productivity and effectiveness.

Highly effective teams are made of great contributors whose behavior aids the team in it’s overall performance. Many organizations have been studied and surveyed to determine what the characteristics of high performing teams are, and additionally, what each individual team member must contribute to make these characteristics emerge.

A genetic structural model of what teamwork is in it’s natural state has been applied in the development of this instrument. (See diagram).

Mirroring natural genetic structure and bi-polar relationships the categories for teamwork have emerged. Expanding the comparisons between relationships in the different hexagonal ‘cells’ can be carried out to determine the naturally occurring phenomenon or effects one will experience on any team based upon their behaviors. Each individual’s impact as a team player will have a large effect on the team as a whole. The Quality Values Team Player Survey is arranged in these ‘cellular’ categories for easy visual analysis at the end of the questionnaire.

Team Player Effects:

As demonstrated in the Team Player Molecule above, the bi polar relationships of Self, Others and Work Process, directly affect Efficiency and Effectiveness, Collaboration and Goals & Strategy. These relationships, in turn, affect Personal Follow Through, Personal Behavior and Conduct, Team Synergy, Coordination, Critical Events, and Team Innovation. Additionally, these effects share a strong relationship with Self Discipline, Climate and Atmosphere, Team Productivity, Momentum, Measurement, and Individual productivity. Fundamentally, the Team Player impacts everything in the entire teamwork system of which they are a member.

Participants receive a comprehensive report detailing their personal strengths and weaknesses as a team player and a personal improvement plan to increase their effectiveness on the teams of which they are a part.

Terms Explained:

Personal Follow Through- Personal follow through means that you accomplish what you commit to with others. You make yourself more attractive as a team player by being dependable and effective at accomplishing what you say you will do.

Personal Behavior & Conduct- Means that you do not bring negativity, moods, personal agendas or other negativity to your relationship with other team members. You conduct yourself in such a way as to enable rather than disable interactions with others

Self Discipline- Means that you maintain a commitment to yourself to follow through with what needs doing, or doing what you know to be right, despite the difficulty or discomfort it might cause you personally. Self discipline also means performing these events with regularity and the necessary intensity for successful accomplishment and to maintain a high level of performance as an individual.

Synergy- Means the magical effect of producing more than the sum of the parts when people work harmoniously together. Synergy can be recognized by harmonious interaction, higher energy level, increased levels of productivity, and higher individual satisfaction during teamwork processes.

Climate and Atmosphere- Means the environment which is created by people working together. Morale, satisfaction, comfort, and participation are all influenced by climate and atmosphere.

Coordination- Means the ability to organize the efforts of two or more people so that goals and strategies are accomplished.

Team Productivity- Means the collective amount and quality of work that is accomplished by the team.

Critical Events- Means the things that are most important and necessary for the accomplishment of team goals and strategies.

Momentum- Means the collective forward moving energy and positive progress of the team.

Innovation- Means the extent to which new approaches, ideas, and processes are developed by the team.

Measurement- Means insights from significant data that accurately reflect current position and progress.

Individual Productivity- Means the amount of personal accomplishment of individual goals and objectives.

Quality Values Am I A Team Player? Self Assessment is available in individual pen and pencil workbook format, in machine readable Optical Mark reader Form format for group surveys with an aggregate group report, and on line at the Quality Values Server with password entry for corporate work groups.

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