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Instructions: Rate your team climate on the 10-point scale below. Circle the number on each scale that best reflects your assessment.
Atmosphere
Is the atmosphere among team members informal, comfortable and open? Is there an absence of obvious tensions?
Formal/tense 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Informal/relaxed
Level of Participation
Are team members involved and interested? Does everyone participate in the discussions?
Bored/withdrawn 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Involved/interested
Focus
Does the discussion remain pertinent to the task or topic that the team has met to address? If the discussion gets off the subject, does someone in the team bring it back on task quickly? Offtask/offtopic 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Ontask/ontopic
Goal Centered
Are the tasks and objectives of the team well understood and accepted by the members?
Poorly understood/ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Well understood/ accepted
Listening Skills
Do the members of the team listen to each other? Is each idea considered, or is there a jump from one idea to another unrelated idea?
Membersdon’t 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Memberslisten
listen
Risk Taking
Are team members willing to contribute unpopular or extreme ideas, ask “dumb” questions, or take other kinds of initiatives that involve risk?
Avoidrisks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Takerisks
Managing Conflict
Are group members comfortable with conflict, or do they void it? Do they examine the reasons for a disagreement in order to resolve it, or do they suppress or override disagreements by going ahead with team action?
Avoidconflict 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Faceconflict
Consensus
Are decisions made in such a way that the members of the team can commit themselves to them? Do those who oppose an action voice their opposition to ensure that the consensus reached is genuine rather than apparent?
Nogenuine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Consensussought
consensus achieved
Assignments
Are out of meeting assignments done on time and shared with the team in a concise and clear manner?
Assignments rarely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Assignments always
done on time
done on time
Having Fun
Are team members having fun during the team meetings and while doing “out of meeting assignments”?
Nothavingfun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Havingfun
Total Score: _______ out of 100 Previous Score: _______ out of 100
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