Team Questionnaires
Thornhill offers two standard questionnaires for teams.
An entirely different approach to 360° feedback, involving feedback within the team only, is to complete the Thornhill Team Performance Review. We also have a version for virtual teams.
This questionnaire enables work teams to review how effectively they are operating as a team and also to provide feedback to each other on their typical contributions to the team process and the roles they play. It thus combines three inputs that teams find useful:
– Review of team effectiveness
– Team roles
– Individual behavioural feedback
This is designed specifically for use within teams and is different from individual 360° feedback, although it does include individual feedback on team roles and contributions.
Members of the team complete a questionnaire in which they review the effectiveness of the team as a whole, followed by open-ended comments on each member and then three tables to identify what behaviours and roles each member contributes. Each member receives a personal report which contains a shared section covering the team’s performance as a whole, plus a private section describing how team members viewed that team member’s role and contribution.
The Thornhill facilitator then takes the team through a two-hour process in which each member’s profile is discussed, feedback clarified, and connections made to how well the group functions when working together, after which the team is helped to identify action steps for how the team can function more effectively in the future.
This approach is focused on how the team operates as a group and does not include feedback on performance from others outside the team. It is helpful when effective team-work is required.
The steps are typically:
- Members complete one questionnaire online in which they give feedback to all other members of the team
- The team meets with the facilitator to receive their reports and conduct the review described above.
This is a shortened version of the Team Performance Review and only provides feedback on the team as a whole, so it is a quicker and more cost-effective option.
This short survey enables teams as a whole to improve their performance by assessing key aspects of team effectiveness. It can be run by a coach in the room, or it can be completed in advance. Team members reflect and provide feedback on how effectively the team functions as a whole and creates the basis for a constructive conversation about how the team might improve their functioning.
Team members are invited to rate the effectiveness of the team on a 7-point scale against key aspects, such as having clear goals, making decisions, getting things done, feedback, communication, and problem solving, as well as external support.
Thornhill recommends that the assessment is followed by a facilitated team discussion which generates agreed actions to be taken by the team to improve their performance.
A Team Development Plan template is provided. This includes questions for the team to consider when discussing the contents of the report and how it may wish to use this feedback to improve its functioning and development going forward.
A template is also included for the team to consider how they wish to help individual members achieve their learning goals for development.