Outside Angle

Team Health Check

How healthy is your team, really?

Eighteen questions, about five minutes. A quick, honest read on the six areas where most of the internal barriers to team performance live, adapted from the Organizational Health Diagnostic we use with clients.

  • 18 statements
  • About 5 minutes
  • Answers stay in your browser

Think about your organization (or your team, if that’s the scope that matters most right now) and rate how much you agree with each statement.

Vision clarity and consistency

The vision for the organization and its core work is clear and shared, and leaders communicate the work through that frame.

1. The purpose and mission of our organization are widely understood across the team.
2. The team clearly understands a shared multi-year vision for the organization.
3. The team is aligned around six-month goals linked to that vision, and those goals guide what people focus on.

Process effectiveness

Information flows, decisions are timely, and the way the team does important things is clear and repeatable, without being heavier than it needs to be.

4. Information flows effectively through the organization.
5. Our current meeting structure and cadence is working well.
6. Decisions are being made on time and in the right places.

Trust and relationships

Trust is present, the culture is clear, behavior matches values, and feedback flows honestly in every direction.

7. Trust is present within our organization.
8. People feel psychologically safe: everyone feels welcome to share their perspective.
9. Feedback flows honestly and effectively in multiple directions.

Problem solving

Problems are named early, framed clearly, and worked on together, without being ignored or turning into constant firefighting.

10. We know the most important issues we are trying to solve right now.
11. Everyone feels comfortable and responsible for raising issues as they come up.
12. We have the right tools and containers to solve problems together, like dedicated leadership time or an issues list.

Management

Managers build trust, delegate, coach, have hard conversations, and advocate for their people, carrying context in both directions.

13. Managers are coaching and developing others effectively.
14. Managers are delegating effectively.
15. Managers are engaging in difficult conversations effectively.

Sustainable performance and impact

Impact and culture are measured, progress is reviewed on a regular rhythm, and the whole team stays aligned as priorities evolve.

16. We have effective ways of measuring our impact.
17. We have effective ways of measuring the health of our culture.
18. We have clear structures in place to monitor progress and adjust course.

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Go deeper

The full diagnostic, with your leadership team.

This check is one person’s snapshot. The full Organizational Health Diagnostic goes further: more questions, room for comments, and responses from across your leadership team, so you can see where perspectives line up and where they don’t. It also looks at balance, because a domain can be dialed up too far as well as too low. We use it to start our partnerships, so the first conversation is about your organization, not ours.

Ask about the full diagnostic