Where to Start? Ask the Team.

Voice of the Team™

A powerful first step for a focused, efficient, and effective team development engagement

Before you embark on any team development engagement, it’s critical to determine which areas of team functioning the engagement should focus on.

• Which strengths do you wish to reinforce and build upon?

• Which challenges are most pressing?

• Where does it make sense to begin, and how might your focus evolve over time?

Addressing these essential questions up front—with well-designed, skillful inquiry—helps to ensure that you’ll make the best possible use of the team’s time and achieve meaningful and sustainable results. The Corentus Voice of the Team assessment does just that.

This assessment, which may be conducted through online reporting, live interviews, or a combination of the two, is grounded in our three time-tested team frameworks: the Team Wheel™, Team Life Cycle, and Team Operating Modes™.

At a minimum, the assessment can incorporate the experiences and perspectives of the full team, including the team leader. Then can the team make informed, collective decisions about what to focus on in their developmental journey.

Is It Relevant for Your Team?
Over the past 10 years, our assessment process has been utilized, adapted, and refined through application with hundreds of teams worldwide. The Voice of the Team is extensive in scope and highly customizable. The majority of clients find that it incorporates all their areas of interest, and more; they customize the assessment by omitting selected segments that are of lower relevance to them. It’s also possible to insert new segments to address additional aspects of your team that you wish to explore further.

What Is the Impact?
Many clients tell us that simply hearing the results of their Voice of the Team assessment has a powerful impact. Team members often report a strong sense of validation—not just from hearing perceptions of their team’s strengths, but from learning that their colleagues share concerns and aspirations similar to their own, which had previously gone unspoken. Even the process of giving input can be a rich learning experience, particularly when live interviews are used. Introduction to the Corentus frameworks provides a clear common language to understand team development, team interactions, and team performance.

This tends to trigger new insights, such as…

“We’re called a team, but now I think we function more like a group”;
“We’re missing the core of the Team Wheel—a clear common purpose and goals—so it’s no wonder that we’ve never fully come together as a team”;
or “I’ve seen the recent conflict as a sign that our team is regressing, but it all makes sense if we’re moving from Forming to Storming.”

Of course, another important outcome of this assessment is greater clarity on focus areas and goals for the remainder of the team development engagement. Depending on the team’s needs and interests, identified focus areas can be addressed through a combination of training, facilitation, consulting, and/or team coaching.

Here is a short list of focus areas commonly identified by our clients:

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