Team Health Check
The Team Health Check (THC) empowers teacher leaders to affirm, shift or change their beliefs on how they can foster greater interdependence amongst team members to pursue transformative teaching and learning goals.
The answer to these questions isn’t for you, the team leader, to answer. These questions need to be answered as a team. The question that is most important for the team leader to consider is, “How do I facilitate a discussion about improving team performance?”
What is a Team Health Check?
The ‘Team Health Check’ has been carefully designed to pinpoint specific areas for fostering greater interdependency within any Team. Its comprehensive nature, involving quick and easy responses to 156 one-line statements, which are organized into 13 categories of evaluation for team performance.
Ewen Bailey
Shares his school’s experience of using the Team Health Check for all of their middle leaders while he was the Director of Professional Learning at Suzhou Singapore International School
These 13 key performance categories are:
1. Balanced roles
Each team member understands their role and level of authority
Agreed clarity around your reasons to exist as a team, namely; why you do what you do. Click here to self-assess your team against this category.
3. Openness, trust, and conflict resolution
Placing transparency and honesty at the forefront of all team decisions and conversations, and knowing how to solve any issues
4. Interpersonal communication and relationships
Negative interactions between team members can create flow-on effects throughout the team and organisation, but these can be avoided through clear communication and healthy relationships
5. Individual and team learning and development
Knowledge is the key to growth, and there should be a continual desire to learn and grow for every member
6. Inter-group relations and communications
Being able to connect and communicate effectively with other various groups and organisations
7. Appropriate management and leadership
The pinnacle of a great team is the person/s leading it
8. Effective Team procedures
Recognising the procedures that work, and being able to fix those that don’t
9. Output, performance, quality and accountability
Ensuring every team member is performing to a predetermined standard and the team is realizing its purpose
10. Morale
A high level of enthusiasm and confidence is necessary for an effective, positive team
11. Empowerment
Allowing team members to feel strong and sure about their role
12. Change, creativity and challenge the status quo
Being able to evolve as a team, challenging the way things have been done in favour of a better way
13. Decision-making and problem solving
When problems arise, it’s important to be able to solve them in a fast, effective manner
How clear is your team’s purpose?
Schools that had leaders recently complete this consultation:
The information within the THC report will enable you, together with your team, to take positive, purposeful actions in the areas that are likely to generate the greatest return on investment in terms of your leadership development, which is critical to ensuring the success of the school as a whole.
Key Benefits
Teams that have used the tool report significant improvements in team performance, and have summarised some of the benefits as:
