Team Assessment

ASSESSMENTS

Get rich insights at the individual and group level by benchmarking teams across indicators that underpin team performance.

What is the Business EQ Team Assessment?

The Business EQ Team Assessment is a trait based psychometric assessment that measures the Business Emotional Intelligence of teams and groups. It measures and raises awareness about the underlying emotional and behavioural traits that drive success and performance in teams.

The Business EQ Team Assessment is used worldwide in multiple languages to provides rich insights at the individual and group level, assessing and benchmarking teams across across 6 different performance indicators that underpin team effectiveness and performance & exploring how the management of critical emotions that underpin behaviour

The research and validation worldwide of our Team Assessment started in 2004 with a focus on providing deep insights into the Business EQ behind team dynamics as well the global drivers of team behaviours that predict high performing teams.

The EBW Business EQ Team Compass Diagram

Diagram Above: The EBW Business EQ Team Compass

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A powerful & accurate team diagnostic

The Team Assessment is a powerful diagnostic tool that enables you to get to the root of team dynamics. The assessment takes a 360 approach to benchmarks a team against other teams on 6 important team performance indicators.

Combine with our ‘plug and play’ team toolkit

The Team Assessment can be used together with our mixture of sophisticated "plug and play" team tools, it enables you to create bespoke team workshops and programmes that ensure average teams can become great teams.

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Demonstrate Return On Investment

One of the powerful features of the Team Assessment is it’s ability to be used not only as a diagnostic, but to measure the team before, during and after an intervention to keep a focus on the team‘s pulse and to provide a measure of team performance change.

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Support diversity, equality and inclusion

Our assessments have been underpinned by rigorous research into diversity, individual and group differences as well as being develop into numerous different languages, making them particularly suitable for international applications.

What does the Team Assessment Measure?

The Business EQ Team Assessment provides rich insights at the individual and group level by benchmarking a team across across 6 different performance indicators that underpin team effectiveness:

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Clarity around team vision and purpose

The level to which there is understanding about a team’s purpose and goals.

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Levels of trust within the team

Feelings of confidence about team members’ behaviour and goodwill.

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Team identity, loyalty & accountability

The desire to be part of, and within a team, that works together.

Commitment to the team's goals

The drive and belief in the team’s ability to achieve it’s goals.

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Communication ability - psychological safety

The willingness to collaborate, listen and share ideas.

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Capability to work together

The level of cooperation and participation within the team.

Who uses the Team Assessment?

The team assessment is used by leaders and teams who:

  • Have a team who are under pressure and need to deliver

  • Need to get up to speed quickly with who they have on their new team

  • Have communication issues and personal clashes in their teams or has a dysfunctional team

  • Are struggling with motivation and commitment issues

  • Find decision making difficult

  • Are merging teams that have different cultures

  • Are looking to restructure

  • Want to improve their boards' or teams' performance

Want to use Team Assessments in your business? Become Certified to to use our range of assessments and ‘done for you’ tools and programmes. Alternatively, remove the stress from in-house delivery and find a Certified Partner to deliver Business EQ services for your organisation.

“One of my key drivers was to understand how we could get the best out of each other. I’ve personally seen a real step change in my team since we undertook the training, especially in how they engage with each other. We’ve also seen our time to excellence decrease which has resulted in positive impact to the bottom line.”

- MD Corporate Services, ARM

Extend the team assessment with our Team Toolkit

The Business EQ Team Assessment and reports can be combined with our Team Toolkit so you can quickly and easily design bespoke team programmes and interventions that are suited to a variety of different team challenges.

The Team Toolkit is a ‘plug and play’ system provides all the materials, exercises and programme templates you need to run:

  • Team Discovery Workshops

  • Team Coaching Programmes

  • Executive Team Performance Reviews

The Team Toolkit has been tested with teams at all organisational levels. It has been used all over the world with teams in different industries, cultures & nationalities to improve performance by changing how teams work together.

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Discover our Team Report Options

We offer different report options to help you with what you need. With Business EQ, it’s easy to choose the report option that best suits your needs.

Business EQ Team Advance Report

Business EQ TEAM ADVANCE

Designed to provide a benchmark at the start of a team intervention, this report provides a benchmark on core drivers and a team road map, with colour coded EQ Maps and bespoke pragmatic suggestions for developing a high performing team.

Business EQ Team Standard Report

Business EQ TEAM STANDARD

Perfect as the basis for a Team Discovery Workshop. With clear colour coded EQ Maps under each EQ scale, the feedback empowers teams to take personal responsibility for the emotional behaviours that change how a team work together.

Want to see the EBW team assessment reports? Request your sample reports today

Would you like to see a real copy of of our Team Assessment report options? We would be pleased to send them to you by email - fill in the form to request your sample reports today.

Whats included with our Team Assessment Reports?

Every team report provides a benchmark of a team against other teams and a series of Business Emotional Intelligence Maps showing the impact each member has on colleagues and the performance of the team.

Every team report will provide the following:

  • 27 pages of rich feedback on individual's and group's Emotional Intelligence impact on performance

  • Comparison against other teams

  • Practical bespoke suggestions how to improve the team's performance

  • Insights into blind spots that stop individuals’ and teams’ potential

  • EQ maps to shift individuals’ ability to change emotional behaviour, to improve their own and the team's performance

  • The ability to show ROI with measures of team performance before and after the team intervention, coaching or team programme

“Thank you so much for my report. I've just been going through a really really rough time which has actually caused me to doubt my sanity, so this was very timely, and also very validating. And, I will always encourage people never to underestimate the importance of emotional intelligence and the behavioural consequences. In future, I shall be recommending you wherever I can. Again, many thanks."

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Technical Overview

The EBWt Team assessment was created in 2004 and is an extension of the EBW Business Emotional Intelligence assessment developed by Dr Neil Scott et al in 1997. Based on the EBWt Team Effectiveness model it builds on research and commercial experience of why groups and teams change over time:

  • Experience - Storming, Norming (Tuckman et al)

  • Personality types & team roles (Belbin, MBTI)

  • Process & conditions (Lencioni, Hackman)

It has been examined through behavioural observations, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and as an extension of the EBW has also been underpinned by rigorous research into diversity, individual and group differences as well as being develop into numerous different languages, making it particularly suitable for international applications.

What makes the EBWt team psychometric assessment different from other team questionnaires is not only its positive focus on Business Emotional Intelligence but its ability to measure a change in the core drivers that underpin team performance.

The EBWt unique approach of holding teams to account by benchmarking their performance, while helping them to develop their Emotional Intelligence enables leaders and teams to quickly change the way they work together to improve their performance.

Technical highlights:

  • Our assessments use international 'business' English

  • The assessment is available in multiple languages

  • Avoids age, religion, disability, race and gender and sexuality biases

  • The Business EQ and Team Assessments can be completed in under 30 minutes together

  • It is scored and Individual and Team reports are developed in under 10 minutes

  • It is supported by a wide range of coaching tools and expert reports

You can download more information on the science behind the EBW system as a PDF here.

How Can We Help You?

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