This Team Development Assessment measures your team’s behavioral norms. It is a developmental tool, not a performance evaluation. Think of it like a routine medical check‑up. All responses remain anonymous. Individual answers cannot be traced back to any single person.
This assessment measures eight key behaviors across the four 4‑D dimensions. Each behavior includes:
1 A brief explanation of why this behavior matters for team performance. 2 A clear performance standard that defines “meeting the standard.” 3 Rating choices for how well your team meets that standard. Please evaluate your team’s typical day‑to‑day behavioral norms , not best‑case or worst‑case moments. Answer based on your real‑world observations of how the team actually behaves. Do not answer based on written policies or how you wish the team would behave.
1. Behavior 1: Express Authentic Appreciation
Background text: People name “feeling appreciated” as what they most want at work and in life. Expressing appreciation for others and their contributions meets this need and sustains an atmosphere of mutual respect.
Standard (HAPPS): Our team members appreciate one another Habitually, Authentically, Promptly, Proportionally, and Specifically.
0% Never 25% Seldom 75% Usually 100% Fully
2. Behavior 2: Address Shared Interests
Background text: Addressing shared interests reduces cross‑organizational conflict. It helps us find common ground when working with partners, contractors, or other departments.
Standard: Our team consistently identifies and works from shared interests when dealing with other people or groups.
0% Never 25% Seldom 75% Usually 100% Fully
3. Behavior 3: Appropriately Include Others
Background text: Human beings have a fundamental need to feel included. Good inclusion means seeking others’ opinions and giving people appropriate access to information and conversations.
Standard: Our team appropriately includes relevant people in discussions, listens to their viewpoints, and makes people feel heard.
0% Never 25% Seldom 75% Usually 100% Fully
4. Behavior 4: Keep All Your Agreements
Background text: Keeping agreements builds trustworthiness. Broken agreements damage team trust.
Standard: Our team honors all commitments. When we cannot keep an agreement, we pro‑actively communicate and renegotiate early.
0% Never 25% Seldom 75% Usually 100% Fully
5. Behavior 5: Express Reality‑based Optimism
Background text: Reality‑based optimism means we face hard facts honestly while staying hopeful about what we can create. Denying reality kills creativity.
Standard: Our team faces difficult truths openly and still maintains realistic optimism about our future outcomes.
0% Never 25% Seldom 75% Usually 100% Fully
6. Behavior 6: Be 100 % Committed
Background text: Full outcome commitment shapes how we see possibilities. Partial commitment limits creative solutions.
Standard: Team members show full commitment to agreed‑upon outcomes.
0% Never 25% Seldom 75% Usually 100% Fully
7. Behavior 7: Avoid Blaming & Complaining
Background text: Blaming and complaining trap energy in drama states (victim, rescuer, rationalizer, blamer), instead of taking productive action.
Standard: Our team avoids blaming and complaining. We turn frustrations into concrete requests and actions.
0% Never 25% Seldom 75% Usually 100% Fully
8. Behavior 8: Clarify Roles, Accountability, and Authority (RAA)
Background text: Unclear RAA creates team chaos. Everyone must understand expectations and resources to deliver results.
Standard: Roles, accountability, and authority are clear for every team member.
0% Never 25% Seldom 75% Usually 100% Fully
9. What is the single biggest behavioral strength of our team?
10. What is the single most important change our team could make to improve our performance?