A Team Maintenance Checklist
by Sharon Feltham, Excellerate
Even when teams achieve a high level of performance it's important to invest in team maintenance.
Over time changes in market conditions, technology or even team membership can quietly and slowly erode a teams effectiveness. Success too can breed complacency while industry changes, customers expectations and competitor innovations will redefine and raise standards.
Organisations invest a huge amount in improving systems, products and services. A team is a system too, it needs to be maintained to ensure maximum efficiency.
Team Maintenance Checklist
Use the following checklist to assess the need for team maintenance. If you score 6 or more Yes's then it's time to invest in rebuilding your team
| Productivity and morale has declined |
Yes - No |
| Complaints, conflict and disagreements are increasing |
Yes - No |
| Increasing complaints about team leadership |
Yes - No |
| Lack of direction, purpose and commitment to goals |
Yes - No |
| Apathy or lack of interest and involvement by members |
Yes - No |
| Ineffective and inefficient team meetings are common |
Yes - No |
| Insufficient innovation, risk taking, imagination, or initiative. |
Yes - No |
| Working relationships with other teams are unsatisfactory |
Yes - No |
| Lack of coordination and communication between team members and other functions |
Yes - No |
| Lack of trust between members and leaders. People are afraid to speak up. Information is not being shared. |
Yes - No |
| Professional and personal standards have declined with one or more individuals underachieving. |
Yes - No |
| Team has fragmented into cliques with a lack of co-operation between sub groups |
Yes - No |
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