How healthy are your team dynamics?
The PATH assessment gives an opportunity to highlight the strengths and challenges of the team, as well as provide suggestions for improving the effectiveness of their relationships and work. The PATH assessment tool is like having a health checkup, which we all need periodically. This tool is built around the 7 Dimensions of a Healthy Team.
7 Dimensions of a Healthy Team
1. Team Commitment: A team culture where members feel a strong commitment to the team.
2. Diversity: A team culture that values diversity, which is measured in many different ways, most overtly in personality.
3. Communication: A team culture where members have the ability to share, respond, critique, and receive feedback.
4. Conflict Resolution: A team culture that creatively and constructively works through conflict toward appropriate resolution.
5. Leadership: A team culture where appropriate leadership is understood and exercised.
6. Decision Making: A team culture where the team has the ability to identify, process, and implement decisions.
7. Trust & Openness: A team culture of transparency, vulnerability, and safety.
Your Team Will Leave With:
An individual report, which includes your own view of team health and a combined view of team health.
Four hours of facilitated team debriefing and planning around assessment results.
A facilitated and enhanced overview of your team’s health status.
Identified areas of wellness/health, as well as action steps for team growth.
A facilitated prioritization of areas to work on as a team moving forward.
An agreed upon team plan for growth.
When to do a PATH Assessment
At the startup:
If the team wants to be healthy in each of the 7 dimensions of PATH, they need to know what they are aiming toward. At some point during the first 1–3 months, the team is introduced to the 7 definitions used in PATH.
At each 1-year mark:
Since the team knows that they are aiming toward being healthy in these 7 areas, they will be interested in measuring and finding out how they are doing along the way. Near the 1-year point (annually), each team member and the team leader(s) take the PATH assessment. Arrangements are then made for the PATH debriefing to take place within the next month, either onsite or via Skype.
Before ending:
Since finishing well is also valuable to team life, team members should explore ways that this can happen in healthy and productive ways. Approximately 6 months prior to dissolving the team, each team member and the team leader(s) take the PATH assessment. Arrangements are then made for the PATH debriefing to take place within the next month, either onsite or via Skype.
How Does it Work?
Once team members and leader(s) take the assessment, each one will receive their individual results. This shows them where, as individuals, they have measured the team health and compares it to where the team, as a whole, sees their team health.
Then, you’ll meet online or onsite with a See Beyond PATH Certified Coach to explore the overall healthy and unhealthy areas of team life, as highlighted in the combined group results—resulting in a picture of team health.
Available online and onsite
Costs:
Teams of 3–6
$595 for 4 hours of PATH Debriefing (Standard)
$395 for 4 hours of PATH Debriefing (Non-profit)
Teams of 7–12
$895 for 4 hours of PATH Debriefing (Standard)
$595 for 4 hours of PATH Debriefing (Non-profit)