Quick Question: How healthy is our team?
Quick Question
Here is today's quick question for you...How healthy is our team?
Ask it when you're...
Ready to guide your team to the next level - Patrick Lencioni, of 5 Dysfunctions of a Team fame, suggests there are 4 traits of team health - Build Trust, Master Conflict, Achieve Commitment and Embrace Accountability. How does your team measure up?
Checking in on your team’s well-being - this is a great prompt to open up a conversation about health and well-being across the team. It can be used in 1-1s and in group settings too.
Reviewing your risk register - This question can open the door to ensuring that burnout, stress and retention of key personnel are all included in your regular risk assessments.
Listen for...
Does your organisation have a set of criteria to measure health? Do your values indicate what it means to be healthy at your company? These would be a good place to start.
Try to listen for:
Stories about activity - What are your team telling you about what they are doing (or not) to look after their health and well-being?
Stories about interactions - what are your team telling you about the way they work together (or don’t)?
Absences - whether physical or emotional, absence is a key indicator that you might have an emerging problem.
This question is a gateway to understanding your people as individuals and your team as a collective.
Follow up with...
Sometimes, the greatest value comes from the one extra question you take the time to ask.
In this situation, you could try…
What does being a healthy team mean to you?
When are you/we at our most/least healthy?
What change would be most beneficial to our team health?
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