Acumen Team Skills (TSK)

Acumen Team Skills is a multi-rater feedback system that provides team members with in-depth, developmental feedback on their task and interpersonal skills. TSK supports team building initiatives by specifying for individual members the skills on which they should focus to enhance their own effectiveness as well as that of their team.

Audience: Appropriate for members of self-managing work groups, project teams, and cross-functional teams

Most Frequently Used for:

• Enabling team members to compare how they see themselves to how they are viewed by others (including people within or outside their team)
• Providing team members with feedback of the quality of their task and interpersonal skills and the relative importance of those skills
• Setting priorities for the development of specific skills for individual members as well as the team as a whole
• Monitoring the personal and skill development efforts of team members

Time Required: 15-30 minutes to complete the inventory

Format: Online

Feedback Provided: Respondents are provided with feedback on the quality of their team skills, normed against scores for others, and the relative importance of those skills. Self versus others results are provided for various sub-skills in the areas of Communication, Working with Others, Task Focus and Business Values.

Presentation of Results: An in-depth and personalised feedback report is developed for each team member. Survey results in each of the major skill areas are plotted on separate bar charts. For example, the Working with Others chart summarises results for Relationship Skills, Cooperation, Networking, Handling Disagreement, and Feedback & Coaching.

Associated Outcomes: Research shows that the team skills as assessed by co-workers are related to individual team members’ effectiveness as evaluated by their superiors. For example, an individual’s effectiveness at accomplishing tasks is linked to his/her Initiative, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Organising Work, Developing Expertise, and Quality Improvement skills (but much less strongly associated with relationship skills). More generally, different team skill areas are related to different aspects of effectiveness, confirming the importance of measuring multiple skill areas.

Research and Development by: The Acumen Research & Development Team

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