Team Development & Performance
Tools for building and improving team functioning
19 tools in this category
- 5 Dysfunctions (Lencioni) — The five dysfunctions of a team, stacked from absence of trust up to inattention to results.
- Accountability — Separates responsibility, authority and accountability itself to find exactly where the gap actually sits.
- Actee — A digital leadership simulation where you make change-management decisions and live with the consequences, then debrief.
- Belbin Team Roles — Nine natural team roles; map what a team over-supplies and what it lacks.
- CCL Psychological Safety — Plot a team on safety against standards to see if it's stuck in Anxiety, Apathy or Comfort rather than Learning.
- Communities of Practice — Wenger's domain-community-practice model for growing a learning group instead of running one-off training.
- Corporate Maze — A trial-and-error grid exercise where the debrief, not the puzzle, is the point - who led, who went silent.
- Culture — Schein's three layers of culture - artefacts, espoused values, underlying assumptions - target the deepest one.
- DAC (Direction-Alignment-Commitment) — Checks leadership by outcome, not style - do people agree the direction, are they aligned, are they committed.
- FIRO-B — Score three interpersonal needs - inclusion, control, affection - across what you express and what you want.
- Psychological Contracts — Surface the unwritten expectations between employer and employee before they quietly break.
- Psychological Safety (Leader Slides) — A leader-facing deck: plot your team on safety versus standards and name the zone you're creating.
- Psychological Safety (Team Slides) — A team workshop: survey your safety, agree norms together, and appoint someone to call out when you break them.
- Psychological Safety Leadership Template — A leader's template: name three of your own behaviours that kill safety, and run a 30-day experiment.
- Q12 — Twelve Gallup questions that turn team engagement from a feeling into a specific, trackable score.
- Removing Roadblocks for High Performance — Sort what's actually blocking performance - belief, skill, structure, or relationship - before you fix it.
- Rockefeller Habits / Scaling Up — Ten execution habits that keep a growing company disciplined once it's too big to run on instinct.
- Team Building — Two short exercises that surface how a team actually works, so the pattern is visible enough to talk about.
- Through the Looking Glass — CCL's Looking Glass, Inc. simulation: a half-day in-tray exercise that surfaces real leadership habits under pressure, for direct feedback.