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Periodic team health assessment
To create structured opportunity for the team to assess its own functioning. Use questions that team members respond to individually, followed by collective discussion. Dimensions might include: • Clarity of purpose and goals • Quality of communication • Effectiveness of… An ongoing team scaffold (assessment session), run 2-4 times per year, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 60-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, open-awareness, feedback-mirroring
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (2-4 times per year)
Instructions
- Where
- idg.thomasjordan.se/idg-team-scaffolds-webapp.html — Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Design or adapt assessment questions. Compile results. Facilitate discussion non-defensively. Treat the assessment as information for improvement.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25