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Prepared for Jennifer B. | Delivered April 8, 2020
Team Health
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Goals
To understand how to define "team health".
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Early Findings
One
study
defines team health as, "employees’ shared perceptions of the extent to which their team is concerned, cares, and communicates about health issues."
It generally has five components, "
subjective general health
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Another
expert
has slightly broader elements in mind when defining team health. They give seven components: shared vision, aligned responsibilities, open-mindedness, being relational known, professionally trusted, shared accountability and everyone speaks.
One
engineering company
did an employee survey to discover that people felt that team health generally broken down into six categories: management, software, culture, focus on value, effective delivery and self-determination.
Jay Simons
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conducts health checks using simple traffic light surveys on support, teamwork, pawns v players, mission, health of
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, suitable process, delivering value, learning, speed, easy to release and fun. Their teams will do the health check 2-4x a year.
One consultant took Spotify's health check and
reformatted
it to 11 topics more generally applicable to all types of companies. These topics are trust & safety, dependability, purpose, delivering value, team autonomy, teamwork, continuously improve, decisions, sustainable pace, feedback and integrity.
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