What is team building?
Team building is a set of interventions that improve how a team understands goals, clarifies roles, manages interpersonal relations, and solves shared problems.
Assess whether you strengthen the goals, roles, relationships, and problem-solving processes that help a real team perform.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does team building mean?
Team building is a set of interventions that improve how a team understands goals, clarifies roles, manages interpersonal relations, and solves shared problems.
Why it matters at work
Team building is not synonymous with social events. Meta-analytic evidence supports structured team-building components, but the activity must connect to how the team actually coordinates and performs.
What this assessment measures
Goals & roles
Creating shared outcomes, decision rights, responsibilities, dependencies, and success evidence.
Trust & interaction
Building candid, respectful patterns for asking, disagreeing, giving feedback, and recovering from friction.
Problem solving & learning
Diagnosing shared obstacles, making decisions, practising coordination, and reviewing outcomes.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your team building foundation
Your answers identify situations where one visible practice could make this capability more dependable.
A developing team building pattern
You use this capability in some conditions. Focus on the dimension that becomes least reliable under pressure.
A strong team building pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it against harder work and evidence from people affected.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Cameron Klein, Deborah DiazGranados, Eduardo Salas, Huy Le, C. Shawn Burke, Rebecca Lyons, and Gerald F. Goodwin (2009), “Does Team Building Work?”, Small Group Research.