What is teamwork?
Teamwork is the set of behaviors that lets interdependent people coordinate: sharing an accurate picture of the work, communicating in closed loops, monitoring progress, and helping the team adapt.
See how reliably you create clarity, coordinate with others, and adapt when the team’s work changes.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does teamwork mean?
Teamwork is the set of behaviors that lets interdependent people coordinate: sharing an accurate picture of the work, communicating in closed loops, monitoring progress, and helping the team adapt.
Why it matters at work
A group of individually capable people can still fail through weak coordination. Strong teamwork makes needs visible early, shifts help to where it is useful, and keeps everyone aligned as conditions change.
What this assessment measures
Alignment & shared picture
Keeping goals, roles, priorities, and constraints visible across the team.
Communication & backup
Closing communication loops, monitoring progress, and helping where workload or risk accumulates.
Trust & adaptation
Raising problems early and adjusting the plan when evidence or conditions change.
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 teamwork foundation
Your answers suggest a few recurring situations where a simple, visible habit could make this skill more reliable.
A developing teamwork pattern
You use this skill in some situations already. Focus on making it dependable when pressure, ambiguity, or disagreement rises.
A strong teamwork pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it in harder situations and pay attention to the dimension that trails the others.
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
Eduardo Salas, Dana E. Sims, and C. Shawn Burke (2005), “Is There a ‘Big Five’ in Teamwork?”, Small Group Research.