Team Effectiveness
The Diagnostic Process: Building Insight for Targeted Team Development
At ORCA, we approach team development with a commitment to understanding each team’s unique dynamics. Our diagnostic process involves selecting the right assessment tools or diagnostics to evaluate communication styles, trust levels, alignment, psychological safety, and more.
These insights enable us to design interventions that target specific growth areas, helping teams build resilience, foster collaboration, and drive results.
We will carry out insightful discovery interviews as needed to understand more about current team dynamics and the desired future.
Unlock Your Team Potential
Increased Productivity and Efficiency
Enhanced Innovation and Problem-Solving
Improved Employee Engagement and Satisfaction
Greater Agility and Adaptability
Better Decision-Making and Trust
Team Assessment Tools
Each of our team assessments is crafted to address specific elements of team development—from building trust to enhancing communication and accountability. Explore our offerings to find the right tool for your team’s unique needs
TTI Team Assessement
- Measures: Behavioral and motivational dynamics within teams, based on DISC and Driving Forces frameworks.
- Audience: Teams at all levels.
- Uses: TTI Team Assessment helps teams understand each member’s behavioral style and motivators, improving communication and collaboration. This tool is widely used in team-building sessions, conflict resolution, and enhancing interpersonal dynamics.
Team Elements
- Measures: 14 elements of Team dynamics, interpersonal relationships, and collective performance indicators.
- Audience: Teams
- Uses: Team Elements Coaching experience is a deep dive into your team’s effectiveness. Perfect for leadership teams, executive teams, and business-critical team problems that need powerful, data-proven, customized, and human-centered.
Leadership Circle Team Assesment
- Measures: Collective leadership effectiveness within teams. Measure the current state of Leadership vs the desired state of leadership.
- Audience: Leadership.
- Uses: Can be used at the team, divisional or organizational level. Help the team to understand the gaps between their current leadership effectiveness and desired future state.
BRITE by Leadership Circle
- Measures: 5 elements of team effectiveness, mindset, structure, psychological safety, cohesion processes, leadership, and, performance skills
- Audience: Leadership Teams.
- Uses: Brite is designed to support leadership growth by providing focused insights into strengths and areas for improvement. It establishes a clear language and pathway to higher levels of team effectiveness and examines generative and disruptive influences on the flow of energy in the team.
IEQ9 (Integrative Enneagram Questionnaire)
- Measures: Personality type, emotional patterns, and behavioral tendencies across nine Enneagram types.
- Audience: Individuals, leaders, and teams.
- Uses: IEQ9 helps deepen self-awareness, understand interpersonal dynamics, and improve emotional intelligence. It’s commonly used for personal growth, leadership development, and team building. By identifying underlying motivations and patterns, IEQ9 empowers individuals and teams to work more effectively together.
Lencioni 5 Dysfunctions of a Team Assessment
- Measures: Team dynamics across five key dimensions: trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results.
- Audience: Teams and departments within organizations.
- Uses: Based on Patrick Lencioni’s model, this assessment identifies obstacles to team effectiveness and provides a framework for improvement. It’s especially useful for enhancing collaboration, resolving conflicts, and aligning teams around shared goals. By addressing each of the five dimensions, teams can overcome common dysfunctions and achieve higher performance, making this tool ideal for team development, leadership workshops, and building cohesive, results-driven teams.
CIQ TRUST
- Measures: 5 factors of TRUST: Transparency, Relationships, Understanding, Shared-success and Truth-telling.
- Audience: Leaders and teams.
- Uses: CIQ assessments focus on improving collaboration, fostering trust, and creating productive dialogues within teams. It’s particularly effective for leaders aiming to enhance team communication, reduce misunderstandings, and create a culture of open and effective conversations that drive collective success.
CIQ Culture
- Measures:an organization’s Conversational Intelligence® through and readiness for change through the lenses of culture, relationships and conversations. There are seven dimensions, of culture that are assessed.
- Audience: Teams, leaders, and entire organizations.
- Uses: The CIQ Culture Assessment evaluates how conversations shape an organization’s culture, focusing on trust, transparency, and collaborative potential. It’s used to identify communication patterns that either enhance or hinder team performance, build trust across levels, and create a culture of open dialogue. This assessment is especially valuable for organizations looking to transform their culture, foster alignment, and improve engagement by strengthening communication practices.
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Empowering HR professionals with certifications in DISC, Driving Forces, and Emotional Intelligence creates a powerful foundation for transforming team dynamics and engagement across your organization.
Why is Certification Beneficial for You?
Enhance Team Dynamics
Build A Culture of Engagement and Self-Awareness
Create a Common Language for Development
Drive Lasting Value for the Organization
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