Some sample questions to identify team strengths and development areas are shown below
- Choose two cards from the deck.
Choose Card 1: this should represent your team or organisational working at its best.
Choose Card 2: this should represent your team when things begin to go wrong.
Review the cards chosen by each member
- Ask the team members to then consider the following questions and report back their responses.
• What does the selection of cards tell us about the strengths of the team?
• When working successfully, what is the team like?
• In this situation, what are the behaviours that are being adopted by individuals?
• When people ‘play to their strengths’, how does the team feel?
• What does the selection of cards tell us about the potential failings of the team?
• When working under pressure or ineffectively, what is the team like?
• In this situation, what are the behaviours that are being adopted by individuals?
• Under these circumstances, what is needed to raise team morale and effectiveness?
This opens a discussion into how the team can work towards more of the positive behaviours and fewer of the negative ones.
