Acumen® Team Skills is a multi-rater Feedback tool for stimulating and guiding the professional development of team members.
Team Skills (TSK) provides individuals with in-depth information about how they perceive themselves and how others see them in their work environment. TSK supports team building initiatives by specifying for individual members the skills on which they should focus to enhance their own effectiveness as well as that of their team. Composite reports, which combine feedback results for two or more individuals, are also available. The assessment is taken online and requires 30 minutes to complete (paper assessment forms are also available).
Audience: Individual contributors, members of self-managing work groups, project teams, and cross-functional teams.
Most Frequently Used for:
- Enabling team members to compare how they see themselves to how they are viewed by others (including people within or outside their team)
- Providing team members with feedback on the quality of their task and interpersonal skills and the relative importance of those skills
- Setting priorities for the development of specific skills for individual members, as well as the team as a whole
- Monitoring the personal and skill development efforts of team members
Presentation of Results: An in-depth and personalized feedback report, averaging about 60 pages, is developed for each team member. Survey results in each of the major skill areas are plotted on separate bar charts. The report includes the following major sections: Overview of Your Work Skills, Skill Area Detail, Breakout of Item Results from Different Raters, and Comments from Co-Workers.
Associated Outcomes: Research shows that the team skills as assessed by co-workers are related to individual team members’ effectiveness as evaluated by their superiors. For example, an individual’s effectiveness at accomplishing tasks is linked to his/her Initiative, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Organizing Work, Developing Expertise, and Quality Improvement skills (but much less strongly associated with Relationship Skills). More generally, different team skill areas are related to different aspects of effectiveness, confirming the importance of measuring multiple skill areas.