Building Extraordinary Teams Diagnostic

Great teams don't happen by accident

Why it Matters

Organisational performance hinges on collective team performance. Unfortunately, the natural state of a team is dysfunction. To avoid this fate teams need to systematically work on the team, not just work as a team.

Over the past decade plus, Shaun Kenny and Michelle Rushton (co-founders of the Influence Engine platform) have worked with hundreds of teams and collected thousands of team data points. From this we've learned: to improve team performance you need to deepen Relationships (build trust, cultivate candour) and drive Results (get aligned, execute together).

What it Measures

The Building Extraordinary Teams Diagnostic is like a 360 on the team itself where every team member, including the team leader, answers the questions. The output is a collective team profile. This shared starting point is what makes the conversations that follow productive: everyone is working from the same evidence, not just their own perspective.

Relationships Results
Candour
Practise Candour
  • Speak Up with Compassionate Candour
  • Contribute Equally
Encourage Candour
  • Invite Participation
  • Respond Well
Execution
Think
  • Decision Making
  • Problem Solving
Do
  • Collaboration
  • Accountability
Trust
Personal Trust
  • Know each other
  • Help each other
Professional Trust
  • Capability
  • Reliability
Alignment
Strategic Alignment
  • Why (Purpose)
  • What (Goals & Priorities)
Operational Alignment
  • Who (Roles & Responsibilities)
  • How (Plans & Ways of Working)
DecisionMaking 47 ProblemSolving 69 Collaboration 69 Accountability 80 How (Plans &Ways of Working) 68 Who (Roles &Responsibilities) 84 What (Goals& Priorities) 82 Why(Purpose) 75 Knoweach other 79 Helpeach other 56 Capability 78 Reliability 67 Speak Up withCompassionateCandour 64 ContributeEqually 43 InviteParticipation 62 RespondWell 67 Execution Alignment Trust Candour RELATIONSHIPS RESULTS ACTION Take action FOUNDATION Build the foundations 59 67 70 77
What you get
Diagnostic report
For the leader and the team
  • Report – a beautifully presented, clear, detailed and practical report accessed through the Influence Engine portal (or exported to PDF)
  • Future state – a clear vision of what great looks like
  • Current state – a precise, granular picture of current team performance on the dimensions of Trust, Candour, Alignment and Execution
  • Gap – identification of priority areas for improvement
  • Leader support – a separate report specifically for the team leader with insights into their own leadership behaviours and how they can implement the report's findings
  • Insight – AI-powered insight informed by benchmarking data and personalised to your profile
  • Roadmap – specific behavioural development priorities for increasing Trust, Candour, Alignment, Execution
  • Reinforcement – periodic behavioural nudges delivered to every team member to reinforce and encourage specific, practical, continuous improvements
  • Monitor and Track – the opportunity to re-do the diagnostic 3-6 months later to track progress and develop a new roadmap
Dashboard
For the organisation
  • Clarity – a clear, beautifully presented dashboard depicting patterns across your teams (individual identifiers removed)
  • Current state – see the spread of team behaviours and their impacts at a glance
  • Trends – track behavioural trends over time: the shifts in team behaviours and team performance
  • Insight – AI-powered insight informed by benchmarking data and personalised to this cohort
  • Roadmap – development priorities across your teams, and the actions the organisation and executive can take
Leadership Teams
17 teams across the org
⚠ Low Relationships
Relationships58
Trust68
Candour48
Results77
Alignment73
Execution81
Key pattern: these teams execute and deliver results, but relationships lag — and it's candour dragging them down. Trust is solid; building candour is the lever with the most headroom.
What you also get
Guidance from experts

Each team profile is debriefed by either Shaun Kenny or Michelle Rushton in a group workshop setting, usually a team offsite.

Shaun and Michelle are co-founders of the Influence Engine platform and the leadership consultancy People of Influence. For over sixteen years, they have been working closely with executives and their teams in the trenches (ahem, boardrooms), helping them solve their most difficult leadership challenges. They have worked across the globe with many of the world's great companies.

This diagnostic is perfect for a team offsite and can be paired with People of Influence workshops such as the Building Extraordinary Teams workshop, Cultivating Compassionate Candour and the facilitation of team alignment sessions. If you want to supercharge the ROI of this diagnostic, pairing it with the live facilitation and coaching is a must.

Shaun Kenny
Shaun Kenny
Co-Founder, People of Influence & Influence Engine
Michelle Rushton
Michelle Rushton
Co-Founder, People of Influence & Influence Engine
Who's it for

There are actually four different Building Extraordinary Teams questionnaires depending on the type of team it is for. Each questionnaire shares 80% of the same universally applicable questions and 20% which are tailored to that specific team type.

Executive Teams Leadership Teams Functional Teams Operational Teams
How it Works
Assessment Sources
Team Leader
Team Members
Team Leader
Team
Team members
Two ways to work with us

Influence Engine is the platform for diagnostics, dashboards, roadmaps and AI insights.

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People of Influence is the consultancy through which Michelle Rushton and Shaun Kenny deliver leadership development programs, team offsites and facilitate impactful conferences.

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