What is a team barometer?
A team barometer is designed to gauge the health of team dynamics, with a view to building team culture. This health check collects the views of everyone, offering them the opportunity to offer input and feel heard around the dynamics of the team.
Team dynamics are central to the dimensions of a team barometer. Dynamics are important for teams because they come together to achieve a shared goal. The delivery of that goal requires a healthy dynamic between team members because they are the unconscious factors that affect a team’s behavior, performance, and, therefore, success.
Understanding the core dimensions of a team barometer
The team barometer is built around seven dimensions that can be measured and tracked. This health check invites each member of the team to indicate how strongly they agree with seven key statements. The stronger they agree, the stronger the team dynamics.
A team leader can then see how the group feels and talk through what that means for the team. This can be especially helpful for remote teams who may not otherwise have the same opportunity to discuss these factors.
Trust
There is a high level of trust in our team. People can speak their mind freely.
Collaboration
We work together well on issues that come up and can solve complex problems.
Participation
We are engaged and active in our Agile ceremonies and everyone is contributing.
Responsibility
We take ownership of our tasks and actions and can depend on each other to get the job done.
Relationships
We support and boost each other and provide backup and motivation to help each other.
Passion
We take pride in our work and are driven by our work and our outcomes.
Integrity
We behave in a way that demonstrates good decision-making, communication, and respect.
How to create a Health Check in TeamRetro
Your template is ready to go
Under Health Checks, select the health check you’d like to complete. Decide if you want to survey the team anonymously, using aliases or openly.
Reveal and discuss the results
Your health check data is displayed showing the average response and tally of each response. Sort dimensions by most positive, negative or mixed responses to make discussions more meaningful.
Keep conversation on track with Presentation Mode
Switch to presentation mode to sync devices making it easier to facilitate and focus conversations. Capture comments and actions along the way.
Review your action plan
Assign action owners and set due dates for new items and review prior actions. This action list can be tracked, shared or integrated into your other workflow tools.
Share the results
Great work, you are all done! Share the results with your team via email, download and print or publish to tools like Jira, Asana and Trello. Results can be tracked in your dashboard.