Team Effectiveness Assessment
Side chats after the meeting. Missed deadlines. Quiet tension.
If your team’s not aligned, your strategy won’t stick — no matter how talented they are.
Group success isn’t just about individual skill.
Team dynamics, collaboration, and shared leadership practices determine your collective impact — and directly affect business performance.
At Executive 360° Coaching, we guide organizations across Austin and Central Texas through the Collective Leadership Assessment® (CLA) — a powerful team effectiveness tool designed to surface team potential, strengthen culture, and drive measurable results.
Why Assess Collective Leadership Effectiveness?
A team’s effectiveness can either drive company success — or quietly hold it back.
When a team is out of sync, one rock-star member is not going to get the rhythm back. It takes shared insight and buy-in to get everyone moving together again.
The CLA goes beyond individual reviews to show how your team leads together:
Measures how the team operates together
Reveals the gap between current functioning and collective potential
Uncovers patterns that impact trust, engagement, and decision-making
Identifies culture-shaping strengths and shared growth edges
When teams gain this kind of clarity, they grow faster — and more effectively — together.
Have you ever been here? We have.
Team Tension to Team Trust
The leadership team had all the right people — smart, experienced, mission-aligned. But meetings had turned quiet. Cautious. Tense. Side conversations happened after the fact. Decisions got delayed or derailed.
When the third missed deadline, the CEO finally said,
“We’re not acting like a team — we’re behaving like a bunch of competitors, each protecting his own turf.”
It wasn’t about talent. It was a trust breakdown.
A Full-Circle Approach to Organizational Leadership Development
What the Collective Leadership Assessment Measures
Just like our 360 degree assessment, the CLA assesses leadership across two critical dimensions:
Creative Competencies: Measures strengths like collaboration, strategic thinking, courageous authenticity, and systems awareness.
Reactive Tendencies: Identifies protective patterns like control, compliance, and distance that hinder innovation and agility.
This isn’t just about metrics — it’s about revealing the behaviors shaping your culture.
Giving your team the language and insight to have breakthrough conversations.
When Is the Right Time for a Team Effectiveness Assessment?
The CLA delivers powerful insights — but timing matters.
These are some of the most strategic moments to pause, assess, and realign your team —>
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Organizations committed to long-term growth use the CLA to build leadership capacity across the team — preparing the next generation of leaders.
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When teams struggle with trust, accountability, or innovation, the CLA pinpoints the patterns beneath the surface.
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Before expansions, mergers, or high-stakes initiatives, the CLA helps ensure your leadership culture can handle the complexity.
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Rapidly growing, cross-functional, or newly formed teams benefit from clear insight into how they operate — together.
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If you're aiming to shift toward more collaboration, agility, or innovation, the CLA shows which collective habits are helping — or holding you back.
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Whether it’s a restructure, new leadership, or rapid scaling, the CLA aligns teams so they can adapt and succeed together.
How the Collective Leadership Assessment Works
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Step One: Readiness Check
The Collective Leadership Assessment isn’t just a report — it’s a guided process that turns data into direction.
We work with you and your team through three strategic phases. This is the first.
Before launching the CLA, we make sure the timing is right.
That means confirming senior buy-in, surfacing any hidden tensions, and ensuring the team is stable enough to reflect honestly.
This step protects your investment — because when teams feel safe and supported, the insights go deeper and land stronger.
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Step Two: Tune the Instruments
Each team member completes a research-backed survey — but it’s more than a performance review.
They’re asked to imagine how they wish the team was operating… and then rate how things are actually going.
It’s part songwriting session, part dress rehearsal: an honest look at the gap between aspiration and reality.
The result? A shared, aggregated view of how the team leads together — creatively and reactively — with insight that sets the stage for breakthrough growth.
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Step Three: Set the Stage for the Next Step
We don’t just drop the mic and holler, “Goooood niiiight, Austin!”
We take you to the encore.
Once the results are in, we come back together for a facilitated session where your team can dig deep — not just to hear the feedback, but to make sense of it. You’ll interpret the data together, uncover what really matters, and identify growth priorities that feel honest, energizing, and actionable.
From there, we co-create a development strategy tailored to your team, your goals, and your rhythm.
A Flexible Assessment, Built for Real-World Team Dynamics
Tailored Solutions for Your Organization
No two teams are the same — and your assessment shouldn’t be, either.
The CLA is designed to meet teams where they are, whether you’re tuning up one department or evaluating leadership culture across the org.
Here’s how we flex the format:
Self-Assessment: When a single team wants to grow together, this format reveals how they see themselves — and what’s getting in the way of peak performance.
Team-to-Team Assessment: Sometimes, insight comes from outside the circle. This format allows one group (like Operations or HR) to assess another (like the Executive Team), revealing cross-functional dynamics that shape results.
Organization-Wide Assessment: For a full-scope view of your leadership culture, we assess teams across the org and provide breakout reports by department, function, or leadership tier.
Whether you’re checking in with one group or taking the pulse across your organization, we’ll help you pick the right format — and make the most of the insight.
From Insight to Action
How Teams Turn Awareness into Lasting Growth
The CLA isn’t just an insightful report — it’s the first draft of your team’s next great hit.
At Executive 360° Coaching, we help teams take that insight and turn it into movement.
Together, through team coaching, we’ll:
Pinpoint the out-of-tune patterns holding your team back
Customize learning experiences using our Leadership System®
Facilitate dynamic, real-world workshops designed to shift behavior where it counts
Workshop topics can include:
Courageous Conversations
Relationship Barriers
Assumption Challenges
Creating a Culture of Accountability
Sessions are typically delivered every 4–6 weeks — giving your team time to reflect, apply, and practice between sessions.
Because this isn’t about checking a box. It’s about building a stronger, more connected team that’s ready for what’s next.
Leadership isn’t solo work. It’s a shared rhythm.
Let’s help your team move better — together.
At Executive 360° Coaching, we help Austin-based teams move from mis-attunement to momentum with expert-led assessments and custom-designed development pathways that stick.