How Independent is Our Team?

Are your self-managing teams confused about how much authority they really have? Don't be surprised if they are. Individual members of self-managing teams often have widely diverse expectations and beliefs about how self-management actually works.
  
Keep your self-managing teams on track with How Independent is Our Team?, an incisive and accurate means of helping your teams clarify the degree to which they currently plan, implement, and evaluate their own work.
  
How Independent is Our Team? measures autonomy along 7 dimensions:

1. Goals
2. Performance
3. Production Method
4. Assigning Tasks
5. Membership
6. Leadership
7. Individual job

Armed with a new understanding of how they function, teams can reflect critically on the need for autonomy given the task, working conditions, and other environmental factors. Used with newly formed self-managing teams or groups that are unsure of their current status, this instrument is an excellent way to stimulate team development through discussion, clarification, and negotiation.