Read each question below and choose YES or NO which best represents your opinion. If you are not certain of your opinion then answer NO. If the question does not apply to your company then answer YES.

1. Business activities often represent uncoordinated follow-through, which occasionally result in the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.
   Yes  NO
2. When decisions are made, some management team members are informed of important decisions, while others remain in the dark.
   Yes  NO
3. Management team meetings deal primarily with the status quo (today, now) and seldom inquire about possible future events (goals, objectives, mission).
   Yes  NO
4. Team members often are confused or poorly informed about "standard operating procedures" and don't know the appropriate methods to initiate action.
   Yes  NO
5. Team members seldom interact with one another while performing their work.
   Yes  No
6. Team members are seldom kept informed about one another's job and department pursuits and activities.
   Yes  No
7. Members of different departments seldom interact and "share ideas."
   Yes  No
8. Is there a perception, at least, that some team members put the goals of their particular department ahead of the goals of the overall organization?
   Yes  No

 INTERPRETATION

TOTAL your "YES" responses.

5 or more YES responses may indicate that the environment is stressful. The potential for conflict is high. Lost productivity is probably occurring.

Recommendation: Team business planning can be a good facilitator of causing the team to work closely together and arrive at "common" goals and solutions. However be careful that a type A personality does not dominate team-planning meetings. Consider Human Resource Training and Development in the areas of interpersonal communications, leading and managing people, teambuilding/group process to facilitate greater cooperation and an understanding of each persons unique behavioral and management style.

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