Team Effectiveness Using the
Scaled Comparison
The Scaled Comparison uses the following format to compare various team values and activities:
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Which better describes the way your work group or team functions currently? |
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Each team member is presented with many decisions like this. On one page, each issue is compared with each other issue in many different ways. The first question deals with how the group is functioning currently. The following illustration shows how some of those decisions would look.
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Which better describes the way your work group or team functions currently? |
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On the second page, the process repeats itself with a different question, concerning "How the team ought to function". The same issues appear on this page as on the first, only they are paired in different ways than before. This question is intended to determine how the members feel the group is strong or in need of improvement. They may be right or wrong in their personal definitions of how a team should be, but their satisfaction is affected negatively when the group is not what they expect.
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Which better describes the way you think your work group or team ought to function? |
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The Reports
The Scaled Comparison produces different reports that illustrate and summarize the way the respondents viewed their actual and desired team functioning. The Gap Analysis compares how the team is performing compared with how the Ideal team should function. Note: This "Ideal" is not defined by group members, but by a team of experts in team performance and effectiveness.
The report clearly shows the "gaps" between where the group is and where it should be to function at optimum.
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Another way of looking at the gap between the way the team actually functions and where members think it should is with the High / Low Matrix, which simply places each issue into one of four quadrants depending on whether it was high or low on the two dimensions of Actual and Should Be.
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Underlying all of the reports shown above is the actual Scaled Comparison score, a true interval index, and supported by actual reliability assessment with each report. You never have to rely on assurances of reliability or studies conducted in some other time and place. You will know the reliability of your results.
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The results of Team Effectiveness represent a consensus of the team about where they are, and can identify areas of improvement to bring their effectiveness to higher levels.
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