D'Essence provides a comprehensive Team Audit service. The team audits are customized according to client's needs.

Today's business environment lays a lot of emphasis on teamwork. Managing effective and high performance teams is challenge faced by many organizations. The efficiency with which the team functions to a large extent determines organizational success.

Teams need more than just members. Teams need to be nurtured and strengthened. Investing on teams is a very good investment. Teams Audit is an assessment of the way teams function in the organization. Team Audit help organization understand the way their team function and whether the culture of the organization culture support them.

• Team Audits are essential for those organizations that emphases on Team work.
• Team audit is important for organizations that are Committed to understand their teams
• Want to assess their team working skills
• Want to improve the performance of their teams.
• Want to identify barriers in teamwork.
• Want to reduce training cost by identifying problems in team performance
• Want to identify the strengths and weakness of their team

Team Audit is a detailed assessment of team work in an organization. It is a step-by-step procedure that assesses all aspects of teamwork.

Step 1. Assesses whether the organizational culture supports Team working.
If organizations want to have efficient teams it is essential to find out whether the organizational culture encourage teamwork and whether reward and recognition system supports teamwork. Organizational culture refers to the organization's shared values, beliefs, traditions and rules. There are some cultures that are open to teams while there are others that are closed.

Step 2. Assessing the way information is communicated in the organization.
Understanding the communication that takes place within the team gives a lot of insight on how teams function. Communication involves much more than just talking to other team members. Communication is a two-way process that includes the open exchange of information and ideas for everyone on the team. How the team receives and gives feedback is also taken into account.

Step 3. Assessing the level of empowerment in the organization
Understanding the nature of empowerment in the team is an important element in the team audit. The level of empowerment of team members determines the success of the team. Empowerment is the delegation of authority to individuals in the team. It is enables team members to make decisions and act on them. When team members are empowered they feel that they are an important part of the team and not just hired hand. As a result of which they begin to contribute to the team in terms of new ideas and better communication.

Step 4. Assess the organization's Team working skills
In any team there always exists two sets of skills namely team leadership and team membership. The performance of the team depends on the skills of the leader as well as the skills of the team members. The team leader plays the role of facilitator, planner, negotiator and change monitor. Thus assessing the skills of the team leader and the members will help organizations to identify gaps in performance. Team members must possess problem solving and decision-making skills. Team member must possess the skills to identify and solve problems. Team member also need to have good interpersonal skills.

After assessing the team on the above dimensions a detailed Audit report is presented. The report address the following areas

• Problems in team performance
• Causes of the problems
• Implications of these problems
• Recommendations to improve the situation
  

Checklist

Following checklist shows some of the questions that can addressed during the Team Audit