Sometimes it’s more like “meh” – people dutifully do the workshops or surveys or whatever, and the data is then ignored.īeware though. Sometimes a model like this can be really helpful.
A systemic approach with clear visualization can reduce some of the guessiness. Organizational improvement work is very much a guessing game (how do you know what needs to be improved, and how will you know if it’s improving?).
Plus, most of our models don’t involve progressing through different levels, and the primary audience is the team itself rather than management. We prefer to use other terms like “health check model”, because “maturity” sounds a bit… well…. The intent of these types of models is usually benign – for example managers or coaches in larger organizations who want to get a sense of where they should focus their improvement efforts, spot systemic problems, and help teams become more self-aware so they can focus their improvement efforts too. They’re usually called “maturity models”, and involve some sort of progression through different levels.
(Translations of this article: Chinese, French) What is a squad health check model?Ī lot of companies experiment with ways of measuring and visualizing how their teams are doing. (Download the cards & instructions as PDF or PPTX)
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