High Performing Team Assessment
The High Performing Team Assessment (HPTA) is an evidence-based assessment designed to help teams understand how effectively they work together and where they can strengthen collective performance.
Rather than assessing individual team members, the HPTA focuses on the team as a whole. It gathers team members’ perspectives across 12 factors that influence team effectiveness, grouped into two areas: Performance and Culture.
The Performance dimensions examine Strategy, Innovation, Accountability, Leading Change, Results and Meeting Effectiveness. The Culture dimensions examine Trust, Professional Conflict, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Collaboration and Resilience.
By creating a shared and structured view of how the team is currently operating, the assessment helps teams:
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement by highlighting where the team is performing well and where gaps or inconsistencies may be affecting its effectiveness.
- Focus conversations on what matters most by providing objective data that can help teams surface issues, test assumptions and discuss aspects of team performance that may otherwise be difficult to address.
- Translate insight into action by identifying priorities and practical steps to strengthen team culture, collaboration and performance.
The HPTA can be used with executive, management and other established teams and can support both targeted team development and broader leadership development initiatives.
How the High Performing Team Assessment Process Works
The HPTA is most powerful when the results become the starting point for a focused and well-facilitated conversation about how the team is working together.
The process can be delivered as a standalone team development session, incorporated into an existing team planning or leadership day, or designed as part of a multi-day team development program. The format is tailored to the team’s context, priorities and the depth of work required.
The process typically includes:
- Initial consultation and design
Michelle works with the team’s leader or sponsor to understand the team’s context, current challenges, objectives and what they want to achieve. This ensures the assessment and facilitated session focus on the issues that matter most to the team. - Completion of the online assessment
Each team member completes the HPTA, providing their perspective on the team’s effectiveness across the 12 Performance and Culture dimensions. - Analysis and preparation
The team’s responses are compiled into a collective report highlighting strengths, differences in perception, and areas requiring attention. Michelle reviews the findings in advance and uses them to shape the approach for the facilitated team session. - Facilitated team session
Michelle facilitates a structured, practical conversation that helps the team make sense of the findings, explore different perspectives, and examine what supports or constrains its effectiveness. Depending on the team’s needs, the session can go deeper into areas such as trust, accountability, communication, decision-making, collaboration or leading change. - Priorities and action
The team identifies the areas that matter most and agrees on practical actions, expectations or ways of working that will strengthen performance. Where appropriate, these priorities can then be incorporated into ongoing team development, leadership sessions or follow-up work.
The HPTA can also be repeated over time to help the team review progress, assess what has shifted and determine where further attention is needed.
Why Engage Michelle
As an accredited High Performing Team Assessment practitioner, Michelle brings together the assessment's insights with extensive experience in leadership development, executive coaching, team facilitation, and organisational development.
Michelle recognises that an assessment's value doesn't come from the report alone. It comes from the quality of the conversations it enables and what the team does with the insights that emerge.
Her facilitation approach creates space for teams to examine results openly and constructively, explore where perspectives differ, and identify the practical changes that will make the greatest difference.
The HPTA can be used as a standalone team assessment or incorporated into a broader leadership or team development program. This enables the process to be tailored to the team's particular challenges, priorities and organisational context.
Next Steps
High-performing teams are built deliberately. They require clarity about what is working, the willingness to address what isn't and a shared commitment to improving how the team works together.
The High Performing Team Assessment provides a structured way to start that conversation and turn insight into focused action.