Team Engagement

Is the team producing more than the sum of its parts?

What it measures

Whether teams collaborate effectively, whether meetings produce decisions, and whether teams have enough autonomy to innovate.

Why it matters

Individuals can carry a company for a while. Teams are what let a company keep going when any individual is unavailable.

What good looks like

  • Team meetings have clear agendas and produce decisions
  • Cross-team projects happen without drama
  • Teams have autonomy to make decisions in their domain
  • Engagement scores are tracked at the team level, not just company-wide

How it evolves across levels

  1. L1 Foundation

    Teams meet regularly with agendas.

  2. L2 Structure

    Cross-team collaboration happens on real projects.

  3. L3 Performance

    Teams have explicit autonomy; escalations are rare.

  4. L4 Excellence

    Teams innovate; bottom-up ideas get picked up.

  5. L5 Mastery

    Team health is a strategic metric, not an HR metric.