Measuring and improving team and leadership effectiveness for your clients

  • Author Cindy Tayama
  • Posted on November 14, 2025
  • Read time 4 minutes

As a Strengthscope practitioner, you are in a unique position to help your clients move beyond surface-level development and into measurable, sustainable change. Whether you are working with leaders, teams, or entire organisations, your role is to guide them in understanding their strengths, building trust, and embedding habits that drive performance.

The Team Effectiveness in the Workplace 2025 report offers powerful insights into what makes leaders and teams effective today. This includes key recommendations that you can adapt to your client work, whether you are running workshops, coaching sessions, or strategic interventions.

Here is how to translate those findings into impact for your clients.

  1. Help Leaders Recognise and Use Their Strengths More Effectively

The report reveals a consistent trend: leaders often underestimate their strengths, while stakeholders see them as more effective than they realise. This perception gap is a key opportunity for development.

Application:

  • Use StrengthscopeLeader™ to help leaders identify their standout strengths and explore how they show up in practice.
  • Encourage leaders to be more proactive and confident in using their strengths to deliver value and identify practical areas where they can achieve this.
  • Frame strengths as tools for influence, resilience, and strategic contribution – not just personality traits.

This builds self-awareness and empowers leaders to lead with authenticity.

 

  1. Leverage Feedback to Build Trust and Alignment

Feedback is a cornerstone of leadership effectiveness. Our report recommends that leaders gather feedback, act on it, and communicate back to stakeholders about what’s changing.

Application:

  • Facilitate feedback debriefs using Strengthscope360™ or StrengthscopeLeader™.
  • Coach leaders to close the loop: “Here’s what I heard, and here’s what I’m doing.”
  • Position feedback as a strategic tool for alignment and trust-building.

This helps leaders become more transparent, responsive, and credible.

 

  1. Support Leaders in Developing and Sharing a Clear Vision

Our report showed that some of the strongest predictors of leadership effectiveness relate to the Sharing Vision leadership habit. Leaders who articulate a compelling, simple, and relevant strategy are seen as more effective.

Application:

  • Use StrengthscopeLeader™ data to explore how leaders energise others through vision.
  • Explore storytelling to help leaders communicate their vision clearly.
  • Encourage leaders to link their strengths to their vision. For example, using Strategic mindedness to set out the direction or Enthusiasm to inspire others with passion.

This helps leaders connect people to purpose and direction.

 

  1. Build Trust and Feedback Cultures in Teams

The report shows that trust is the highest-rated team habit, while feedback and stretch are the lowest. Teams are good at supporting each other, but struggle with accountability and continuous improvement.

Application:

  • Use StrengthscopeTeam™ with productive habits to surface trust dynamics and feedback gaps.
  • Facilitate team sessions that explore constructive feedback, psychological safety, and performance risks.
  • Introduce micro-habits like “feedback moments” or “strengths shout-outs” to embed new behaviours.

This helps teams move from “nice” to “honest,” a key shift for sustainable performance.

 

  1. Reinforce Clarity as the Foundation of Team Effectiveness

Our report showed that clarity of purpose, goals, and roles is the strongest predictor of team effectiveness. Yet many teams haven’t done the work to define or revisit these foundations.

Application:

  • Use the Peak Performing Team Pathway™ to guide teams through clarity-building exercises.
  • Encourage teams to co-create a team charter that includes purpose, goals, and behavioural norms.
  • Revisit clarity regularly, especially after team changes or strategic shifts.

This ensures alignment and reduces ambiguity, especially important in hybrid or matrixed environments.

 

Measuring Progress: Turning Insight into Impact

To demonstrate real change and ROI, it’s essential to track progress over time. Practitioners can support clients by using tools like Strengthscope360™, StrengthscopeTeam™ with Productive Habits or StrengthscopeLeader™ every 6–12 months to compare self-perception with stakeholder feedback.

Pre- and post-StrengthscopeTeam™ assessments and interventions also reveal shifts in team habits such as trust, clarity, and accountability.

A simple strengths habit tracker for individuals can also monitor how often strengths are used intentionally, while quarterly reviews and stakeholder feedback loops provide qualitative insights into evolving dynamics.

These approaches not only demonstrate ROI to your clients but also reinforce the behavioural changes needed for long-term success.

 

Final Thought: Practitioners as Catalysts for Measurable Change

You’re not just delivering assessments, you’re enabling transformation. By helping your clients measure and improve team and leadership effectiveness, you’re building cultures of clarity, trust, and performance.

So, whether you are coaching a leader, facilitating a team session, or designing a strengths-based programme, remember: the data is on your side. Use it to spark insight, drive action, and create lasting impact.

 

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