Our Team Effectiveness in the Workplace 2025 data is derived from two unique datasets collected by Strengthscope between October 2023 and September 2024. These datasets are specifically taken from the responses to the scientifically tested and reliable StrengthscopeLeader™ and StrengthscopeTeam™ assessments.
This article is a breakdown specifically of the data for the construction industry. Want to see the full data? Download the report here.
1. The Strengths Ranking of Construction Leaders
Strengths are qualities that energise us and that we are great at, or have the potential to become great at. This ranking demonstrates the most common strengths of leaders in the construction industry.
Based on this data, it’s clear that leaders in construction gain energy from taking a big-picture view, understanding a problem from all angles, making a plan and executing it calmly.
2. The Visibility and Effectiveness of Strengths for Leaders in the Construction Industry
In the graphs below, we see where leaders rate themselves in the visibility and effective use of their strengths, versus where their stakeholders rate these leaders against the same criteria.
Overall, the leaders’ stakeholders rate the leaders’ visibility and effective use of strengths higher than the leaders rate themselves.
3. The Four Leadership Habits Ratings in the Construction Industry
The StrengthscopeLeader™ report looks at sixteen questions across four clusters of effective leadership habits. Leaders evaluate themselves on all sixteen questions and get scored by their nominated raters.
Strengthscope’s four clusters of leadership habits are:
- Sharing Vision: Setting a clear, shared vision of success for the organisation.
- Sparking Engagement: Empowering, inspiring and developing people.
- Skilfully Executing: Setting stretching performance expectations, reviewing progress and to ensure delivery of planned outcomes.
- Sustaining Progress: Recognising achievement and encouraging continuous improvement and experimentation.
This graph demonstrates overall where leaders rate themselves in these habits, versus where their stakeholders rate the leaders against the same habits.
4. Breakdown of Leadership Habits Across Four Areas
Here we see the leaders’ self ratings, and their raters’ ratings, across the sixteen questions within the four leadership habits.
Overall, leaders in construction score highest across seven of the sixteen habit areas, especially in the areas of Sharing Vision and Skilful Execution, suggesting that leaders from this industry are seen as most able to develop and communicate a vision and then ensure that people are given clarity and direction on whether they are delivering on that vision. The most notable score difference is in taking decisive action to deal with performance shortfalls, which is significantly higher than for any other industry. See the data from all the industries here.
