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 IT industry. Want to see the full data? Download the report here.
1. The Strengths Ranking of IT 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 IT gain energy from breaking down problems systematically, making quick, confident and clear decisions, and managing their emotions to ensure they remain calm and productive.
2. The Visibility and Effectiveness of Strengths for Leaders in the IT 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 IT 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 IT score score lowest on Sharing vision, particularly keeping people focused on the long-term strategy, providing a simple vision for success and setting effective strategic goals based on context. They also score lowest on Skilful execution, specifically holding people accountable for delivering results, reporting progress to ensure people stay on track and taking action to deal with shortfalls in performance. See the data from all the industries here.
