Learn how to use the Team Comparison Heatmap to evaluate team performance across seven key dimensions. This guide explains the Heatmap's layout, color coding, and how to access detailed reports for actionable insights. Discover how to identify team strengths and areas for improvement, track progress over time, and leverage this tool for enhancing overall team effectiveness.
Table of Contents:
Y-axis: Dimensions of Team Performance
X-axis: Team Comparison Results
Understand the relationship from a previous assessment
Review the Team's Status and Take Action
Understanding the Heatmap
This heatmap shows how well different teams are doing in 7 important areas. The scores come from the Team Compass Baseline and Checkpoint assessments. It helps to show where teams are doing well and where they need to improve.
Y-axis: Dimensions of Team Performance
Each row represents a different dimension of team performance. These dimensions, based on decades of research into team effectiveness, are critical areas that contribute to overall team performance. For dimension definitions, refer to the following article.
X-axis: Team Comparison Results
Each column shows results for a different team. Allowing for easy comparison across teams. The title case abbreviation is applied to the team name for the cleaned-up chart. Clicking a team name or column allows you to access the team report. In the detailed report, you can review dimension and indicator scores and track changes over time.
Color coding
The color coding in this Heatmap reflects the effectiveness scores across dimensions of team performance. Use the Heatmap to identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement within each team and across teams.
- Highest: Indicates exceptional performance in this dimension, with the team demonstrating outstanding capabilities.
- High: Suggests strong performance, with the team operating effectively in this dimension.
- Mid: Reflects moderate performance, with a balance of strengths and areas needing improvement in this dimension.
- Low: Highlights areas where the team is underperforming, indicating a need for targeted improvements.
- Lowest: Shows significant underperformance, requiring immediate and substantial enhancements in this dimension.
Understand the relationship from a previous assessment
Each cell tells you if there were previous assessment results and progress since then.
- Improved Score
- Score unchanged
- Score declined
- No update
- No data
Review the Team's Status
The icon above each column shows the team's status. Hover to view member response details and the date of the last response.