NKD Insights™

Evidence-based team assessment and continuous improvement visibility

Team assessment tool that creates visibility into collaboration quality and teamwork effectiveness. Provides evidence-based feedback to help you understand where teams are working well and where they need support.

What NKD Insights Provides

Team performance assessment grounded in research on team effectiveness. Creates visibility across individual teams or your entire organisation.

Helps you see collaboration patterns, identify improvement opportunities, and track progress over time.

Evidence-based assessment – Evaluation framework grounded in research on team effectiveness, covering collaboration patterns, communication quality, and teamwork dynamics.
Clear visibility – See collaboration quality across one team or many. Identify patterns, consensus areas, and divergence in team perspectives.
Actionable feedback – Specific guidance categorised by impact, from broad strategies to immediate improvements teams can implement.
Progress tracking – Monitor improvement over time, see trends, and respond when teams signal they need support.

Team-Level Assessment

Assess team effectiveness through multiple perspectives: team members, stakeholders who depend on the team’s work, and supporters like coaches or managers.

Multi-Factor Team Effectiveness Model

Assessment framework examining five core factors of team effectiveness, broken into detailed sub-factors. Creates visibility into where the team is functioning well and where collaboration needs attention.

Shows score ranges to identify consensus and disagreement, helping you see where perspectives align or diverge.

Multi-Factor Team Effectiveness Model
Multiple Perspectives on Team Performance
Multiple Perspectives on Team Performance

Gather input from team members, stakeholders who receive the team’s work, and supporters including managers and coaches.

Different perspectives reveal different aspects of team effectiveness. Stakeholder views show delivery and value perception. Supporter input highlights where teams need organisational help.

Specific, Categorised Feedback

Feedback across over 20 areas, organised by potential impact. Each area includes strategic approaches, facilitation guidance for deeper exploration, and quick practical improvements teams can try immediately.

Enables you to prioritise where attention will have the most effect.

Specific, Categorised Feedback

Organisation-Level Visibility

When working across multiple teams, NKD Insights creates visibility into patterns across your organisation. See where teams are thriving and where they need support.

Organisation Dashboard

View team effectiveness across your organisation. Group teams by value stream, business unit, or other structures relevant to how you work.

Monitor trends, track improvement initiatives, and see when teams request help. Creates visibility into which factors affect team performance across your organisation, enabling you to address systemic issues.

Organisation Dashboard

Organisations with many teams face challenges creating visibility across their delivery systems. A global energy technology company with over 800 engineering teams used similar assessment approaches to identify where fragmented systems and inconsistent processes were preventing collaboration and making reporting nearly impossible at the organisational level.

Organisations with many teams face challenges creating visibility across their delivery systems. A global energy technology company with over 800 engineering teams used similar assessment approaches to identify where fragmented systems and inconsistent processes were preventing collaboration and making reporting nearly impossible at the organisational level.

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NKD Insights assessment provides evidence-based feedback for one team or across your organisation.

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