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actualized team profile (ATP)

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what is the ATP for?

The Actualized Team Profile (ATP) is an assessment tool designed to evaluate a team’s culture, emotional intelligence (EQ), and overall dynamics. It provides insights into how a team functions, its underlying emotional environment, and the factors influencing its performance.

Key features:

  • Team Culture Analysis: Measures the emotional tone and behavioral norms within a team.
  • Emotional Intelligence (EQ): Assesses the team’s ability to navigate emotions, relationships, and challenges effectively.
  • Leadership Integration: Uniquely incorporates the leadership styles of both the team leader and its members.
  • Stress Management: Evaluates how the team and its members handle stress and pressure.

what is team culture?

Team culture is not merely the sum of individual personalities. Rather it is the atmosphere that emerges that is above and beyond individuality. Team culture comes primarily from the leader’s and group members’ leadership style, and the larger environment or challenge the team faces.

Teams operate at two distinct levels: conscious and unconscious. The conscious element is based on rational, intentional behavior. People are accountable for their actions, and communication within the team is open, honest, and direct. Diverse opinions are expressed openly. The group is rational, realistic, responsible, and mature. Emotions do not dominate. The team is productive and effective, which facilitates learning, synergy, and team member satisfaction. The Actualized Team Profile measure this quality on the Dynamic scale.

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what does the ATP Measure?

The ATP also evaluates the hidden aspects of team culture, known as the three collective “Shadows.”

These Shadows show up as irrational and stressed thoughts, feelings, and behaviors triggered by negative emotions like fear, jealousy, and anger.

measures Five Dimensions of Team Performance

  • Trust
  • Participation
  • Conflict Management
  • Communication
  • Purpose

measures four cultural behavior patterns

  • Dynamic: The positive, conscious aspect of team culture. Marked by trust, respect, open communication, accountability, and a willingness to consider different perspectives.
  • Detached: Team members feel angry and apathetic, expressing their frustration by disengaging and withdrawing from the group.
  • Dramatic: While the team appears warm and supportive, underlying emotions include hope and despair. Members avoid tough conversations, prioritize politeness, and resort to gossip and triangulation.
  • Dependent: Members feel helpless and fearful, acting immaturely and relying too much on the leader, rules, or tradition. They avoid responsibility and critical thinking.

why you need arudia’s help with the ATP

We help individuals and teams manage their stress responses to work more effectively together and across teams. Each person completes the full Actualized Leader Profile to understand their core motivational drivers (affiliation, achieving results, or technical expertise) and their associated “shadows.”

A shadow is a subconscious reaction triggered by stress and fueled by negative emotions like fear, anger, or jealousy. Team members learn to recognize their shadows and develop strategies to avoid shadow-driven thinking. This may involve staying objective or, more often, anticipating stressors and preparing strategies or skills to handle them.

In workshops, teams align on strategies, build empathy, and learn not to take shadow-driven actions personally. Skills taught include planning, Arudia’s Win-Win Communication, and Coaching Skills. Participants also gain resilience strategies that benefit all areas of their work.

The Actualized Team Profile can also provide the basis for a board, leadership or staff retreat or workshop.

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To turn insights from the assessment into meaningful improvements at work, you need Arudia

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