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<p>Use the Leadership Team Health Monitor template to keep track of your leadership team's health. Keep this template in your team space and if there are any areas that you're not confident are green, dive into the plays to get back on track.</p><p>The template provides an example to check out - prior to updating the template with your Health Monitor notes delete the example text.</p><p><br /></p><table class="relative-table wrapped confluenceTable" style="width: 100.0%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 10.0%;" /><col /><col style="width: 5.0%;" /><col /><col style="width: 12.0%;" /><col /></colgroup><tbody><tr><th class="confluenceTh">Leadership Team</th><td class="confluenceTd"><span class="text-placeholder">Enter your leadership team's name</span></td><th class="confluenceTh">Sponsor</th><td class="confluenceTd"><span class="text-placeholder">Enter our sponsor's name.</span></td><th class="confluenceTh">Health monitor cadence</th><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><span class="text-placeholder">Enter the cadence for checking your team health (e.g. Monthly).</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2>Overall health:  <img class="editor-inline-macro" height="18" width="88" src="/plugins/servlet/status-macro/placeholder?=&amp;0=&amp;colour=Green&amp;title=healthy" data-macro-name="status" data-macro-id="f4bdc21f-2d90-42f0-8c0b-3a51def1e3a0" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-haspopup="true" aria-label="healthy status macro" data-macro-parameters="colour=Green|title=healthy" data-macro-default-parameter="" data-macro-schema-version="1">   <img class="editor-inline-macro" height="18" width="88" src="/plugins/servlet/status-macro/placeholder?=&amp;0=&amp;colour=Yellow&amp;title=Bit+sick" data-macro-name="status" data-macro-id="2dadfd04-8fba-474a-bfe4-cff1aa79ffd8" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-haspopup="true" aria-label="Bit sick status macro" data-macro-parameters="colour=Yellow|title=Bit sick" data-macro-default-parameter="" data-macro-schema-version="1">   <img class="editor-inline-macro" height="18" width="88" src="/plugins/servlet/status-macro/placeholder?=&amp;0=&amp;colour=Red&amp;title=sick" data-macro-name="status" data-macro-id="3a2ebf2c-7753-4a6e-a5b8-34a4131c6fca" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-haspopup="true" aria-label="sick status macro" data-macro-parameters="colour=Red|title=sick" data-macro-default-parameter="" data-macro-schema-version="1"></h2><table class="relative-table wrapped confluenceTable" style="width: 100.0%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 25.7627%;" /><col style="width: 20.452%;" /><col /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><tbody><tr><th rowspan="2" class="confluenceTh">Area</th><th class="confluenceTh"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">Example</span></th><th class="confluenceTh">Date</th><th class="confluenceTh">Date</th><th class="confluenceTh">Date</th><th class="confluenceTh">Date</th></tr><tr><td class="confluenceTd"><div class="content-wrapper"><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);"><time datetime="2016-10-10" class="date-past">10. 10. 2016</time>  </span></p></div></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><div class="content-wrapper"><p><br /></p></div></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><div class="content-wrapper"><p><br /></p></div></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><div class="content-wrapper"><p><br /></p></div></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><div class="content-wrapper"><p><br /></p></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><h2>Balanced team</h2><p>You have the <strong>right people</strong>, and they know what is expected of them. Team roles are explicit and <strong>who</strong> is <strong>accountable</strong> for what is well understood. The team is the right size to be effective. </p></td><td class="highlight-yellow confluenceTd" colspan="1" data-highlight-colour="yellow"><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">The leadership team has the right players on-board.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">Fo</span><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">r our strategic bets we're clear who owns what, but when ad-hoc stuff comes up we quickly fall apart.</span></p></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><h2>Team cohesiveness</h2><p>Members proactively provide their experience and insights to make the group more <strong>effective</strong>. There is <strong>trust</strong> and respect across the group.</p></td><td class="highlight-yellow confluenceTd" colspan="1" data-highlight-colour="yellow"><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">We work well together and there's a healthy degree of trust in the group.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">However we need to be stronger in constructively challenging each other. We're not sharing ideas early enough and not pushing each other - sometimes it all feels too &quot;nice&quot;.</span></p></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><h2>Shared understanding</h2><p>The team has a <strong>shared vision</strong> and collective <strong>purpose</strong> which they support, and <strong>confidence </strong>they have made the right strategic bets to achieve success. </p></td><td class="highlight-green confluenceTd" colspan="1" data-highlight-colour="green"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">Our vision is clear and we're happy that we've made the right strategic bets.</span></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><h2>Value and metrics</h2><p>The group is clear on their unique value proposition for growing the business and they can <strong>measure </strong>the intended <strong>impact</strong>. <strong>Success</strong> is defined, and measures identified.</p></td><td class="highlight-green confluenceTd" colspan="1" data-highlight-colour="green"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">We have clearly defined measures of success. Our KPIs are tracked on our dashboard and we review these during our monthly business reviews. We've got our fingers on the pulse.</span></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><h2>Decision making</h2><p>Decisions are made at the right level with an appropriate degree of urgency and discussion in considering both short and long term implications with trade offs actively considered. Decisions are timely and effectively communicated.</p></td><td class="highlight-red confluenceTd" colspan="1" data-highlight-colour="red"><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">Decision making can feel clunky. Sometimes we go too deep on low risk, low impact decisions - when we should just make the call and crack on.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">Other times we don't sweat the details on high impact and high risk decisions.</span><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">Our radar is off. We need to be better at considering trade-offs.</span></p></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><h2>One-pager</h2><p>Each member stands behind the groups vision and value, and this is documented in plain English for other teams to understand.</p></td><td class="highlight-green confluenceTd" colspan="1" data-highlight-colour="green"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">Our one-pager is the strategy page on our Confluence space.</span></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><h2>Managed dependencies</h2><p class="p1">Clear communication between team members to share insights, knowledge and learning which could lessen risk, complexity, resources, effort, and timelines facing the team. </p><p class="p1">You are viewed as &quot;easy to do business with&quot; from your key stakeholders.</p></td><td class="highlight-yellow confluenceTd" colspan="1" data-highlight-colour="yellow"><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">Generally ok, we're surviving through &quot;water cooler&quot; conversations.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">This is becoming increasingly difficult to manage and will go Red if we don't establish clear lines of communications with partner teams. Watch here.</span></p></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><h2>Velocity</h2><p>The team reflects on, then leverages lessons learned and success to make more effective decisions faster. The group is renowned for and has established patterns for GSD (Getting $#!T Done).</p></td><td class="highlight-green confluenceTd" colspan="1" data-highlight-colour="green"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">We're making solid progress, our key business metrics are trending well.</span></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h2>Notes, actions and due dates</h2><table class="relative-table wrapped confluenceTable" style="width: 1430.0px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 0.0px;" /><col style="width: 0.0px;" /></colgroup><tbody><tr><th class="confluenceTh">Date</th><th class="confluenceTh">Notes &amp; Actions</th></tr><tr><td class="confluenceTd"><div class="content-wrapper"><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">  <time datetime="2016-10-10" class="date-past">10. 10. 2016</time><br /></span></p></div></td><td class="confluenceTd"><div class="content-wrapper"><p><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">One focus area: Decision making</span></p><ul class="inline-task-list" data-inline-tasks-content-id="0"><li data-inline-task-id="9"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">@mention &lt;action&gt; due date DD/MM/YY.</span></li><li data-inline-task-id="7"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">@Susan to add a standing agenda item to our weekly leadership team meeting to debate open decisions. We'll start from our next meeting on <img data-variable-name="randomDateLozenge1" data-variable-raw-xhtml="true" alt="$randomDateLozenge1" class="template-variable" src="/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/template-variable?name=randomDateLozenge1" />.</span></li><li data-inline-task-id="5"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">@Jay to capture all open decision and update into a decision register by <img data-variable-name="randomDateLozenge2" data-variable-raw-xhtml="true" alt="$randomDateLozenge2" class="template-variable" src="/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/template-variable?name=randomDateLozenge2" />.</span></li><li data-inline-task-id="11"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">@Jay to assign all open decisions a single Driver and define a single Approver by <img data-variable-name="randomDateLozenge3" data-variable-raw-xhtml="true" alt="$randomDateLozenge3" class="template-variable" src="/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/template-variable?name=randomDateLozenge3" />.</span></li><li data-inline-task-id="13"><span style="color: rgb(153,153,153);">All decision Drivers to complete a Decision DACI, using the DACI Decision play by <img data-variable-name="randomDateLozenge4" data-variable-raw-xhtml="true" alt="$randomDateLozenge4" class="template-variable" src="/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/template-variable?name=randomDateLozenge4" />.</span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td><td colspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>Copyright © 2016 Atlassian</p><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-external-resource" draggable="false" alt="Creative Commons License" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" data-image-src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png"></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License</a>.</p><table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="info" data-macro-id="42e224f1-8b8f-42a1-9951-5e631c500ef9" aria-label="info macro" data-macro-schema-version="1" style="background-image: url(https://confluence.hkfree.org/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2luZm99&amp;locale=cs_CZ&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="RICH_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><p><strong>To learn more about this blueprint and how to use it, see the play <a href="https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/health-monitor/leadership-teams">here</a>.</strong></p></td></tr></table>