How to Understand What Energizes and Drains Your Team
A simple exercise to read your team’s pulse (with a facilitation guide and tool download)
Mapping your team’s pulse is a powerful way to unpack divergent perspectives and perceptions, to create a unified team narrative.
Your team can live through the same quarter and come away with completely different stories. One person calls it a low point. Another colleague calls is the most energizing stretch of their career. Both can be true.
Most leaders miss that gap or dismiss it as “personality differences.” But when everyone interprets the same events differently, it becomes hard to move forward together.
The Team Heartbeat Canvas helps you surface what’s driving or draining your team members. Connect the dots, bridge the gaps, and build a shared narrative.
In this post, you’ll learn why the exercise works, how to run it, and how to facilitate the conversation.
Why Your Team’s Pulse Matters More Than You Think
Most feedback tools capture opinions about the work. But emotions have a bigger impact on team behaviors. The Team Heartbeat Canvas captures the emotional rhythm of your team: …
