Because teams are everywhere, it's easy to underestimate the systemic requirements and “heavy lifting "that is necessary to yield the skills, behaviours, and results of teams “as advertised". So many of our workplaces have significant team involvements; from what may seem like a "little thing" such as "team lifting" right through to integrated teams requirements in electrical engineering fit outs etc.

Why is it then that you become disappointed that the team slipped a schedule, missed a quality gate (goal), or that the electrician neglected to tell the fitter that the system was "live". It’s tempting to blame the team members, but the real problem is often far removed from the team. TransformationalSafety.Com has identified the "teams interface" as amongst the most significant potential factors in safety performance breakdown. In aligning this observation with the body of research surrounding transformational leadership TransformationalSafety.Com provides a Transformational Safety^© focus to an MLQ-T implementation.

About the MLQ Team Report

The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire for Teams (MLQT) is a short but comprehensive survey of 50 items that measures a full range of leadership styles as these are expressed in a team's actions. This instrument complements the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) used in 360degree feedback for individual leaders.

The MLQT is often a good place to start with a work group since it provides valuable feedback to the whole team about how its members see the group performing leadership functions. The MLQT provides a "snapshot" at a micro level of the extent to which a team sees itself to be supporting and practicing the Full Range Leadership Model. It also introduces the members of the team to the concept of the Full Range Leadership Model as shown in the table below.

The Leadership Styles

I. Transformational Leadership

	Idealised (Attributes)
	Idealised (Behaviours)
	Inspirational Motivation
	Intellectual Stimulation
	Individualised Consideration

II. Transactional Leadership

	Contingent Rewards
	Management-by-exception (Active)
	Management-by-exception (Passive)

III. Non-Transactional Leadership

Laissez-Faire

IV. Outcomes of Leadserhip

	Extra Effort
	Effectriveness
	Satisfaction

Responses from the MLQT are gathered from each team member and the results are aggregated for the whole group. These are then reported in a comprehensive Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire for Teams Report comprising 30+ pages. This report contains:

	Explanations of the concepts used.
	Graphs of team responses (including the levels of disagreement about perceptions of the team's exercise of the full transformational-transactional paradigm leadership behaviours).
	Comments about the optimum levels of various leadership behaviours that the team should consider adopting as a goal to achieve outcomes that exceed expectations.

TransformationalSafety.Com facilitators are all internationally qualified to deliver the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire for Teams.

If you wish to view some sample pages from the Team MLQ provided by TransformationalSafety.Com click here. To arrange a Team MLQ, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .