Leadership & Team Effectiveness Resources

Start Here: Understanding Emotional Health Levels

Everything on this page is built on one framework: the Emotional Health Levels. Emotional health is a state of enhanced wellbeing created through highly conscious choices and mindful practices. Leaders and teams each operate at a level - most commonly in the range from Level 3 (Social Value) to Level 6 (Exaggeration) - with the Line of Choice dividing conscious, chosen behaviour above from automated, reactive patterns below. Most of us have a primary level we operate from and a secondary one that appears under pressure.

Understanding Emotional Health Levels
New to the framework? Start with this short introduction to the levels, the Line of Choice, and what they mean for you and your team.
The Assessment & Development Process

To develop our team, we first understand the Emotional Health Levels at which I operate as a leader - a primary level and usually a secondary one as well. Once this is established, we look at the way teams operate at the higher of your primary or secondary level. Then we use the Teams Model to identify which domains the team is performing well in and where the development opportunities lie. The final step is the development path for you and your team.

Team assessment process diagram showing Emotional Health Levels, Team Assessment, and Team Development Model Learn about Level 3 Learn about Level 4 Learn about Level 5 Learn about Level 6 Take the Level 3 team assessment Take the Level 4 team assessment Take the Level 5 team assessment Level 3 model reference Level 4 model reference Level 5 model reference

Click on different parts of the diagram above to access the resources for each level.

Explore the Teams Effectiveness Model
Teams Effectiveness Model - Interactive Explorer (Levels 3 to 5)
The heart of the Teams Model in one interactive page: nine domains on the enneagram, how each domain transforms across Levels 3, 4 and 5, the shock points where development starts, and the connections to work with when developing any domain.
Step 1 - Assess Yourself as a Leader
Leadership Emotional Health Assessment
36 questions, about 10 minutes. Identifies your primary and secondary Emotional Health Levels as a leader - the starting point for everything else.
Integrated Leadership & Team Effectiveness Assessment
The complete picture in one assessment (25-30 minutes): your leadership profile, how your level shows up in your team leadership, your team's performance against Level 3 excellence across all nine domains, and a 90-day development plan.
Step 2 - Assess Your Team

Choose the assessment matching the level your team most resembles. Unsure? Start with Level 3 - it measures any team against the characteristics of highly effective teams - or explore the model above first.

Team Emotional Health Assessment - Level 3 (Social Value)
Teams have a high degree of balance and redirect their concerns to those of others and broader social interests.
Team Emotional Health Assessment - Level 4 (Recognition)
Team members start to recognise they have choices in their reactions and behaviours, beginning to observe them more regularly and increase behavioural freedom.
Team Emotional Health Assessment - Level 5 (Automated Response)
Teams are dominated by automated responses that are mostly defensive and reactive, focused on controlling the environment to get perceived needs met.
Step 3 - Develop: Level Reference Pages

One page per level: the nine domains with their criteria at that level - useful as a printable reference in team development sessions.

Level 3 Model Reference
The nine domains as they look in a highly effective, collaborative team.
Level 4 Model Reference
The nine domains in a team building awareness and choice.
Level 5 Model Reference
The nine domains in a team operating on procedure and automated patterns.

These assessments are provided free of charge by the Global Leadership Foundation to support the development of Emotionally Healthy Leaders & Teams.