We call teams “remote” or “virtual” if the members cannot always meet face-to-face, and digital interactive technologies play an important role in their communication. The Remote Team Development Survey (RTDS) focuses on the unique challenges of managing such teams (for example a partly or fully remote workforce of a department, a sales or customer service team, a project or engineering team, etc). It is suitable for all degrees of remote work setup (fully remote, office-first, or remote-first hybrid models).

RTDS is for teams that have a designated "Team Leader" (manager, project manager) – a central person with primary accountability for the performance of the team. RTDS gives clients an opportunity to evaluate the key success factors of team performance in their team or organization, identifying the areas of strengths and weaknesses in the team’s and the Team Leader’s behavioral outcomes, and highlighting the improvement opportunities. RTDS is mobile-friendly: it can be used on all popular devices.

RTDS can help clients in:

• Promoting the behaviors of highly effective teams and aligning people for team development.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of the Team Leader and the teamwork.
• Helping to identify the areas of strengths and improvement opportunities.
• Tracking progress by repeating the survey and using a benchmarking function.

Product details

The Remote Team Development Survey is an anonymous survey that takes just five to ten minutes per team member to complete. It consists of 45 standard questions and supports adding customized questions to address organization-specific topics.

Remote Teams can be fully or partially virtual. Some teams may never meet physically, while other teams are mixed: certain team members work from home, while others go to a central office; or everyone works from home most of the time, but the team meets face-to-face regularly. In some companies these models are called Telecommuting, Remote Working, Telework, Working From Home, Mobile Work, Remote Job, Work From Anywhere, and Flexible Workplace; or referred to as Split or Hybrid team models. Teams also differ in the degree of complexity and interdependence, and in the degree of empowerment. RTDS supports custom questions to address these differences and ensure that the right questions are asked.

Reports are insightful and easy to understand:

Please Contact Us for a sample report if you are interested in using it in your work.

An effective team and leadership development tool

The Remote Team Development Survey was created by an international consultant team with decades of combined experience in managing and developing teams. The developers conducted a literature review, and they condensed the more than 100 "effectiveness factors" to 45 questions. Combine the RTDS with (virtual) team building or leadership training programs such as "Leading Remote Teams" for ideal results.

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Are you looking for a team survey that fits most teams (project teams, departments, management teams, executive teams)? You may be interested in Team Effectiveness Survey: Team-SWOT™ – an advanced team diagnostics tool that fits most typical team setup in organizations.

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