Team health is hard to see, and easy to guess wrong

Leaders can feel when a team is underperforming, but rarely point to why. Friction hides in handoffs, planning, review, and the gap between how a team thinks it works and how it actually does.

The usual instruments don't close that gap. Engagement surveys capture how people feel, not how the team works. Offsites generate energy that fades within a sprint or two. Delivery metrics tell you a team is slow without telling you what to change. So decisions about where to invest in a team end up being guesswork.

Most team-health efforts measure how people feel. This one measures how the team works, and what to change first.

Why this is different

The audit draws on two things generic assessments rarely have together: the day-to-day context of every person on the team, and real signal from how the team delivers. Each team member shares candid context in a private interview and through structured Aurora Coach sessions. The result is a picture specific to this team in this period, rather than a benchmark or a best-practice checklist.

It also doesn't end with a slide deck. The engagement leaves a working improvement system in place, so the recommendations become a habit the team owns instead of a report that gets shelved.

What your leadership walks away with

A written leadership report

A maturity assessment across six domains, the team's strengths, its growth opportunities, and a prioritized set of recommendations, including what to act on first and why.

Three months of Aurora Coach

The team keeps running the improvement loop after the audit ends. Recommendations become tracked commitments the team owns, not a PDF that gets filed away.

An objective baseline

A clear starting point you can measure future progress against, and compare on the same axes as your other teams.

How the two weeks work

  1. 1

    Interviews

    I speak with each team member individually. These are private, candid conversations that surface context delivery data never shows.

  2. 2

    The team runs Aurora Coach

    Structured coaching sessions and check-ins capture the team's collective context, alongside real delivery signal from the work itself.

  3. 3

    Analysis

    I bring the interviews together with Aurora Coach's contextual SWOT and maturity assessment into a picture specific to this team and this period.

  4. 4

    Leadership report

    Strengths, growth opportunities, and a prioritized set of recommendations, delivered and walked through with your leadership.

What it covers

The assessment spans the six domains of team effectiveness Aurora Coach is built around:

Team Foundation & Culture
Product Discovery & Development
Technical Excellence & Engineering Practices
Delivery & Operational Excellence
Adaptive Planning & Execution
Team Enablement & Strategic Alignment

The engagement

A fixed-fee, two-week engagement for one team. It includes three months of Aurora Coach, with an optional time-and-materials continuation if there's follow-through work worth doing together.

Every team is different, so we scope the engagement to yours on a short call, and you'll have a fixed quote before anything starts.

See where your team will gain the most.

Book a short scoping call and we'll tailor the audit to your team.