A Team Diagnostic for Farms That Want Clarity Before Change:
This IO-Psychology-grounded assessment helps farm owners and managers understand what is actually shaping team performance before investing in generic training programs, discipline, or restructuring.
When teams struggle on farms, the response is often immediate:
more rules,
more pressure,
more training,
or “stronger management”.
But many performance problems are not skill problems or attitude problems.
They are system problems: unclear roles, communication breakdowns, pressure overload, cultural misunderstandings, or trust erosion.
Without diagnosis, interventions often:
miss the real issue,
increase resistance,
or create short-term compliance with long-term cost.
What this diagnostic actually does
This assessment does not label people. It looks at how the system is functioning.
Specifically, it assesses patterns across:
Psychological safety and trust
Communication quality and conflict handling
Role clarity, responsibility, and leadership practices
Stress load, well-being, and lived economic pressure
Unity, motivation, and discretionary effort
Cross-cultural and language functioning
The result is a clear profile of where friction is coming from, and where the highest leverage points are.
Why this is different from typical surveys
Most surveys:
measure satisfaction,
or benchmark engagement,
or reduce complex realities to a single score.
But this diagnostic is designed for sense-making, not scoring. Our goal is to start valuabe conversations across your organisation that can get real results.
It is:
grounded in Industrial & Organisational Psychology
adapted for agricultural contexts
sensitive to language, hierarchy, and culture
built to support better conversations, not quick fixes
But, more than that, the value is not just the results, but what they allow you to see before you act.
What you get
When you complete the Full Team Functioning Diagnostic, you receive:
A structured results profile across key team functioning domains
Identification of likely system bottlenecks and pressure points
Context-aware interpretation prompts (not generic advice)
Practical next-step intervention ideas matched to your pattern
A clear pathway into a deeper diagnostic conversation, if needed
This creates clarity about what matters most right now, and what can wait.
Who this diagnostic is for
This assessment is suitable for:
Farm owners
Senior and middle managers
Packhouse and operations leaders
Multi-team or multi-language farm systems
It is especially useful where:
performance issues feel persistent but unclear
training hasn’t delivered expected results
tension exists between management and workers
language or cultural differences complicate communication
What it is NOT
This diagnostic is not:
a personality test
a performance appraisal
a compliance or disciplinary tool
a substitute for leadership judgment
It is a decision-support tool, designed to reduce blind spots.
Now, the following is especially important...
This assessment:
focuses on systems, not blame
avoids moralising results
recognises economic and cultural realities
is used to inform conversations, not justify decisions
Results are reviewed only to support diagnostic sense-making, conversation, and intervention.
What to do now
A paid diagnostic designed to bring clarity before action.
Complete the assessment to understand what is shaping performance on your farm, and whether your next step should be adjustment, support, or deeper diagnosis.
After completion, you can choose to:
Reflect and discuss with your team independently using the results, and/or
Book a diagnostic conversation with me to interpret the findings in your context
Possibly start a process to use these results to implement specific short- and long-term interventions to improve your team's functioning.
Go ahead and complete the form below to start!
(note: there is a small cost involved to separate those who are serious and those who are not).