5. You can also assess the group’s or team’s overall ability to perform these competencies.

The column marked “Group Assessment” can be used to record your overall impressions of how effectively the group or team behaved. Circle NO if no one in the group performed a particular competency. Circle YES if at least one person in the group or team performed this competency. Then evaluate how well the entire group performed this competency, using the scale already described.

Sometimes it is difficult to make so many judgments about group competencies by just viewing a group discussion once. Many people find that it’s easier to make a video recording of the group discussion so that they can observe it more than once.