For Team Leaders: How to turn team insights into action with Sola
Leading a team effectively is challenging: balancing diverse personalities, managing conflict, keeping engagement high, and maintaining a positive culture takes constant effort. One of the biggest challenges leaders face is interpreting the often complex and nuanced feedback from surveys and assessments.
Feedback data can be dense, filled with jargon, or presented in ways that make it difficult to see the real underlying issues. Without a clear interpretation, this valuable information risks being ignored or misunderstood. This can further lead to decision paralysis or superficial fixes that don’t address root causes. In an era where agility and continuous improvement are essential, team leaders need tools that can distill complex insights into clear, actionable strategies that fit their unique team context.
How Sola helps
1. Turns team feedback into clear, actionable insights
Team surveys often generate rich but overwhelming data. Sola helps by distilling Core Drivers or Team Effectiveness results into clear summaries about how your team works together, highlighting strengths like shared values or agility, and flagging challenges like unclear expectations or uneven ownership. No digging through dashboards required, just practical, people-first insights.
2. Identifies the team behaviors that need attention
Not all feedback is equally urgent. Sola surfaces the interpersonal dynamics and behavioral patterns that could be holding your team back, such as breakdowns in trust, low psychological safety, or fragmented collaboration. By showing you where the friction is, Sola helps you focus your attention where it will have the greatest impact.
3. Links team insights to high-impact leadership actions
Once you know what’s working and what isn’t, Sola helps you take action. It offers tailored strategies grounded in behavioral science and your team’s unique feedback. Whether it’s providing assistance in designing a team reset workshop, shifting how you delegate, or building better peer accountability, Sola turns insight into momentum.
Step-by-step guide
1. Make sure your team has taken the assessment
Ensure your team has completed the Core Drivers or Team Effectiveness survey from Deeper Signals.
Once results are in, Sola automatically accesses them. No setup or uploads needed.
2. Ask for a clear summary of the results
Start with a prompt like:
“What are my team’s top strengths and biggest challenges?”
Sola returns a focused, easily digestible summary of your team’s feedback. No data wrangling required.
3. Explore action-oriented recommendations
Next, ask:
“What actions should I take to address these challenges and improve collaboration?”
Sola will respond with personalized, actionable ideas, like team exercises, ways to shift delegation patterns, or coaching prompts you can use in your next meeting.
4. Apply the insights right away
Put the recommendations into motion by:
- Structuring your next team meeting around one key insight
- Planning a short learning sprint on trust, ownership, or inclusion
- Using Sola’s coaching tips in your 1:1s or performance reviews
5. Revisit and adjust based on new feedback
When your team completes another round of feedback, return to Sola and ask:
“What’s changed in our team dynamics since the last assessment?”
This helps you track progress, recalibrate your leadership efforts, and stay responsive to your team’s evolving needs.
Best practices
- Use Sola as a guide, not a decision-maker. AI provides valuable insights but should complement, not replace, your judgment and direct conversations with your team.
- Be mindful of privacy and sensitivity. When sharing feedback insights, anonymize data where needed and create a safe space for open dialogue.
- Avoid over-relying on automated advice. Customize recommendations to fit your team’s context. No one-size-fits-all solution exists.
- Check prompt clarity. Clear, specific prompts help Sola generate the most relevant and actionable responses.
Open up Sola and explore your team’s latest feedback. Look beyond the scores, spot patterns, uncover blind spots, and discover exactly where your leadership can make the biggest difference today.
