Teamgage Huddle Leader Guide

This guide is designed to help leaders use Teamgage Huddle effectively to understand team feedback, interpret results, and take meaningful action to improve engagement, performance, and team experience over time.

Teamgage is most effective when feedback becomes part of regular team conversations, reflection, and continuous improvement, not just a one-off survey process.

About Teamgage

Teamgage is a real-time feedback platform that gives employees a voice and helps leaders take fast, informed action.

By collecting regular feedback at the team level, Teamgage helps leaders identify opportunities early, respond to emerging issues and strengthen the conditions that support team performance and engagement.

Key Benefits

1. Quick, regular feedback - Employees can provide meaningful, anonymous feedback in as little as 20 seconds, focused on areas aligned to your organisation’s priorities.
2. Real-time team insights - Leaders receive immediate visibility into team sentiment, trends, themes, and improvement opportunities.
3. Continuous improvement - Regular feedback cycles help teams reflect, adapt and improve over time rather than waiting for annual surveys or major issues to emerge.

Learn more about Teamgage here.

How to access Teamgage results

You can access your Teamgage results at any time by:

1. Clicking the Teamgage notification you receive
2. Logging into Teamgage using your work email
3. Bookmarking your results dashboard for quick access
   

Need help getting started?

Teamgage Huddle Leader Training is designed to help leaders build confidence in using feedback effectively to support engagement, communication, and continuous improvement within their teams.

These live 30-minute sessions are facilitated by a Teamgage expert and include:

1. Practical guidance on using Teamgage Huddle
2. Tips for interpreting results and leading discussions
3. Best practices for improving participation and engagement
4. Guidance on creating Actions and closing the feedback loop
5. Live Q&A and support

Whether you're new to Teamgage or looking to strengthen how you use feedback with your team, these sessions are a great place to start.

Register for an upcoming Leader Training session here.

Using Teamgage effectively

Encourage participation

Strong participation leads to better insights and more meaningful team discussions.

To encourage participation:

1. Regularly remind your team to submit feedback
2. Reinforce that submissions are anonymous
3. Explain why feedback matters
4. Share examples of improvements made from previous feedback

When employees can clearly see that feedback leads to action, participation and trust naturally improve over time.

Learn more about improving response rates here.

Review your insights regularly

Check your dashboard consistently and focus on the most important themes emerging from your results.

Rather than trying to solve everything at once:

1. Focus on 2–3 key themes each cycle
2. Look for trends and patterns over time
3. Discuss insights openly with your team

A simple framework for reviewing results is:

1. Stop - What is not working well and should be addressed, reduced or removed?
2. Start - What new ideas, behaviours or improvements could help the team?
3. Keep - What is already working well and should continue?

Helpful guides:

1. Understanding the Average Score in Huddle
   
2. Understanding the Huddle Metric Drilldown
   
3. Understanding the Average Score in Huddle
   

Focus on Actions, not just insights

Feedback creates value when it leads to meaningful follow-through. Create a small number of clear and achievable Actions that:

1. Address important issues
2. Build momentum through quick wins
3. Support team ownership and accountability

Small, practical Actions are often more effective than large or overly complex improvement plans.

Helpful guides:

1. What Are Actions?
   
2. How to Create Actions in Huddle
   
3. How to Track & Complete Actions
   

Share progress with your team

Closing the feedback loop is one of the most important parts of the Teamgage process. Use Shared Results and team discussions to communicate:

1. What your team is saying
2. What Actions are being taken
3. What progress has been made

Visible follow-through helps reinforce trust, transparency, and ongoing participation.

Use Sidekick to support reflection and action

If enabled for your organisation, Sidekick can help leaders:

1. Analyse team feedback
2. Identify key themes
3. Generate Action ideas
4. Support communication with teams

Helpful guides:

1. Using Sidekick in Teamgage
   
2. How to Create Actions Using Sidekick
   
3. Using Sidekick with Teamgage Conversations

Leading multiple teams

If you manage multiple teams, Teamgage helps you compare trends and identify patterns across your organisation.

You can:

1. Access aggregated results and Heatmaps
2. Drill into individual team dashboards
3. Share broader updates and Actions
4. Track report views, Actions, and shared results across teams

This helps leaders maintain visibility and consistency across larger teams or departments.

The Teamgage Leadership Framework

Teamgage is built on a set of principles that explain how feedback leads to continuous improvement in high-performing teams.

These principles help connect everyday actions in the platform to broader leadership behaviours such as listening safely, turning insight into action, and communicating progress with teams.

If you’re interested in understanding the thinking behind Teamgage and how it supports effective team performance, you can explore the Teamgage Leadership Framework here.

Recommended resources

1. Register for Teamgage Huddle Leader Training
   
2. How To Improve Your Team’s Huddle Response Rate
   
3. How To Increase the Number of Your Team’s Huddle Comments
   
4. Understanding Safety and Anonymity in Teamgage Conversations
   
5. Using Teamgage Conversations as a Leader
   

FAQs

Why is my results dashboard locked?

Your dashboard may be unavailable because:

1. Your team size is below anonymity thresholds
2. Your team has not yet received enough submissions

This helps maintain anonymity and psychological safety.

Learn more about how Teamgage protects anonymity here.

How do I remove inappropriate or offensive comments?

Use the moderation tools available in your dashboard to manage comments that breach organisational expectations or guidelines.

Learn more about how you can hide comments here.

What should I do if feedback is outside my control?

Acknowledge the feedback openly and escalate issues where appropriate.

Even when leaders cannot immediately solve a problem, transparent communication still helps build trust and credibility.

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