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Move the Needle on Organizational Capacity.

What could your organization accomplish with a clearer understanding of the collective capacity available to do the work?

From corporate gatherings to individual teams and organization-wide initiatives, the Team Energy Barometer℠ helps make collective energy, focus, and readiness visible—so people can see where they stand, explore what's getting in the way, and strengthen their ability to move important work forward together.

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One Instrument. Multiple Organizational Applications.

Corporate Gatherings & Workshops

Bring participants into a shared picture of collective capacity during an all-hands, leadership offsite, strategic planning session, corporate retreat, or facilitated workshop.

Take one reading or compare readings throughout the gathering to see how capacity shifts.

Teams & Departments

Give teams a simple, repeatable way to understand their collective energy, explore what's affecting capacity, and identify practical ways to strengthen how they work together.

Use readings during regular meetings, important projects, or periods of change.

The Organization as a Whole Team

Bring participating team readings together to understand the larger organizational picture.

Explore collective patterns, identify where support may be needed, and track capacity over time. Expanded organizational capabilities are in development.

One Reading. A Meaningful Shift. Or a Longer View.

Take a Snapshot

Capture collective capacity at a single moment.

Measure the Shift

Compare readings within a workshop, event, or meeting.

Track over Time

See how collective capacity changes across multiple gatherings or team sessions.

Digital, Analog, or Hybrid. Your Choice.

Enter counts gathered through an in-person activity now. Instant personal-device responses and combined digital/analog collection are in development; all will use the same six-state methodology.

The manual experience records attendance, response count, and participation rate for each reading, with comparisons and print/PDF. Free leader accounts can save sessions and compare their own team’s history. Automated organizational reporting remains in development.

A single reading is valuable on its own; repeated readings are optional. A corporate gathering can be a temporary group, while ongoing programs may involve established teams and departments.

WRISE Executive Summit 2026

See What Can Shift in 80 Minutes.

At the WRISE Leadership Forum Executive Summit, women leaders from across clean energy participated in facilitated workshops exploring AI, enterprise leadership, and the future of clean energy organizations. Beginning and ending readings captured participants' self-reported collective bandwidth.

WRISE beginning reading: average self-reported capacity 3.67, between guarded and steady.

Beginning Reading

3.67

Between Guarded and Steady

WRISE ending reading: average self-reported capacity 4.43, between steady and resourced.

Ending Reading

4.43

Between Steady and Resourced

Movement: +0.76 points

Across approximately 80 minutes · average self-reported readings

Participants collectively reported greater capacity at the end of the workshops. The Barometer made that movement visible, providing a tangible way to reflect on how participants experienced the session.

An example for all-hands meetings, executive summits, leadership offsites, strategic planning workshops, and facilitated gatherings—not evidence that the instrument caused the shift, that each individual improved, or that business performance increased.

New Sun Road · Three-Workshop Team Engagement

See How Team Capacity Evolves Over Time.

Permission to Bloom used the Team Energy Barometer during a three-workshop engagement with New Sun Road, a clean energy company. Readings helped inform facilitation as the team worked through competing priorities, alignment, and practical improvements.

New Sun Road Workshop 1: Strained ↔ Guarded. Original qualitative reading; no numeric score.

Workshop 1

Strained ↔ Guarded

The team was managing significant demands and approaching its work with caution.

New Sun Road Workshop 2: Guarded. Original qualitative reading; no numeric score.

Workshop 2

Guarded

The team was moving toward clearer shared alignment and addressing important issues.

New Sun Road Workshop 3: Guarded, With Upward Traction. Original qualitative reading; no numeric score.

Workshop 3

Guarded, With Upward Traction

The team was recognizing process improvements, strengthening boundaries, and becoming more ready to optimize.

Across three workshops, the Barometer helped the team see its capacity in context, recognize movement, and support more focused conversations about priorities and ways of working.

The value of repeated readings is not simply a higher number. It is recognizing changes, exploring what contributes to them, and supporting better decisions and shared work. Engagement outcomes are not attributed solely to the Barometer.

Read the New Sun Road Case Study

Future organizational capabilities

From Team Readings to Organizational Insight.

Each team has its own collective experience. Together, those teams form the larger organizational system carrying the work.

Within Each Team

Team members contribute anonymously. Everyone sees the collective team reading and uses guided questions to explore what would strengthen capacity.

Across the Organization

With appropriate privacy protections, participating teams' responses can contribute to a broader view of collective capacity and patterns related to priorities, resources, relationships, and organizational change.

Shared team reading

Shared team reading

Shared team reading

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Participating teams together—not rankings. Each team retains its own shared results. Illustrative system, not a live organizational reading.
  • No individual employee scores, performance proxies, or department rankings.
  • Respect minimum response and group-size thresholds; at least three responses are required for a displayable reading.
  • Aggregate underlying response counts using the approved methodology—not averages of team needle positions.
  • Account for respondent numbers, changing participation, and team composition between readings.
  • Distinguish one company-wide all-hands reading from aggregated separate team readings.
  • Prevent small-group inference through filtering or comparisons.

From Awareness to Action.

See Capacity Before Making Demands.

Gain a clearer understanding of the collective energy and readiness available for important work.

Explore What's Helping or Getting in the Way.

Use team readings to open practical conversations about priorities, workload, alignment, resources, and ways of working.

Measure What Changes.

Return during an event, across workshops, or over time to understand how collective capacity shifts.

A reading is a starting point for inquiry, not a diagnosis of organizational health or a measure of individual productivity.

Bring the Barometer Into Your Organization.

From one-time corporate workshops to recurring team readings and broader organizational applications, we're exploring expanded capabilities with HR, People, executive, and organizational development leaders.

  • Corporate event and workshop pulse programs
  • Repeated team capacity readings
  • Multi-team initiatives
  • Organizational capacity insights and reporting
  • Advisory and facilitated sessions to interpret results and strengthen execution

Some organizational capabilities are in development. Paid enterprise dashboards, automated organization-wide reporting, and multi-team subscription plans are not currently available.

Tell us what you're hoping to understand or accomplish, and let's explore how the Barometer could support your teams.

Ready to Move the Needle?

Whether you're bringing leaders together for one important conversation or building a sustained practice across teams, the Barometer can help make collective capacity part of how your organization moves forward.