What if you had a team dashboard, minimalist in style. It had a selection whereby you could choose one of 3 status for how your efforts were going: Red, Orange, Green.
At a certain time, you are prompted to pick one of the 3 status.
All team members pick their status - and the lead gets a weighted summary of overall status. If too many orange/red status are selected the team meeting gets called - if more green/orange then he can choose to defer, if mostly green then it says no meeting necessary.
You'll never know what other members pick and, by default, the lead wont know who picked what (unless he wanted to audit).
This would be an non-intrusive method of polling the team, without risk, as to whether or not a meeting was required.
I'm not sure I understand.. "won't know who picked what", and "without risk".. Are you trying to solve the problem of people being afraid to report that things aren't going great?
I think that's a dysfunction that should be repaired, not institutionalized.
What if you had a team dashboard, minimalist in style. It had a selection whereby you could choose one of 3 status for how your efforts were going: Red, Orange, Green.
At a certain time, you are prompted to pick one of the 3 status.
All team members pick their status - and the lead gets a weighted summary of overall status. If too many orange/red status are selected the team meeting gets called - if more green/orange then he can choose to defer, if mostly green then it says no meeting necessary.
You'll never know what other members pick and, by default, the lead wont know who picked what (unless he wanted to audit).
This would be an non-intrusive method of polling the team, without risk, as to whether or not a meeting was required.