Juliusz Fedyk
Co-creator of the Skillforests method. As a development lead, used its early form to grow a team of 5 into 17 specialists — by naming what the work actually took and training toward it, bottom-up.
Team Biome Assessment · free · 60 minutes
A free assessment of how knowledge and skill move through your team.
The Team Biome Assessment is a free 60-minute session for team leads and managers. We look at how knowledge travels through your team, how visible skills are, and how people grow. We analyse what dimensions your team excels at, what it can grow out of, and what requires leadership input. You get a short written report within a few days.
The Biome Scale
0 9 18 27 36 45 54
Barren ground Thriving biome Inside your team
Some problems live inside your team: skills that exist in exactly one head, juniors who can’t yet work alone, knowledge that never moves between people. These your team can grow out of — with a plan and a path.
One person knows the deploy pipeline
Two juniors still need review on everything
Nothing written down about the billing service
Your team can grow out of these.
Outside your team
Some problems live outside: shifting priorities, missing headcount, decisions made above you. No amount of training fixes these — but naming them clearly, in writing, changes the conversation you can have with your own leadership.
Roadmap changed three times this quarter
Two open positions unfilled since spring
Deadlines arrive as facts, not questions
These need naming, in writing, upward.
One hour. Every issue in one table — inside or outside, working or not. You leave knowing which is which, and what to do about each.
How the hour works
Walk the steps — the pages on the right fill in as they do.
Scorecards
complete · scores 0–9Team — Platform, 9 people, 2 juniors
Pressing — Q3 migration, one senior leaving
Coverage “nobody does infra cost work” 6
Work Decisions “dates come down already fixed” 3
Knowledge Mix “the billing rules live with Ana” 6
Knowledge Flow “work waits when she’s away” 4
Skill Visibility “a spreadsheet from last year” 3
Growth Pipeline “pairing works, promotion is vague” 5
One page per dimension in the real instrument — questions, your answers, the score.
Six dimensions scored — 6, 3, 6, 4, 3, 5
Radar
one shapeEvery dimension score, plotted on one page.
Biome health card
inside · outside Strengths Pairing habit is real
Growth areas Billing knowledge in one head
Support Training budget approved
Blockers Deadlines set without the team
Placement on the Biome Scale
0 9 18 27 36 45 54
Barren ground Thriving biome The dimensions
The Team Biome Assessment looks at how knowledge and skill actually move through your team: six dimensions, each with questions a manager can answer from a normal week. Mapping the skills themselves — who has what, and how deep — is what a SkillForest workshop does.
Coverage
Which skills does the work demand that nobody on the team has?
Work Decisions
Who decides who works on what — and when deadlines are set, does anyone ask what the team can actually deliver?
Knowledge Mix
What kinds of knowledge does the team run on — and which kind lives in exactly one head?
Knowledge Flow
Does knowledge move between people and onto paper — or does work wait when someone's away?
Skill Visibility
How are skills tracked today — and does the tracking feed anyone's career?
Growth Pipeline
How do juniors become seniors here — onboarding, training, promotion, and who's next in line?
The Team Biome Report
Short, written, yours within a few days:
- Your team’s placement on the Biome Scale, with what would move it toward thriving
- The radar snapshot across the six dimensions
- The Biome health card — every finding in a simple 2×2: strengths, growth areas, support, blockers
- Growth areas (inside) — each with a proposed way to grow out of it
- Blockers (outside) — documented clearly, with their impact, ready to take to your leadership
Every line in the report traces back to something you said in the hour — nothing gets invented after the call. And the blockers page tends to travel: it’s written to be forwarded upward, unedited.
Team Biome Report
Platform team · page 1Radar snapshot
Knowledge moves in conversation, not on paper. Written flow is the shortest way forward.
Biome Scale
0 9 18 27 36 45 54
Barren ground Thriving biome Strengths Pairing is a habit, not a policy
Growth areas Billing knowledge in one head
Support Training budget approved for H2
Blockers Deadlines set without the team
Growth areas (inside)
Blockers (outside)
Book your assessment
Free, and nothing to prepare. Online anywhere, or in person around Tokyo. One hour with your team lead, and a written report within a few days.
Thanks — we’ll reach out to schedule within a few days.
Online or in-person (Tokyo area), your choice.
Not ready to talk? Run it yourself.
The Team Biome Assessment Guide is the complete instrument, step by step: the six dimensions, every question, the scorecards, the radar, and the Biome health card — everything you need to assess your own team in about an hour. It’s part of the Skillforests documentation, free for subscribers.
Get the assessment guideThe free session is us running the assessment with you. If you’d rather run it yourself first, we’re happy to take a look at your results afterwards.
Questions people ask
What does it cost?
Nothing. The assessment is free for businesses and teams of any size.
Why free?
Because we'd rather give team leads the tools and help them see for themselves what skill management can do for their team — no pitch lands as well as that. There's no obligation and no pitch inside the hour.
Who should attend?
The team lead or manager — the person who sees the team daily. Just you is enough; it's not a team workshop.
Is it confidential?
Yes. What's discussed and what goes in the report stays between us and you.
Online or in-person?
Either. Online anywhere; in-person in the Tokyo area.
What do I need to prepare?
Nothing. If you've run the assessment guide yourself, bring your summary sheet — we'll start from your radar.
Stefan Nüsperling
Founder of NüWorks, licensed Management 3.0 facilitator, and specialist in growing intercultural, self-organizing teams in Japan. Brings the facilitation craft that turns a room of practitioners into a forest.