How this adviser reasons
Team Compass is not a catalogue and not a chatbot. It is a set of written rules, drawn from the Commission’s own guidance on team events, study visits and coaching, with language assistance on top.
What decides your result
1. What you describe becomes a set of needs
Your description and the facts you tick are turned into strengths on ten need dimensions — connection, clarity, ways of working, transition, trust and tension, energy and recovery, learning, purpose and meaning, direction and strategy, and how the management team itself works. You see this reading before anything is recommended, and you can correct it.
2. Written rules score each form of support
Each option is scored by rules that produce plain-language reasons for and against, each with an identifier. Rules also encode what the guidance actually says: team coaching works with up to fourteen people, funded events need two to six months’ notice depending on size, purely social days are not eligible for learning and development funding, a study visit is not team building. Every reason that fired is listed at the bottom of your result, so an HR colleague can check the logic.
3. Some situations change the answer entirely
Where the description points to conflict between named individuals, a wellbeing concern, sustained overload or a change that is still unfolding, the adviser will say so and steer away from a team event — towards mediation, the confidential counsellors, a conversation about workload, or simply more listening. Saying “not a team event” is a legitimate result.
4. Language help, never judgement
No language model is configured in this environment, so the reading of your text and the prose are produced from keywords and templates. The reasoning and the ranking are identical either way — they never depended on a model.
Reasoning engine version 1.0.0.
Data protection
- What is stored
- Your email address, what you write about the team, your answers to the follow-up questions, and what the adviser concluded and suggested.
- Why
- So you can come back to your consultation, so the summary can be emailed to you, and so that HR can see in aggregate what teams across the Commission are asking for — and improve what is on offer.
- Who can see it
- You. The Organisational Development team, for the purpose of improving the service. Anyone you choose to send your read-only share link to — that page shows the picture, the options and the reasoning behind them, and never what you wrote in your own words, your email address or your answers to the follow-up questions. Your consultation is never shared with your hierarchy.
- The insights view
- HR Correspondents see counts only: which needs come up, which options are recommended, what kinds of group ask. No text, no identities.
- Sign-in
- A single-use link, valid for 15 minutes, sent to your Commission address. No password is stored. Only a hash of the link is kept, never the link itself.
- Your rights
- To see, correct or delete your consultations, write to the Centre for Organisational Transformation at the address below.
Who to talk to
- Your first port of call
- Your HR Correspondent (HRC) in your DG
- Team events — Brussels
- HR C4 TEAM EVENTS (functional mailbox) — Brussels
- Team events — Luxembourg
- HR LUX TRAINING — Luxembourg
- Team events — JRC
- HR JRC TRAINING — JRC
- Coaching requests
- HR COACHING REQUESTS (functional mailbox)
- Corporate Coaching Service
- Corporate Coaching Service — HR COACHING
- Organisational development advice
- Centre for Organisational Transformation (DG HR A3) — ec-centre-for-organisational-transformation@ec.europa.eu
- Team walks
- EuSA leadership and team walks pages (list of accredited walking facilitators)
Where the guidance comes from
“Team Events — How To”, “Designing your team event: a toolkit for managers”, “Policy Study Visits — How To”, and the “Guidelines for Coaching at the European Commission”. Where those documents and this adviser disagree, the documents win — tell us, and we will fix the rule.