teams attract highly motivated members, they often face challenges determining whether collaborative practices, leadership structures, and organizational routines are supporting meaningful integration and progress toward shared goals. Climate assessments provide a structured way to understand attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions of organizational conditions that shape collaboration. When conducted across multiple years, these assessments reveal patterns related to belonging, communication, clarity of roles, and support for integrative team science. They also clarify how organizational strategies influence the lived experiences of team members. This workshop presents a multi-year case study from an NSF Science and Technology Center. The Center’s internal climate assessments established a baseline in 2023 and have since been used to document change over time, identify improvements and challenges, and map results to specific organizational activities using Job Task Analysis and fidelity mapping. These steps show how climate evidence can guide leadership decisions and inform the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of teaming initiatives. Alongside these internal measures, the Center is piloting the Organizational Support for Critical Thinking, Innovation, and Integration (OSCTII). This validated external measure assesses organizational readiness for Organizational Support for Innovation (Focus: Convergence) and Organizational Support for Integration (Focus: Team Science) through the domains of Receptivity and Valuing Contributions. The instrument incorporates the Paul and Elder 35 Dimensions of Critical Thought as its structured content framework. This diagnostic lens identifies environmental support conditions that are necessary for integrative scientific work and for the full innovation to integration cycle in team science. By combining internal climate data with an external validated diagnostic framework, the Center has developed a comprehensive system for understanding organizational dynamics, strengthening team cohesion, and improving the design of structures that support integrative scientific work. Participants will learn how to adapt similar approaches to their own organizations.