Culture Health Assessment

Culture Health Assessment

Every company has a culture. Some organizations create it consciously and others unconsciously. Fact is that in sport as in life you are only able to deliver your best and achieve outstanding results, when you are healthy and in top shape. In business it is no different. Your cultural health determines how well your organization and your people can perform. You might be able to push your employees to achieve short term success even when the culture is toxic, but it is not sustainable and people will burn out or leave.

If one or more of the following applies, then chances are that your organizations’ culture is unhealthy or maybe even toxic.

  • high staff turnover or absenteeism
  • increasing customer complaints or loss of customers
  • high or rising quality costs and wastage
  • low or sinking productivity
  • low or sinking profitability
  • find it hard to attract talent
  • poor rating on www.glassdoor.com

Best Employers are quite the opposite. They tend to have very healthy cultures and they tend to create out-performance. They tend to attract and retain the best talent with relatively low staff turnover, high customer retention, low quality costs, good productivity, profitability and sales growth and they score highly on our Cultural Health Assessment.

Five aspects to Cultural Health

  1. High alignment between what is personally important to the employees and what they experience at work every day. If you find what is important to you in your life at work, you will love going to work.
  2. High congruence between what employees currently experience at work and what they are wishing for in terms of an environment that would allow them to perform at their best. This is the perfect ground for a high-performance culture.
  3. High alignment between what is personally important to the employees and what they want to create. This shows you whether people have the potential to create the culture they desire, because it is personally important to them.
  4. Low number of limiting values such as blaming or complaining. Any number below 10% is healthy. You will always have some healthy debate going on but if you have 20, 30 or even 40% of limiting values, there is a lot of energy and time wasted trying to deal with these issues.
  5. High willingness to recommend the company as a great place to work to friends. This shows that life is good in this company and that you want to share it with others so they can enjoy it too.

How we measure Cultural Health?

All employees can participate in our Culture Health Assessment anonymously so they feel safe to give honest feedback to the four key questions, being:

  1. Please select ten of the following values or behaviors that most reflect who you are, not who you desire to become.
  2. Please select ten of the following values or behaviors that most reflect how your organizations currently operates.
  3. Please select ten of the following values or behaviors that you would desire for your organization to achieve its highest performance.
  4. How likely are you to recommend your organization as a great place to work to a friend.

Depending on your perceived challenges you may want to run some different demographic cuts of the data to have a deeper understanding of the challenges and the strengths. You can analyze the data by function, by gender, by age, by leadership level, by teams etc.

To inquire about our Culture Health Assessment for your organization contact us today by email qa@peaqpartners.com or call us on +41 44 586 86 77.