Culture Assessments
Find out if your culture is holding you back.
The first step in any culture change journey is getting a clear view of what your culture ACTUALLY is. Not what your core values posters say it is, not what the leadership team says it is—but what employees really experience, day-in and day-out. That requires getting under the surface and seeing your hidden culture patterns, because they often prevent you from living the culture you really want.
We offer two options for assessing your culture:
Full WorkXO Culture Assessment
Free Culture Pattern Quiz
WorkXO Culture Assessment
Are You Traditional, Contemporary, or Futurist?
Our full culture assessment is different from many others, because it doesn’t measure your culture as “good” or “bad.” Instead, it puts you on a continuum from traditional to futurist. You end up deciding how futurist you want to be (it’s not for everyone), but you must know your starting point, or your culture change will be misdirected and ineffective.
Culture Markers
These eight culture markers are how employees experience your workplace culture (so that’s what we measure).
Agility
How the organization manages change
Collaboration
How the organization facilitates working together
Growth
How the organization develops its employees
Inclusion
How the organization manages diversity and authenticity
Innovation
How the organization supports innovation and value creation
Solutions
How the organization addresses staff and customer needs
Technologies
How the organization embraces digital tools and mindset
Transparency
How the organization shares knowledge and builds trust
The culture assessment was extremely valuable, as it measured the current state of our firm and provided data points on a continuum — allowing us to assess what changes, if any, we wanted to make for the future.”
Principal and People Strategy Lead, Pinion Global
Culture Patterns
The real secret sauce is being able to see your culture patterns.
Discovering your culture patterns is the key to our assessment. For the full breakdown, check out our book Culture Change Made Easy, but here’s the short version: With each of the 8 culture markers, your organization likely does some things well—and struggles with others.
Why does that matter?
Because it blocks you from living the culture you want. Maybe your people are good at collaborating as individuals, but when groups (like departments) need to collaborate, it gets a little messy. Or you talk about innovation, but rarely experiment or beta test. These patterns could be holding your culture back.
Dynamic Analytical Tools
Not every group in your culture experiences it the same way.
One of the most powerful aspects of our assessment is the way you can compare different groups inside your culture in the online platform. Wondering how senior managers experience transparency compared to front line staff? You can find that out. Then see if the women in management see things differently than the men. This kind of nuanced analysis is where you pull out the most powerful insights.
Too small to take advantage of subgroup analysis?
We offer a discounted assessment for smaller organizations that includes all of your assessment data and an analysis of your culture patterns, but without access to the analytical tools in the online platform (that you don’t need anyway).
Culture Pattern Quiz
Uncover Your Organization’s Hidden Culture Patterns
While our full culture assessment provides a comprehensive, segmentable and detailed view of your workplace culture, this free quiz will give you a quick snapshot of the hidden culture patterns that may be present in your organization.
How It Works
Culture patterns are competing commitments inside your culture that prevent you from living your cultural values fully or as intended.
In this short quiz (16 questions) you can reveal if your culture suffers from patterns like awkward collaboration, lagging transparency, heavy agility, or incomplete innovation.
You can’t improve your culture until you know what it really is. This quiz gives you a head start.
Take the Free Quiz
Click the link below to discover your organization’s culture patterns! You’ll enter your name, organization, and email to receive your personalized report. It takes just a few minutes, and you’ll receive your results within 24 hours.
Schedule a Demo
Check out this quick video, or schedule a live demo with Jamie to see our assessments in action.