Assessments
Find out if your culture is holding you back.
The challenge with culture is that the important stuff is often invisible. I offer multiple assessments for pulling those invisible pieces out so you can find out hwo they might be messing with success and then fix them.
My newest assessment focuses on a piece of culture you didn’t know was there: your conflict system, and it includes a specific analysis around how your conflict system must be upgraded to thrive in an AI-enabled organiztiaon. Then there is the WorkXO Culture Assessment I have been using with organizations for more than 10 years which reveals key culture patterns (and there’s a free “culture pattern quiz” you can try as well).
AI and Conflict Readiness Assessment
WorkXO Culture Assessment (and Culture Pattern Quiz)
AI and Conflict
Readiness Assessment
Because “good fights” are required to thrive in the age of AI
AI scares a lot of people, but what scares me is AI’s potential for generating fast failure. We move faster and faster and skip over the important conflicts that generate the right decisions in the first place. For years we relied on a conflict system that evolved organically and naturally provided the space for the important friction we needed; now we need to design that intentionally. The AI and Conflict Readiness Assessment gives you concrete priorities for building an intentional conflict system that works in today’s world.
How It Works
Conflict System Scan A 20-question survey deployed to your staff (or a representative sample) that reveals how your conflict system is actually functioning across its core dimensions. Respondents answer based on what they actually observe, not what they wish were true. The result is an honest picture of where the system is working and where it’s breaking down.
Interviews Three to six focused conversations with people at different levels and functions. These provide the context and stories behind the survey data — the specific examples that make the findings real, and the AI-related dynamics that the survey alone can’t capture.
AI and Conflict Readiness Report A clear, actionable report tailored to your organization, including:
- An executive summary of your greatest conflict readiness risks and what’s driving them
- Findings across the core dimensions of your conflict system — where it’s strong, where it’s vulnerable, and what that’s costing you given your AI work
- A prioritized playbook of specific action items — concrete plays for strengthening your conflict system and building deliberate friction points where the right conversations need to happen.
The “Getting Ready” Session A two-hour working session with your senior leadership team, built around one question: Where are we not ready for the good fight in the age of AI, and what do we need to do or change that will get us there? The AI and Conflict Readiness Report is shared 48 hours in advance so your team arrives with a point of view. The session combines a discussion of key findings with a facilitated working conversation focused on the action playbook. You leave with shared understanding of your conflict readiness risks, alignment on priorities, and specific next steps to bring your system “up to code” in the context of your AI efforts
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Read the Project Prospectus
Click the link below to download a PDF describing the Assessment in more detail.
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.