The CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® Survey provides insights to help you create the culture your organization needs to execute your strategy and achieve your goals. This is our deep-dive foundation survey based on decades of research into the factors most influential in creating high performance cultures. It answers questions such as, “In what ways and to what extent does our culture support or impede strategy execution and goal achievement?”
This 85-item survey provides rich data for priority setting and for developing practical, high impact action strategies for shaping culture. It is founded on constructs from both national and organizational culture, so it is well positioned for a wide range of organizations from large global companies to small partnerships. This survey will help you:
- Align culture with strategy – how your culture is supporting or getting in the way of executing your strategy and achieving your goals.
- Leverage your culture strengths – cultural DNA to build on.
- Identify culture development needs – what to strengthen for the future.
- Describe sub-culture differences – distinctive differences between groups.
- Set culture change priorities – opportunities with the potential to have the greatest impact on performance.
- Take targeted action – develop practical action strategies for sustained change.
- Measure culture change over time – monitor progress with real data.
WHAT IS INCLUDED?
- Your Culture Story (comprehensive report): Our culture experts deconstruct the data to tell the story of your culture – What is our existing belief system? What do we need to protect and leverage? What may need to change given our strategy and goals?
- Thematic analysis of answers to the open-ended questions.
- PPT and PDF reports of the data (totals plus 3 comparisons) that includes a Culture Scorecard (overall results), Culture Profile (group comparison), High/Low Items, Scorecarded Data Displays, verbatim answers to the open-ended questions.
- A walk through of your results via webinar.
OPTIONS
Several options are available for purchase.
- Executive Summary: PPT of key takeaways for divisions, business units or other groups; purchase includes a 1-hour webinar review of the survey results ($3500 USD per report)
- Data Reports: Additional reports comparing the results by groups or segments such as business units by department or tenure ($150 USD per report).
- Report Debriefs: Additional webinar ($750 USD per webinar) or in-person ($2000 USD per half day plus expenses) report debriefs.
- Knowledge Transfer & Coaching: Workshops or hourly coaching on topics of your choice ($425 USD per hour).
For more information, download the CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® Survey Brochure here.
Your Culture Story
Our culture experts deconstruct your survey results to uncover the values, assumptions, and beliefs that are influencing decisions and behaviors. By interpreting your results ‘in context’, we help you understand how your culture is enabling or interfering with strategy execution, employee engagement, and performance. This provides you with the insights you need to take a targeted approach to building a culture that leverages your strengths while making the changes required to achieve your goals.
The following is an example of a client’s culture story. This is a successful company that has been in business for 25 years over which time it has grown from a small local provider of transportation services to nation-wide operations with aspirations for global expansion. Its success has been powered in large part by its people who go above and beyond to help customers, each other, and the company. These are strengths to be cherished and preserved however they also create some challenges. Click on the icon below to read their story.
Additonal Information
Overview
The CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® Survey consists of 85+ scaled items that examine 35 patterns of behavior and practices across eight culture dimensions. Consider adding a strategic module such as Customer Experience, Innovation, Operational Excellence, or Driving Change to delve more deeply into the question of culture fit to strategy. The survey results are analyzed by a culture expert who deconstructs the data to reveal underlying beliefs and assumptions. The result is a comprehensive story of your culture.
Measuring Culture
The CULTURESTRATEGYFIT® Survey uses a scorecard approach to reveal the story of the culture and how it aligns with strategy. It helps organizations quickly identify culture strengths and areas requiring attention. A Culture Profile reveals differences by Group and/or Level. Bar graphs by culture dimension, such as Agility and score carded culture patterns such as Risk-Taking help unpack the story of the way culture is operating. By examining the way culture patterns inter-relate within and across dimensions, culture dynamics can be identified that create unique organizational DNA or impede future success.
Your culture is unique and a potential source of competitive differentiation. For this and other reasons, we believe that comparisons to external benchmarks while interesting can cause more harm than good. Of greater value is the interpretation of your survey results in context to identify what it most important to your organization.
Fast Facts
- Globally appropriate, research-based survey.
- Analysis by our culture experts who tell the ‘story’ of your culture.
- 85 items assess 35 patterns within 8 culture dimensions; option to add a strategic module, such as customer experience or innovation, and/or engagement drivers.
- 2 to 3 open-ended questions add context and color to your data.
- 20 to 25 minute on-line confidential survey accessible 24×7.
- Offered in 16 languages with reports in English.
- User-friendly, rapid activation.
WHEN TO USE THIS SURVEY
Consider this survey when you need to:
- Establish a hard-to-imitate culture as a competitive advantage.
- Deliver new strategies and accelerate transformation.
- Align your culture to your brand promise.
- Get rid of culture drag preventing people from doing and being their best.
- Bolster productivity and invigorate people.
- Attract and retain exceptional talent.
- Manage the risk of ethical, integrity, or other violations.
HOW IT WORKS
Our Culture Resource Center partners with you to provide a quality survey experience for all parties. A simple Intake Form captures your requirements. Within 72 hours, your survey is setup and ready to go. Working together, we determine the best option for accessing the survey, complete a test, and finalize details. For participants, completing the survey is convenient and user-friendly with confidentiality guaranteed. For data security, we employ industry-leading privacy and security measures. This results in better participation rates, increased candor and data accuracy, plus greater satisfaction with the survey process.