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To win in the marketplace, you must first win in the workplace.

— Doug Conan

Best Culture assessments shape

Talgro's assessment solutions provide valuable insights into an organization’s predominant culture. They identify which behaviors, values and attitudes are given importance within the company and provide information on primary and secondary cultural nuances.

The PACE Culture survey evaluates how organizations approach decisions, and the values, beliefs and behaviors that leaders pay attention to. This results in four possible culture forms – Control, Collaboration, Cultivation and Competence cultures. The Culture survey allows organizations to identify their primary and secondary cultural nuances out of these four possible culture forms.

The Collaborative Elements Inventory (CEI) enables organizations to identify enablers and inhibitors of collaborative ways of working within the organization, or within different parts of the organization, as the case may be.

PACE shape Culture Survey

You don’t build a company, you build people, and then people build the company."
– Zig Ziglar.

The PACE Culture Survey is based on William Schneider’s Culture model and helps you recognize salient aspects of your organizational culture and its nuances.

image Identify your organization’s predominant culture
image Recognize and manage limiting and enabling leadership behaviors
image Become a more Agile and market-driven organization
image Align organization culture with your Vision, Mission & Values
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image Gain insights on how your Collaboration quotient impacts your organizational culture and leadership behaviors
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Collaborative shape Elements Inventory (CEI)

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
– Henry Ford.

This test helps you recognize how you view collaboration within your organization (or for a specific collaborative group within your organization)

CASE STUDYshape

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Industry

Energy & Renewables

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Challenge

The client (a leading global player in the Energy and Renewables sector) encountered three key challenges:

  • Exit interviews indicated that the majority of resignations stemmed from manager-related issues

  • Organizational culture lacked focus on nurturing and career development of employees

  • The environment was competitive and focused on individual contribution, adversely impacting collaboration and trust

  • There was a definitive presence of hierarchy-driven decisions, impacting innovation and autonomy

A leading global player in the Energy and Renewables sector, known for its robust market presence, faced significant internal challenges despite its historical growth. While the company had shown rapid growth and scale, concerns about its leadership approach and workplace culture had begun to surface, plausibly threatening its continuing growth and marketplace dominance. Employee surveys and exit interviews highlighted underlying issues affecting employee retention, prompting the organization to reevaluate its management practices. Seeking to create a more supportive and growth-oriented environment, the company aimed to enhance employee satisfaction and long-term stability.

Our Solution

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Immersion-Stage 1
Interactions:
  • C-suite team

  • People managers across levels

  • Select employees who had exited

Findings:
  • Managers had blind spots regarding their management style

  • Employees felt unheard and commoditised

  • Managers themselves felt the same way about their managers

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Diagnosis-Stage 2
Administering scientific tools across a sample of employees
  • PACE Culture survey (taken by 250 employees across levels)

  • CEI test (taken by 300 people across businesses)

Findings:
  • Predominance of Control and Competence culture

  • Lack of autonomy and flexibility

  • Adverse impact on innovation and Agility

  • Attrition of top talent and negative impact on brand reputation

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Curated Solution-Stage 3
Interventions with top team including CEO & C-suite group
  • Revisiting Vision, Mission and Values

  • Reaching agreement on the desired cultural construct

  • Gaining commitment from top team to drive the transformation

Key aspects of the Culture transformation:
  • Driving awareness and the desire for change across the organization

  • Building capability required for transformation through coaching and learning

  • Establishing desired leadership behaviours

  • Changes to management systems and processes

  • Reinforcing change and realizing value

What we helped our client achieve

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Employee retention across levels increased by
47%
145%
Collaboration quotient increased by a whopping
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Employee engagement survey scores increased by
58%
42%
Manager effectiveness index improvement of
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Organizational culture significantly impacts various aspects of a business, including employee engagement, productivity, innovation, and overall success

  • Research has found that 58% employees leave jobs because of negative workplace cultures, emphasizing that culture is a key driver of turnover.

  • Organizations with a strong culture are 2.5 times more likely to be high-performing, and employees are 26% more likely to be “very satisfied” with their jobs.

  • 77%of job seekers consider a company's culture before applying for a job, and 56% say company culture is more important than salary when it comes to job satisfaction.

  • A survey reveals that 56% of millennials, who now represent the largest workforce group, prioritize culture fit over other job factors.

  • Organizations with strong performance-driven cultures achieve a 200% greater chance of exceeding financial targets.

  • Employees’ overall ratings of their company’s qualities — like collaboration, work environment, and mission and value alignment — are 20% higher at companies with strong cultures.

  • 86% of employees in strong cultures feel their senior leadership listens to employees.

  • 90% of employees at winning company cultures are confident in their company’s leadership team.

  • 13 companies that have appeared on Fortune’s annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list every year also see higher average annual returns with cumulative returns as high as 495%