Identify, prioritize, and take action on your company's core organizational health needs.
The OrgHealth Ascent AssessmentTM demystifies organizational health for executive teams and helps you take the right next step with speed and confidence.
Demystify organizational health.
Vague concepts help no one. Gain alignment and language as a leadership team about what you’re actually aiming at using the OrgHealth Ascent Model.
Identify your team's target areas.
Getting a shared picture of where you’re at now is expedited through pointed questions, mechanized evaluation, and a comprehensive report.
Align on the right action steps.
The Ascent Assessment provokes pointed discussion, suggests action steps, and helps your executive team prioritize the right commitments.
Stop guessing where to go next
Address complicated organizational health challenges with confidence. Here's how it works.
Our system sends out email invitations and reminders to ensure timely, anonymous responses. It takes 10-20 minutes to thoughtfully respond to the 28 questions, which can be completed on any device.
The power of this assessment is in our insistence on insight-led action. This 50-minute call will help you reflect on some initial team results and plan for the most productive (and courageous) discussion as a team.
This ~30pg report scores your organization on all four elements of the OrgHealth Ascent Model and breaks down the spread of responses, suggests what your results indicate, and prioritizes action steps.
You can choose a 90-minute guided virtual debrief with one of our consultants or to work through the report on your own. We provide some tips for self-facilitation, or when we guide your team we also provide a Next Steps Summary report.
Shawn Good
CEO, Libro Credit Union
Discover the OrgHealth Ascent Model
The complete picture of organizational health can be broken into four elements, and each element interacts with the others in a particular way. This model gives simple language for better clarity in discussion, and helps you drill down to the core issues rather than spending resources patching holes.
A report that provokes discussion and implementation
Asking the right questions is powerful. Our report curates these questions for you to ensure the right topics get on the table, gives credence and concreteness to factors that often get sidelined, and drives your team to aligned commitment on the right priorities.
A process engineered for measurable progress
Due process, surface fixes, and actions without commitment undercut organizational health in companies everywhere. Information alone is not the solution: informed, engaged implementation is. The Ascent Assessment prioritizes your team’s alignment and engagement in making the right changes real.
Take the individual version of the Ascent Assessment for free—right now, if you want!
The Ascent Assessment for Individuals is a great way to get an initial pulse on your organization’s health, and it’s available to any senior leader, no cost.
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Get the best start possible with a guided debrief
If getting healthy was easy, we would all do it. In reality, the topics that most need to be addressed are often sensitive, discussion easily gets into the weeds or dominated by certain voices, and not everyone shows up or leaves with the same expectations. We want your team to get the most progress from engaging in this process. Our Assessment + Debrief package is for teams who want the best return on their investment.
Expert third-party facilitation
An OrgHealth consultant helps your team manage dynamics that feel too touchy or have become invisible norms, and brings organizational health expertise to the table.
Highly engaging 90min discussion
This is a high-stakes conversation, and we consider it our responsibility to keep everyone (even over Zoom) contributing to momentum right to the end.
Additional report post-debrief
After the debrief, we will provide you with a concise summary of your action commitments that you can bring to your monthly meetings to measure against.
Take your first action step
These three options are our promise to make organizational health guidance accessible to everyone and optimized for where your team is at.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you're a "pick up the phone" kind of person: we would love to talk with you. But here are some quick answers to give a bit more clarity right away.
We created the OrgHealth Ascent Model as a concrete visual that leadership teams can use to identify the four main elements of organizational health and to explore the nuances of how each element affects the whole. You can read a more in-depth explanation here.
The OrgHealth Ascent Assessment for Individuals is for a senior leader who wants a high-level evaluation of their team’s health (based on their own perspective of the situation) along with recommended actions to take based on identified strengths and weaknesses. Just one person, filling out twelve quick questions, and receiving a one-page report in their browser—simple, no hassle, and a great step forward.
- Free
- For one senior leader
- 12 questions
- 1-page report in browser upon completion
The OrgHealth Ascent Assessment for Teams is for senior leadership teams of companies who are sold on the value of organizational health conceptually, but acknowledge there are nuances to the challenges they face that need to be understood and addressed head-on. This assessment is for the whole senior leadership team (and only the senior leadership team) and involves 28 rating-style questions which can be completed in 20 minutes or less. The ~30 page report can be generated once all team members have submitted their ratings, and provided to team members in PDF format. The report is designed with an emphasis on guiding your team most effectively through discussion of the data, considering recommended actions, and agreeing on definitive next steps to track and follow up on.
- For all members of senior leadership team
- 28 questions
- 30-page PDF report generated upon all team members' completion
There are some differences between the Individual and Team versions, but it’s mostly in how specific we get with reporting the numbers and making suggestions to you. For the most part, we divide your health level into High (70%-100%), Medium (31-69%), or Low (0-30%), and score each of the four elements of organizational health into these health levels. Your final results are related to the health level of your score for each of the elements, which will trigger one of 15 potential overview outcomes.
However, the real value is in the nuance, so we would remind you to work through the report diligently as a team. The “score” is not really the point of this assessment—the results of the assessment simply help us provide the questions and suggestions to your team that will be most relevant for you as you dive into conversations that might be complex or previously avoided. The real “results” of the assessment are the commitments you make to improve your organization’s health!
This is a question we constantly asked ourselves while creating the report. It is laid out so you can gather as a team, hand out printed copies to each team member, and use it to provide structure and checkpoints as you discuss the results and what it means.
Action is the goal of this report! But it should be thoughtful action that has the full commitment of the whole team. We provide discussion questions, relevant insights based on trends, as well as anonymous but specific ratings on each question from the assessment. At the end, we help you make definitive decisions together on the actions that everyone will take.
We facilitate these discussions for our clients, but if your team is running through the report without an external facilitator, we recommend sending the report to your team before the meeting to allow advance processing for those who need it. You might consider requesting that different team members facilitate different sections of the report, “chair-ing” that portion of the conversation, since the goal is to get everyone’s voices into the discussion equally.
This assessment is specifically tuned for the executive team. We observe time and time again that companies in which the senior leaders are NOT the most engaged and committed to growth in the target areas results in only moderate impact (at best) and ultimately frustration for everyone involved. Change doesn’t happen at the level it needs to without real buy-in at the highest level of influence in the company.
We don’t recommend this assessment to teams at other levels. We don’t moderate this, though—if you want to make mental adjustments for verbiage and adjust its application to your own context, you make your own call! Let us know if you find it to be valuable.