Frequently Asked Questions
We created the OrgHealth Ascent Model as a concrete visual leadership teams can use to identify the four main components of organizational health and to explore the nuances of how each component effects 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 one-page report in their browser—simple, no hassle, and a great step forward.
- For one senior leader
- 12 questions
- 1-page report in browser upon completion
- Free
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 the challenges they are face in making progress should 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 form. 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
- Pricing bundled based on # of team members
This assessment is specifically tuned for the senior leadership team. We observe time and time again that working with teams when the senior leaders are NOT embracing the same work themselves is only moderately effective and ultimately frustrating. 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.
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 peaks of organizational health into these health levels. Your final results are related to what health level each peak is in, 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 “result” is not really the point of this assessment—the result simply helps us provide 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.
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.
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