Welcome to the Ascent Assessment for Teams
Your team leader has taken an important step by choosing the Ascent Assessment to help enhance your team’s organizational health. This assessment is designed to offer actionable insights that strengthen communication, alignment, and overall effectiveness within your senior leadership team, and point you towards how to cascade this into every level of your organization.
You will receive (or perhaps already have) an email from us inviting you to submit your responses. But you might have some questions: here's a quick overview.
How Does the Assessment Work?
The Ascent Assessment is grounded in the OrgHealth Ascent Model, which focuses on aligning your team’s performance with the four core elements of organizational health:
- Collaborative Culture - the core; evaluating psychological safety, commitment to collective wins, and how well the values on paper are being lived out
- Leadership Accountability - the pivot point; evaluating the ELT's ownership of company culture, the impact of their behaviours, and how much clarity they have about their roles
- Strategic Momentum - the rudder; evaluating the company's strategy, proactive adaptability, and sustainable profitability
- Talent Magnetism - the beacon lit by the other three elements; evaluating best-fit attraction, engagement strategies, and the use of meaningful rewards in retention strategies
As a team, you'll each submit your insights on 28 rating-style questions, and our final report will reflect back how well your team operates against these four benchmarks. From your scores, the report will also provide insights and suggestions, and help you align around the most powerful actions to take to strengthen your team and organization as a whole.
What’s Next for You?
Here’s what to expect and what you need to do:
- Look Out for Your Email Invitation
You’ll soon receive an email invitation to complete your portion of the assessment. This will include a deadline for submission and reminders to ensure everyone stays on track. - Submit Your Responses (15-20min)
Completing the assessment will take about 15–20 minutes. Your honest input is crucial, as the findings depend on authentic and thoughtful participation. - Prepare for the Virtual Debrief (~60min)
Once all responses are in, your team’s report will be generated, and you’ll receive it prior to the scheduled debrief meeting. You’ll also be asked to complete an exercise to reflect on the findings and bring your observations to the discussion. - Engage in the Team Debrief (90min)
During the 90-minute virtual debrief, your team will review the assessment results with a consultant who will guide the discussion. This meeting is designed to foster open dialogue, highlight key insights, and set the foundation for actionable strategies moving forward.
Frequently Asked Questions
We know you have them (or you wouldn't be scanning this page), and you aren't the first. Here's a bit more info for the curious types.
We get it, this is almost everyone's first question. For you? About 3 hours total. Your team leader will spend about 5 hours total. Consider the balance of "important and urgent": some of the most important things are not "urgent", but if neglected, result in massive losses. This assessment process will help you prioritize, balance, and align as a team around both the urgent and important in the time it would take you to watch the movie Oppenheimer. (We assure you that the content of those 3 hours is drastically different.)
The invite email is titled: "Your OrgHealth Ascent Assessment Invitation", and the sender is "OrgHealth Team". Take a look through your spam folder and try searching for one of those items. If that doesn't turn up anything, you can reach out to ascent@orghealthteam.com to troubleshoot.
Whichever is most convenient for you! Our assessment is a web app that works about the same on any device or internet browser.
The consultant working with your team will send out specific instructions—part of the value of working with them is that they tailor the exercise to the results and what they've learned about your company's goals and challenges so far in quick discussion with your CEO (or whatever your team leader's title is). Usually, it will direct you to various pages in the report and ask you to write down some reflections that strike you so you can think in advance and bring some deeper observations to the debrief discussion.
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!
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