A great measuring tool.
Mark Drayton
Managing Director, Integrated Reliability Solutions
Silver Standard in workplace culture:

Staff rate the 25 behavioural standards an average of above 2.5 on a five-point scale where 5 is perfection. Staff members are unlikely to be giving discretionary effort.
Entry level Cultural Health Benchmark – urgent action required to turn the culture around.
Silver Standard Cultural Health Check™
The following process has been undertaken by this licensed organisation
- The organisation has a declared and published set of values that describe its aspirational culture. These values are drawn from the organisation’s authentic purpose.
- The Cultural Health Check™ independent verification program commences with all team members of the enterprise completing A Values Inventory (AVI)™ by logging on to the Minessence Group’s secure fileserver where the AVI is resident.
- In organisation-wide workshops, team members described the organisation’s values in idealised behavioural terms. These terms were drawn in large part from the Minessence Values Profile™ generated from the AVI.
- It is at this point that the elusive alignment between individual values and the organisation’s aspirational values is achieved.
- Team members then identified the toxic opposite behaviours of these idealised behaviours.
- Each behavioural pair was arranged on opposite ends of a five point scale.
- Organisation-wide team workshops achieved consensus around five qualitative measures in the form of behaviour pairs for each of the organisation’s values.
- The Culture Doctor’s® Cultural Health Check™ online tool was populated with these agreed behaviour pairs.
- All team members of the enterprise were invited to logon anonymously to the Minessence Group’s secure fileserver and access the tool using a unique identifier to score all behaviour pairs in terms of that team member’s personal experience of the described behaviours.
- When all members had scored the Cultural Health Check™ online tool, a Cultural Health Check™ report was produced and analysed by The Culture Doctor®. The instrument is a ‘blunt’ measure and scores are rounded to the nearest whole number.
- It is at this stage in the ASK, LISTEN, ACT, ASK AGAIN™ process of the Cultural Health Check™ that qualitative measures agreed upon at the workshops are converted to quantitative measures.
- To achieve a Silver Standard Cultural Health Check™ the organisation’s aggregated score across all measures achieved a three-rating, independently verified by The Culture Doctor®.
- The belief-based culture of this organisation which achieved an average rating of three is at industry standard according to its people and is independently verified at a Silver Standard by The Culture Doctor®.
- The Cultural Health Check™ reveals internal strengths and weaknesses and informs the ACT stage about where strategy might be best placed to take the standard of cultural health of the organisation to the next standard.
Gold Standard in workplace culture:

Staff rate the 25 behavioural standards an average of above 3.5 on a five-point scale where 5 is perfection. This is a level in which some discretionary effort is likely to occur. The organisation has gone from ‘Fair’ to Good.
Areas that have improved are identified, along with areas that still need work.
Gold Standard Cultural Health Check™
The following process has been undertaken by this licensed organisation
- The organisation has a declared and published set of values that describe its aspirational culture. These values are drawn from the organisation’s authentic purpose.
- The Cultural Health Check™ independent verification program commences with all team members of the enterprise completing A Values Inventory (AVI)™ by logging on to the Minessence Group’s secure fileserver where the AVI is resident.
- In organisation-wide workshops, team members described the organisation’s values in idealised behavioural terms. These terms were drawn in large part from the Minessence Values Profile™ generated from the AVI.
- It is at this point that the elusive alignment between individual values and the organisation’s aspirational values is achieved.
- Team members then identified the toxic opposite behaviours of these idealised behaviours.
- Each behavioural pair was arranged on opposite ends of a five point scale.
- Organisation-wide team workshops achieved consensus around five qualitative measures in the form of behaviour pairs for each of the organisation’s values.
- The Culture Doctor’s® Cultural Health Check™ online tool was populated with these agreed behaviour pairs.
- All team members of the enterprise were invited to logon anonymously to the Minessence Group’s secure fileserver and access the tool using a unique identifier to score all behaviour pairs in terms of that team member’s personal experience of the described behaviours.
- When all members had scored the Cultural Health Check™ online tool, a Cultural Health Check™ report was produced and analysed by The Culture Doctor®. The instrument is a ‘blunt’ measure and scores are rounded to the nearest whole number.
- It is at this stage in the ASK, LISTEN, ACT, ASK AGAIN™ process of the Cultural Health Check™ that qualitative measures agreed upon at the workshops are converted to quantitative measures.
- To achieve a Gold Standard Cultural Health Check™ the organisation’s aggregated score across all measures achieved a four-rating, independently verified by The Culture Doctor®.
- The belief-based culture of this organisation which achieved an average rating of four is at a good standard. This standard is above what would be regarded as industry standard according to its people and is independently verified at a Gold Standard by The Culture Doctor®.
- The Cultural Health Check™ reveals internal strengths and weaknesses and informs the ACT stage about where strategy might be best placed to take the standard of cultural health of the organisation to the next standard.
Platinum Standard in Corporate Culture:

Staff rate the 25 behavioural standards an average of above 4.5 on a five-point scale where 5 is perfection. Discretionary Effort from most staff abounds at this Cultural Health benchmark.
The organisation has gone from ‘Good to Great’ (Jim Collins)
Platinum Standard Cultural Health Check™
The following process has been undertaken by this licensed organisation
- The organisation has a declared and published set of values that describe its aspirational culture. These values are drawn from the organisation’s authentic purpose.
- The Cultural Health Check™ independent verification program commences with all team members of the enterprise completing A Values Inventory (AVI)™ by logging on to the Minessence Group’s secure fileserver where the AVI is resident.
- In organisation-wide workshops, team members described the organisation’s values in idealised behavioural terms. These terms were drawn in large part from the Minessence Values Profile™ generated from the AVI.
- It is at this point that the elusive alignment between individual values and the organisation’s aspirational values is achieved.
- Team members then identified the toxic opposite behaviours of these idealised behaviours.
- Each behavioural pair was arranged on opposite ends of a five point scale.
- Organisation-wide team workshops achieved consensus around five qualitative measures in the form of behaviour pairs for each of the organisation’s values.
- The Culture Doctor’s® Cultural Health Check™ online tool was populated with these agreed behaviour pairs.
- All team members of the enterprise were invited to logon anonymously to the Minessence Group’s secure fileserver and access the tool using a unique identifier to score all behaviour pairs in terms of that team member’s personal experience of the described behaviours.
- When all members had scored the Cultural Health Check™ online tool, a Cultural Health Check™ report was produced and analysed by The Culture Doctor®. The instrument is a ‘blunt’ measure and scores are rounded to the nearest whole number.
- It is at this stage in the ASK, LISTEN, ACT, ASK AGAIN™ process of the Cultural Health Check™ that qualitative measures agreed upon at the workshops are converted to quantitative measures.
- To achieve a Platinum Standard Cultural Health Check™ the organisation’s aggregated score across all measures achieved a five-rating, independently verified by The Culture Doctor®.
- The belief-based culture of this organisation which achieved an average rating of five is at an outstanding (or ‘great’) standard. This standard is at a best practice or industry leading standard according to its people and is independently verified at a Platinum Standard by The Culture Doctor®.
- The Cultural Health Check™ reveals great internal strengths and no weaknesses and informs the ACT stage about where strategy might be best placed to maintain this significant competitive advantage.


The ‘Standards’ visibly and tangibly benchmark our progress – it’s powerful.
Ben Blemings
Former Engineer, Churchill Abattoirs