Unit Culture
Field Assessment

The Culture You Have vs. The Culture You Think You Have

Every team has a culture. The question is whether the one you're running was designed deliberately — or inherited by default through accumulated habits, unchallenged assumptions, and the behaviours you've let slide.

Most leaders have a working theory of their team culture. Most of those theories are partially wrong. Not because the leaders aren't paying attention — but because culture operates below the surface of what's visible from the top. The norms that govern how people behave when you're not in the room, whether it's safe to speak up, who actually gets rewarded, and what the team believes about itself — these rarely make it into the one-to-ones.

Before you can build a high-performing culture, you need an accurate reading of the one you're in.

The Assessment

The Unit Culture Field Assessment is a structured diagnostic completed by your team — anonymously and independently — and synthesised into a single report. It spans six domains that together give a complete picture of your unit's cultural health.

The six domains assessed are:

• Psychological Safety — Whether people feel genuinely safe to speak, challenge, and be honest
• Clarity & Direction — Whether the team understands the mission, priorities, and their role in both
• Trust & Cohesion — The real level of interpersonal trust and mutual accountability in the unit
• Decision Culture — Who actually decides things, and whether that matches what the org chart implies
• Feedback & Learning — Whether the team processes failure and improvement productively
• Leadership Signal — What the team believes about how leadership actually behaves vs. what it says

Your Report

• Aggregated team scores across all six domains with benchmark context
• Identification of the highest-risk cultural gaps — the ones costing you performance now
• Side-by-side comparison of leader perception vs. team perception where material gaps exist
• A prioritised intervention map: what to address first and what good looks like
• Optional: a 60-minute debrief session to walk through findings and build an action plan (available as an add-on)

Is This For You?

The Unit Culture Field Assessment is designed for founders, MDs, and team leaders who:

• Sense something is off in their team — but can't isolate exactly what
• Are seeing performance, retention, or collaboration problems and want to understand the root cause
• Are about to hire, restructure, or scale — and want to know what they're building on first
• Want an honest, evidence-based picture of their team culture before embarking on a development programme

Suitable for teams of 3–50. Larger organisations can run the assessment by department or function.