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An example report for a team. The team and the answers are invented. The scores come from the real scoring rules.

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52 / 100Overall score for the culture to innovate

Keeping pace

Generally healthy, some areas may need attention, some room to grow through innovation.

  • Team lead
  • Team
  • Everyone, the team lead and the team together
  • Gap: team lead minus team
Overall scoreAll six dimensions together.
52
PermissionlowestCan people try ideas without asking for approval?
46
CouragelowestIs it safe to share bold ideas?
46
AspirationDo we know what we are trying to achieve?
53
ConnectionDo ideas travel between teams?
54
CapabilityDo people have the skill and the time?
56
UrgencyDoes anyone here feel change is urgent?
61
  • Team lead
  • Team
  • Everyone, the team lead and the team together
  • Gap: team lead minus team
Overall scoreAll six dimensions together.
52
PermissionlowestCan people try ideas without asking for approval?
46
CouragelowestIs it safe to share bold ideas?
46
AspirationDo we know what we are trying to achieve?
53
ConnectionDo ideas travel between teams?
54
CapabilityDo people have the skill and the time?
56
UrgencyDoes anyone here feel change is urgent?
61

The overall score is not a plain average. A low dimension pulls it down more than a high one lifts it, so raising your lowest score raises the overall most.

PermissionlowestCan people try ideas without asking for approval?
46

A low Permission score describes a workplace like this. Ideas wait a long time for approval

What the answers show

  1. PatternPermission Paradox

    Leaders believe they have given people the freedom to act. The people who should use it still ask, wait and worry about the risk.

    Blocks innovationProbable· Team lead, teamTwo roles' answers show the same gap.

Where to start

  1. Start herePermission Paradox

    Pick one recent idea that stalled and trace, with the person who had it, where the permission actually stopped.

    For the team lead, together with the team:

CouragelowestIs it safe to share bold ideas?
46

Where to start

Every pattern this scan found

This scan found 3 patterns. Each shows its dimension and confidence level. The full report opens the other 2.

Permission

  1. Permission ParadoxShown aboveProbable

Courage

  1. Toxic TruthIndicative

Urgency

  1. Strategy FogIndicative
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