The Values Fit for Purpose Scan

Most values frameworks were designed with care. Few were designed to shape behaviour.

We developed a diagnostic that assesses your framework and shows you where it's strong, where it isn't, and what to do next.

Offered on a complimentary basis.

Most organisations have values on their website and their office walls but few can point to a specific decision those values actually shaped last month. A badly built framework often just sits there, largely ignored, while everyone carries on doing their best to get their job done.

Only around a quarter of employees say they can apply their company's values in their daily work.

— Gallup

Who the Scan is for

HR Directors and People Leads

You have a values or behaviours framework in place. The organisation is entering a new phase - growth, restructuring, a shift in strategy - and you need to know whether what you have will still get you where you need to go next.

Change and Transition Managers

You are leading through a merger, acquisition, or leadership change. Cultural alignment matters and time is short. You need a clear read on whether your framework can carry the weight.

Senior Executives

You invested in articulating your values or leadership model. You need to know whether that investment will do what you need it to do across the organisation, or whether the current version needs reworking before you go further.

What we assess

Whether a framework shapes behaviour depends on how it is built. The Scan tests yours against six criteria - the structural conditions that research and practice show make the difference between a framework that works and one that gets forgotten.

Will it hold up when people use it?

ObservableDoes it name actions a colleague could directly see, rather than character traits and abstract nouns?
UnequivocalWould two people from different cultural backgrounds agree on whether it was happening?

Does it support where you are going?

StrategicIs it the specific set this organisation needs now, tied to your strategy, not generic competency language that could belong to anyone?
UniversalDoes it apply, with real examples, to a graduate and a country head alike?

Can it move and stick?

DistinctiveDoes it take a stand on trade-offs, or could it belong to any company in any sector?
SpreadableCan it spread peer to peer and be remembered without a facilitator to explain it?
A real example

A global professional services firm had "candour" as a core value.

Neither group thought they were doing it differently.

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Same word,
two different behaviours

and no way to tell from the framework which one it was asking for.

North American officesDirect challenge in meetings
Southeast Asian officesCareful private feedback after the meeting

These criteria come from habit research, behavioural science, and over 35 years of applied work with organisations navigating change.

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How it works

01

Get in touch

Fill in the short form and tell us what prompted your interest. We will then ask you to share your values, behaviours, or leadership model document, along with any supporting material.

02

We assess it · within 48 hours

We assess your framework against the six criteria and compare it to two benchmarks.

03

You get a clear picture

We talk you through your results, then send you the report - your scores, findings from your own material, and a prioritised set of next steps.

What makes this different

Most culture diagnostics survey your employees.

Our Scan reads the documents you already have and assesses whether they are built to shape behaviour at all.

Your framework already carries real investment: in time, in internal credibility, in the conversations that built it. That's why our recommendations start from evolution, not replacement.