Most values frameworks were designed with care. Few were designed to shape behaviour.
The Values Fit for Purpose Scan
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.
New in Role
You have taken on a values or leadership framework that someone else built. You need to know what you are working with before deciding what comes next.
Senior Leadership Investment
Your senior leaders invested in articulating the organisation's values or leadership model. You need to know whether that investment will do what they need it to do - and you need a clear answer before the next conversation at that level.
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?
Does it support where you are going?
Can it move and stick?
A global professional services firm had "candour" as a core value.
Neither group thought they were doing it differently.
Request your Scan →Same word,
two different behaviours
and no way to tell from the framework which one it was asking for.
These criteria come from habit research, behavioural science, and over 35 years of applied work with organisations navigating change.
How it works
Get in touch
Fill in the short form and tell us what prompted your interest. We get back to you within 48 working hours and ask you to share your values, behaviours, or leadership model, along with any supporting material.
We assess it
We assess your framework against the six criteria and compare it to two benchmarks.
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.
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.
The Scan is offered on a complimentary basis.
After 30 November, requests are handled in order of arrival.
No survey. No workshop. No obligation beyond an honest conversation about what we find.
Request your Scan →Prefer to talk first? Write to Bastian Küntzel at b.kuntzel@tco-international.com.
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The research behind the six criteria, sent straight to your inbox.
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Ready to book? Request your Scan by 30 November.
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Request by 30 November – the first ten organisations receive their report by December.
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