Organizational Effectiveness

The CIS Climate Survey is a proprietary, patent-pending instrument designed by our group to measure core aspects of organizational function. It allows new and incumbent CEOs and members of the senior management team to obtain a rapid, comprehensive view of the “health” of the organization and prioritize mission-critical human capital initiatives and investments.

Our methodology allows senior decision-makers to obtain unbiased, unfiltered, reliable data on leader and team performance and productivity, and provides critical input enabling development of near- and long-term talent management strategies.

The survey can be used to assess a single division or an entire organization, create performance metrics against critical organizational competencies, and track progress over time.

The instrument itself assesses four core dimensions of organizational function:

• The General Management scale assesses leadership, teambuilding, project management, communication, development and training, etc.

• The Cohesiveness scale assesses the degree to which team members work collaboratively, provide support for one another, communicate effectively and share information, etc.
  
  
• The Incentives and Rewards scale assesses the degree to which respondents feel they have adequate opportunities for promotion and career advancement, their work is interesting, satisfying, and challenging, they are fairly compensated, etc.
  
  
• The Professionalism scale measures the degree to which managers are open to constructive negative feedback, effective at coping with stress and high demand situations, capable of providing constructive feedback to others regarding their performance, etc.
  

Using state-of-the-art scientific and statistical procedures, we integrate data across functional dimensions, and identify high- and low-performing teams. We can then drill down and specify the root causes of the weakness and create highly customized action plans to address the problem(s).