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Assessment · organisation-wide baseline

Change Readiness Survey

Find out what your organisation actually thinks before you decide what to change.

Fifty-one statements across ten scales produce an organisational baseline: where decisions get made, whether people speak up, how change is landing, whether the load is sustainable and whether leadership is believed. It reads the organisation, not the individual.

  • 51 Likert items across 10 scales
  • 51 questions
  • ~20 minutes
  • Taken in the assessment portal

You receive

  • Scores on all ten scales with a three-colour band
  • A banded composite organisational index
  • Team report with charts and a written narrative

What the Change Readiness Survey measures

The ten scales group into four themes. Read the themes first; the scales underneath are what the report actually scores.

Decision-making and voice

Whether people feel able to decide within their remit, and whether raising a problem is treated as useful or as trouble.

Change and adoption

Whether the organisation absorbs new tools and new ways of working, and how far each stage of a change has actually landed.

Capability and workload

Whether knowledge moves between people and whether the current load is sustainable at the pace the work is being asked for.

Trust and self-belief

Whether people believe leadership intends what it states, and whether they believe their own effort changes the outcome.

The ten scales

Decision Confidence and Autonomy

Six items on whether people can decide within their remit without waiting for permission they do not need.

Psychological Safety and Voice

Seven items on whether admitting a mistake, asking a question or disagreeing is safe here. Reported on its own raw scale, without a colour band.

Speaking Up — Supplementary Set

Three further items that sharpen the voice picture, separating whether people speak up at all from whether anything follows when they do.

Change Readiness and Tool Adoption

Five items on whether new tools and new methods get taken up in practice or quietly worked around.

Knowledge Culture and Talent Integration

Six items on whether what one person knows reaches the next person, and how quickly a new joiner becomes useful.

Workload Resilience and Sustainability

Five items on whether the current pace is holdable, and what gets dropped first when it is not.

Response Style Check

Three items that detect answers drifting toward what sounds acceptable rather than what is true. A read on data quality, not on the organisation — reported without a colour band.

Change Readiness Stages

Six items tracking how far a change has travelled from awareness to reinforcement, so a stalled rollout shows which stage it stalled at. Reported without a colour band.

Trust in Leadership and Organisational Intent

Five items on whether people believe stated intent matches actual intent, and whether commitments are met.

Self-Efficacy and Locus of Control

Five items on whether people believe their own effort changes the result, or that outcomes are decided elsewhere.

How the scoring works

Each scale is averaged across its items and placed in one of three bands. Green is an average of 3.75 and above. Yellow is 2.75 and above. Red is below 2.75. The three-colour scheme exists so a leadership team can see the shape of the result in one pass and then argue about the detail, rather than the other way round.

The ten scales also roll up into a single composite organisational score, and that composite is banded on the same scale. It is the number most useful for tracking movement between two runs.

Three scales are reported without a colour band, deliberately. Psychological Safety and Voice is kept on its own raw seven-point scale so it can be compared against itself over time. The Response Style Check reads data quality, not the organisation. Change Readiness Stages describes where a change has reached, and a stage is not a grade. Colouring any of the three would invite a comparison the number cannot support.

What the report is

A team-level document: scale charts, the banded composite and a written narrative that reads the pattern rather than restating the numbers. It is built for the group that has to act on it.

What you receive

Four of the ten scales, shown the way they appear in the team report. A single red scale against otherwise green results is the most common and most useful shape: it tells you where to spend the next quarter.

Decision Confidence and Autonomy3.9
Change Readiness and Tool Adoption3.1
Workload Resilience and Sustainability2.4
Trust in Leadership and Organisational Intent3.8
Illustrative sample — not real results

Who it is for

Before a change programme

Establishes what you are starting from, so the effect of the programme can be separated from what was already true.

When the numbers look fine and the mood does not

Output holds up, attrition creeps, nobody says why. The voice and workload scales usually locate it.

Across sites and functions

Ten scales run identically everywhere, so two plants or two functions can be compared on the same terms.

Rigour

How this instrument was built

Model and provenance
Built in-house as an organisational baseline for manufacturing and engineering populations. The scale structure was written to the questions a leadership team actually asks before a change programme — decision latitude, voice, change absorption, workload, trust and self-belief — rather than assembled from an off-the-shelf climate model.
Item source
Fifty-one statements written in-house, each rated on a Likert scale. Item wording is calibrated for shop-floor and engineering readers rather than for a management audience.
Psychometrics
  • Ten scales of three to seven items each; scale scores are item averages
  • Three-colour banding at 3.75 and above, 2.75 and above, and below 2.75
  • A banded composite organisational score across all scored scales
  • A three-item response-style check that flags answer sets drifting toward what sounds acceptable
  • Identification is not required; results are reported at team level

This is an organisational diagnostic, not a clinical instrument and not an individual assessment. It describes how a group currently reports its own working conditions at one point in time. It is not a measure of anyone's competence, and no result from it should be used as an input to a hiring, promotion or disciplinary decision.

Common questions

Do people have to identify themselves?
No. The instrument does not require identification, and the report is built at team level rather than person by person.
Is there an individual profile at the end?
No. This is an organisational baseline. Each participant contributes to a team-level picture; nobody receives a personal profile from it. If an individual profile is what you need, the Work Style Profile or AI Readiness is the better fit.
How long does it take to complete?
Around twenty minutes for fifty-one items. Most people finish faster; the estimate leaves room for the ones who think carefully about each statement.
Why do three scales come back without a colour?
Because a colour would misrepresent them. Two are diagnostic rather than evaluative — a response-style check and a stage-by-stage change read — and one is reported on its own raw scale so it can be compared against itself over time.
Can we run it more than once?
Yes, and that is the point of a baseline. Running it before an intervention and again afterwards is what turns a single reading into evidence of movement.

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