Workplace Culture

Understand the People Who Shape Your Culture

Workplace culture is shaped by the people who work within it. To understand and strengthen your culture, you need more than a survey of how employees feel. You need insight into the behaviors, motivators, and emotional intelligence that influence how people communicate, collaborate, make decisions, and respond to challenges.

TTI Success Insights assessments help organizations understand the human factors behind workplace culture. By measuring behavioral styles, driving forces, emotional intelligence, and other workplace competencies, TTI gives leaders actionable insight they can use to strengthen teams, improve communication, develop people, and align talent with organizational goals.

What Is a Workplace Culture Assessment?

Traditional culture surveys primarily measure employee perceptions. TTI assessments provide another layer of insight by examining the people who create the culture every day.

For example, a survey might reveal that employees want better communication. TTI assessment data can help leaders understand the behavioral and motivational differences that influence how people prefer to communicate, receive information, approach decisions, and interact with others.

This creates a more complete picture of workplace culture: what people are experiencing, what is influencing those experiences, and what leaders can do differently.

How TTI Helps Assess Workplace Culture

TTI takes a people-centered approach to culture assessment. Rather than trying to define an organization's culture with a single score, TTI assessments help leaders understand the human factors contributing to that culture.

Understand Behavior With DISC

DISC measures observable workplace behaviors and communication preferences.

Organizations can use DISC insights to understand:

• How employees tend to communicate
• How people approach decisions
• How individuals respond to change and pressure
• Differences in natural and adapted behavior
• Potential communication gaps between people and teams
• How behavioral differences can influence collaboration

When DISC data is viewed across a team or organization, leaders can identify behavioral patterns that may influence the way work gets done.

Understand Motivation With 12 Driving Forces

12 Driving Forces measures the forces that influence why people make the choices they make.

Motivation can have a significant impact on how employees experience work. Two employees may respond to the same recognition program, project, or incentive in very different ways because they are motivated by different things.

Aggregated 12 Driving Forces data can help organizations understand:

• What motivates their workforce
• Where motivational patterns exist across teams
• What different groups value in their work
• How to personalize recognition and development
• What may increase engagement with specific initiatives
• Where motivational differences could create misunderstandings

Instead of assuming one approach will motivate everyone, leaders can use assessment data to design people strategies around the actual workforce.

Understand Emotional Intelligence With EQ

EQ provides insight into how people recognize, understand, and manage emotions in the workplace.

EQ can help organizations better understand capabilities related to:

• Self-awareness
• Self-regulation
• Social awareness
• Social regulation
• Motivation

These insights can support stronger communication, leadership development, conflict management, coaching, and collaboration.

Bring Multiple Insights Together

Organizations can combine behavioral, motivational, and emotional intelligence insights through TTI's Multi-Science approach.

This provides a more complete view of the people contributing to an organization's culture.

Behavior tells you how people tend to act. Driving Forces tell you why they tend to act that way. EQ helps explain how they manage themselves and interact with others.

Together, these insights can help leaders move from simply identifying cultural challenges to understanding the people-related factors behind them.

What Does a Workplace Culture Assessment Measure?

There is no single factor that determines workplace culture. Culture emerges from the interaction of people, leadership, communication, behaviors, motivations, and organizational practices.

TTI assessments can provide insight into several of these factors.

Culture Assessment Tools From TTI

TTI offers a range of assessments that organizations can use to understand different dimensions of their people and culture.

Why Use TTI Assessments to Understand Workplace Culture?

A culture initiative is only as useful as the insight it provides and the action that follows.

TTI assessments help organizations move beyond broad statements such as "communication needs improvement" or "employees need more recognition."

Instead, leaders can ask more actionable questions:

• How do people across this team prefer to communicate?
• What motivates different groups of employees?
• Where are behavioral differences creating friction?
• What skills does our workforce have today?
• Where are development opportunities?
• How do our leaders influence the way people work together?
• What approaches to recognition and development are most likely to resonate?
• Where do teams have complementary strengths?
• Where might teams have potential blind spots?

This level of insight gives leaders a stronger foundation for making people decisions.

Using Culture Assessment Data Across Your Organization

TTI assessment insights can support culture-related initiatives across the employee lifecycle.

Strengthen Team Dynamics

Use team reports to understand the collective behavioral and motivational makeup of a team, identify potential areas of friction, and create strategies for stronger collaboration. Explore team building.

Develop Leaders

Help leaders understand their own behavioral and motivational patterns while building the self-awareness and people skills needed to lead effectively. Explore professional development.

Improve Communication

Give employees a common language for understanding behavioral differences and adapting communication to the people around them. Explore communication.

Build Stronger Talent Strategies

Use assessment insights to support talent development, succession planning, coaching, and other people strategies.

Identify Skills and Development Opportunities

Use DNA and other TTI assessments to understand the skills within your workforce and identify opportunities to develop the capabilities your organization needs.

How to Assess Workplace Culture With TTI

A successful culture assessment should lead to greater understanding and action.

Workplace Culture Assessment FAQs

What is a workplace culture assessment?

A workplace culture assessment is a structured way to understand the factors influencing how people work together. TTI assessments can provide insight into the behaviors, motivators, emotional intelligence, skills, and decision-making factors that contribute to workplace culture.

How do you assess workplace culture?

Organizations can assess workplace culture through employee surveys, interviews, focus groups, organizational data, and assessments that measure the people-related factors influencing workplace behavior. TTI assessments provide insight into individual and group behaviors, motivators, emotional intelligence, skills, and decision-making.

What is the best tool for assessing workplace culture?

There is no single assessment that measures every aspect of workplace culture. TTI offers a range of assessments that measure different aspects of people and performance. DISC measures behavior, 12 Driving Forces measures motivation, EQ measures emotional intelligence, ACI measures how someone evaluates people, tasks, and systems, and DNA measures workplace skills. Organizations can combine assessments to address their specific goals.

How can TTI assessments improve workplace culture?

TTI assessments help organizations understand the people behind their culture. Leaders can use insights about behavior, motivation, emotional intelligence, skills, and decision-making to improve communication, strengthen teams, develop leaders, personalize employee development, and make more informed people decisions.

Can TTI assessments measure company culture?

TTI assessments do not assign a single score or label to an organization's culture. Instead, they provide insight into the people-related factors that contribute to culture. When assessment results are aggregated appropriately, organizations can identify patterns across teams and their workforce.

Can culture assessment results be used to evaluate individual employees?

TTI assessment results should be used for their intended purpose and interpreted appropriately. Aggregated culture insights should not be used to profile, rank, or exclude individual employees. Assessment data is most valuable when it helps people understand themselves and others and supports development and organizational effectiveness.

How often should you assess workplace culture?

The appropriate frequency depends on the organization's goals and the type of assessment being used. A full culture initiative may be revisited after meaningful organizational changes such as a merger, restructuring, leadership transition, or significant change in strategy. Ongoing feedback and targeted assessments can also be used to monitor specific areas of development.