Field notes
Writing on organisational health
What a single score leaves out - why engagement is a symptom, what survey fatigue really is, and how to read your organisation as a connected whole.
Beyond the engagement survey
Engagement is a symptom, not the system
If an engagement score is a symptom, what is it a symptom of? A look at engagement as an output of organisational health - and why the connections between dimensions matter more than the list.
Beyond the engagement survey
An engagement score tells you the temperature, not the cause
An engagement score is a faithful reading of how people feel - but not of what's driving it. Why one number can't reveal the system underneath.
Organisational health check
How to tell if your organisation is really healthy
An organisational health check shows you your own shape, not a rank against everyone else - how to tell where your organisation really stands, beyond a single score.
Beyond the engagement survey
Survey fatigue isn't fatigue, it's the feeling nothing changes
Survey fatigue is usually blamed on too many surveys. Look closer and it's more specific than that - the sense that answering changes nothing. A reframe of a familiar problem.