Sean GlazeWorkplace Culture Speaker | Facilitator, Great Results Team Building · Leadership lessons from the locker room that change how your people work together.

HOW CAN YOU MEASURE YOUR WORKPLACE CULTURE?

10 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this short presentation, the speaker argues that while leaders claim culture matters, they often lack a concrete way to measure it. He proposes a practical solution: a brief (3‑5 minute) workplace culture survey administered before any facilitation event. The survey asks team members to rate their experiences across 20 specific areas that map onto five pillars of a strong team culture—goals, relationships, expectations, accountability, and thanks. The collected data pinpoints strengths (e.g., high trust) and gaps (e.g., poor departmental communication or weak accountability). These insights become a blueprint that guides the design of customized events, ensuring the facilitator addresses the team’s actual needs rather than delivering a generic program. The speaker ends with a call to action, inviting leaders to discuss how the survey could reveal their own team’s cultural dynamics and to consider a tailored event.

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Every leader will say that culture matters, but they don't know how to measure it. You can feel when culture is off. People get disengaged, silos established, nobody wants to deal with problems, but feelings aren't a clear metric and they don't provide a plan forward. So here's what I do before almost every event I facilitate or speak at. I send the organization a short workplace culture survey, 3 to 5 minutes. The team rates their experiences across 20 areas tied to the 5 pillars of a great team culture: goals, relationships, expectations, accountability, and thanks. The results show leadership exactly where their team feels strong and exactly where the gaps are. One group scores high on trust or relationships but low on departmental understanding and communication. Another has clear values but struggles with accountability or recognition. That data becomes a blueprint for the program. It's how I tailor events to what the specific team actually needs instead of delivering a one-size-fits-all experience. The survey takes less than 5 minutes, and what it tells us shapes everything that happens in the room the day of your event. That's how you stop guessing about culture and start building on purpose. Want to know what your team's culture survey might reveal? Let's talk about an event for your team.