WHAT’S REALLY BOTHERING YOUR TEAM?
WHAT’S REALLY BOTHERING YOUR TEAM?
coLeague’s Talent Diagnostic finds the root cause of your organization's people problems.
Something's wrong: turnover is climbing, a good manager is struggling, the same complaint keeps finding its way to leadership. You probably have a theory about what the problem is, but in our experience, the thing people can name is rarely the thing that's actually wrong.
The coLeague Talent Diagnostic helps you close that gap and find what's really going on before it gets worse.
Best of all, it's free.
WHY YOUR INITIATIVES AREN’T STICKING
Here's the idea at the heart of the Diagnostic: employee needs are human needs, and when those needs go unmet, even your smartest talent initiatives will fall flat. People who are anxious, frustrated, confused, or quietly resentful can't fully show up for them. Roll out a shiny performance management system to a team where most people don't have an up-to-date job description, and it won't feel like investment. It will feel like make-work, and every cycle of it widens the distance between your people and your leadership.
Take our free Talent Diagnostic, and you’ll learn about our model, which works from the bottom up:
5. And finally, Incentive: give your team a clear understanding of what can be true in the future, and watch them give their all as they strive to reach it.
4. Then, the thing that every employee wants: Autonomy. A genuine ownership over one's work with undue interference.
3. Then Structure: the systems, processes, and infrastructure that enable your people to do their jobs well.
2. Next, they need Purpose: not just a mission statement on the wall. Purpose is the direct, visible connection between what your employees do all day and what the organization is actually trying to achieve..
1. First, your employees need Safety: not just a feeling of physical and psychological safety, but also the security of knowing your paycheck is correct and your employment is legally sound.
5. And finally, Incentive: give your team a clear understanding of what can be true in the future, and watch them give their all as they strive to reach it.
4. Then, the thing that every employee wants: Autonomy. A genuine ownership over one's work with undue interference.
3. Then Structure: the systems, processes, and infrastructure that enable your people to do their jobs well.
2. Next, they need Purpose: not just a mission statement on the wall. Purpose is the direct, visible connection between what your employees do all day and what the organization is actually trying to achieve.
1. First, your employees need Safety: not just a feeling of physical and psychological safety, but also the security of knowing your paycheck is correct and your employment is legally sound.
Here's what we've learned from working inside dozens of organizations: when employees tell you they're unhappy, they describe problems near the top of the pyramid, because those are the problems they feel comfortable naming. The Diagnostic helps you hear what they're actually saying underneath that.
THIS IS NOT AN HR AUDIT
Most talent audits are a checklist of systems and processes (does the organization have this policy, that handbook, this software?). That’s fine, but a checklist tells you what's missing from your filing cabinet, not what's weighing on your people.
The Talent Diagnostic is different in three ways. It's people-centric, so it starts with what your team is experiencing rather than what your org chart says. It works upstream, tracing the problem you can see back to the more basic gap that's causing it. And it answers the question we hear from leaders more than any other: "We know we need to do all of this, but where do we start?"
You don't get a to-do list. You get a road map.
READY TO SEE WHAT’S ACTUALLY GOING ON?
Spend 10 minutes taking our free Talent Diagnostic, and you’ll get your answer. It's not a checklist and it's not an HR audit, but it will give you a clearer picture of where there are gaps in your organization’s Employee Hierarchy of Needs and how to close them.
