Culture Playbook: Team Health Checks: An Alternative To Survey Fatigue

Culture Playbook: Creating A Feedback Culture That Sticks

Welcome to your step-by-step guide on establishing a team health check aka an incredible feedback loop between you and your people. You’ll get to see and hear first hand what’s stopping teams do their best work that can provide the data to prioritise people team and people manager initiatives.

This approach takes inspiration from Spotify’s squad health check for engineering teams but extends it and makes it accessible to all teams in your startup.

This playbook outlines why, when, and how to start a team health check across all your teams and create a long lasting feedback loop that engages managers, executives and team members in a conversation around culture - aka how we work.

If this playbook is for you, then some of the following are probably true:

👉 Teams are exhausted by surveys but you still want to understand where the continuous improvement opportunities are in your ways of working

👉 You can’t “see” where the opportunities are for improvement, where teams need help and what kind of help they need and from who

👉 You are looking for a more human and engaging way to run an all-hands retrospective on company culture

👉 You want to get a heat-map of improvement themes across all teams that includes insights into how supported folks are from managers, suitable process/tools, clarity and alignment to mission and more

About the authors

John Faulkner-Willcocks & Adam Horne are the founders of openorg.fyi and have worked with over 100 startup leadership teams to help design and embed culture change. This is a consolidation of their 25+ years of experience company-building with a 'transparency-first' mindset.

What is it?

A meticulously crafted and highly practical playbook on how to start running Team Health Checks.

Built in Notion, ready to deploy with approach, facilitation guidance and comms guidance.

Who is it for?

• Time Poor People Leaders: Looking to accelerate their ability to plan & deliver effective workshops.
• First Time Head of Peoples: Looking to upskill their company-building craft.
• Founders: Committed to establishing a positive, productive startup culture from the ground up.

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What's in the box?

A detailed guide on:

🚦 Team Health Checks: An Alternative To Survey Fatigue

The playbook features:

• Notion template with a detailed facilitation guide.
• Pre-workshop comms templates for Slack/Email.
• Target outcomes, timeframe, and an embedding guide to ensure lasting impact.

Have a question?

Email John at john@openorg.fyi or say hi on LinkedIn / Twitter

FAQ

Can I share this with my team?

This is intended for individual use only, but if you are tight on L&D budget and want to share with your immediate team, please do.

Does purchase include lifetime access to future updates to this playbook?

Yes!

How do I join the Open Org Slack Community?

👉 You can apply here and join a close knit crew of 204 other startup culture builders.