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Video 03 Engage 44 seconds

Your engagement survey is a thermometer.
Engage is the blood test.

Most businesses measure revenue, pipeline and headcount closely, then measure the people who produce the performance with a survey about feelings. Andrew Banks on why a score can tell you something is wrong but never where or why, and what leaders should measure instead.

Rather read it? Andrew's words are below ↓

Andrew Banks to camera on why an engagement survey is a thermometer
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Andrew Banks co-founded Morgan & Banks and Talent2.

The idea
in one line.

A survey reads how people feel. That tells you something is wrong. To fix it, you need to see how work gets done, team by team.

Ask this of
your own business.

Three questions for your next leadership meeting. If any answer is "not sure", that's the gap Andrew is describing.

01

When your engagement score last moved, could you say why?

A score that moves without a reason is a temperature reading. It tells you to look, not where.

02

Which team is carrying the gap, and is the average hiding it?

One organisation-wide number can hold several very different cultures.

03

Would you see a team drifting before the first resignation?

Most culture problems show up as exits. By then the cost is already paid.

How Compono Engage answers those questions.

Compono Engage is an employee engagement platform that explains the score. It measures engagement, satisfaction and intention to stay, and adds how work gets done in every team.

See how Compono Engage works 

1

One survey

Culture, climate and Work Personality in a single survey your people complete once.

Answers question 01: the score arrives with its reasons.

2

Culture read team by team

Twelve culture dimensions, compared across teams, sites, roles and tenure, and against the culture your strategy needs.

Answers question 02: the average stops hiding anyone.

3

Where to act first

Which gaps matter most, which teams carry them, and why.

Answers question 03: you act before the resignation.

See your culture team by team.

Bring the questions above. On a short video call we'll show you a team-by-team culture read and answer anything you ask. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.

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Andrew Banks

Andrew BanksCo-founded Morgan & Banks and Talent2.

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In Andrew’s words

What Andrew is describing

  • We measure everything, revenue, pipeline, headcount, and the people who produce the performance, we measure with a survey about feelings
  • You go to the doctor feeling crook, she takes your temperature and says, "Yep, you're sick." You knew that
  • It measures how your people feel and how work actually gets done, team by team, against the culture your strategy needs
  • Keep taking the temperature if you like, just don't call it a diagnosis

What Andrew says (full transcript)

Andrew Banks

Andrew BanksCo-founded Morgan & Banks and Talent2

Here's a funny thing about business. We measure everything, revenue, pipeline, headcount, and the people who actually produce the performance, we measure with a survey about feelings. That's a thermometer.

You go to the doctor feeling crook, she takes your temperature and says, "Yep, you're sick." You knew that. What you need is a blood test.

Compono Engage is the blood test. It measures how your people feel and how work actually gets done, team by team, against the culture your strategy needs. So when a number drops, you can see where and why and what to fix.

Keep taking the temperature if you like, just don't call it a diagnosis. You need Compono Engage.

Common questions

An engagement survey shows how people feel, which tells you something has changed. To know where and why, you also need to see how work gets done in each team. Compono Engage measures both in one survey.

An engagement survey measures climate: how people feel. Engage measures climate too, and also reads culture across 12 validated dimensions and Work Personality across eight types of work, so you can see why a score moved and which team it sits in.

The specific gap and the team it sits in, evidence to take to the board instead of anecdotes, and a culture read that Compono Hire can use as the benchmark for new hires.

Up next Video 04 Develop 47 seconds

Anyone can tick a box.

Engage shows how each team works. Andrew's last video asks whether the people in those teams can do the work, and how you would prove it.

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