Testing stated values
Identifies where employee experiences support or contradict the organisation’s stated values. Gives leaders quoted evidence of the gap between cultural aspirations and everyday practice.
— Talent & Leadership
Live Culture Diagnostic
Reveals how organisational culture is lived through anonymous employee accounts, producing an evidence-backed diagnostic of shared themes, differences between functions and gaps between values and practice.
- Talent & Leadership
- Human review built in
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1–2 weeks → ~15 minutes
For one complete, review-ready pass
No coding required
- Input
- Pre-set questions about everyday working culture
- Output
- Culture diagnostic report with human-approved findings
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1–2 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Live Culture Diagnostic for
Understanding differences across functions
Distinguishes shared cultural patterns from experiences that vary between functions. Helps leadership teams recognise where a single organisation-wide narrative misses important differences.
Grounding a culture discussion
Provides an evidence-backed account of how work gets done, based on consistent questions and concrete examples. Gives advisory teams and leaders a common reference for discussing cultural priorities without attributing individual responses.
Examining informal working norms
Surfaces the unwritten expectations and behaviours reflected in employee accounts. Makes those patterns visible alongside the formal description of the culture.
What it works from
- Pre-set questions about everyday working culture
- Anonymous employee accounts from a cross-organisational sample
- Concrete examples of workplace experiences
- Stated organisational values and culture descriptions
What you get back
- Culture diagnostic report with human-approved findings
- Shared themes in employee experiences
- Evidence-backed tensions between stated and lived culture
- Differences in cultural experience between functionsِ
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Live Culture Diagnostic produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Human sign-off before the write-up
The run pauses for a person to confirm the people that matter before the deliverable is composed.
Composed as work product
Findings on the talent population are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a person.
Criteria-based analysis of every person
Each person is assessed against explicit criteria you control, so the same standard is applied across the talent population on every run.
Grounded in your own assessment and review evidence
The run works from assessment and review evidence you supply, so conclusions about the talent population are anchored to your evidence rather than general model knowledge.
Why this is expensive by hand
Culture statements rarely capture the informal expectations and everyday behaviours that shape working life. In practice it shows up as testing stated values: identifies where employee experiences support or contradict the organisation’s stated values. Gives leaders quoted evidence of the gap between cultural aspirations and everyday practice. The value sits in the rigour, not the typing — yet the rigour is exactly what gets traded away when there is only 1–2 weeks of capacity for it.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; culture diagnostic report with human-approved findings comes out, alongside shared themes in employee experiences. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. In effect, 1–2 weeks of senior time compresses into ~15 minutes — and the output is comparable across clients, quarters and colleagues instead of shaped by whoever ran it.
Who it's for
- CHROs and talent management leads
- Succession and leadership development teams
- Executive assessors and coaches
- Consultants running talent reviews
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Live Culture Diagnostic exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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