What’s Sabotaging Your Culture from the Inside Out?

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Quiz Questions

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1. Which of these dynamics most reflects your team right now?
- A.
  A. People are keeping things close to the chest
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  B. People are walking on eggshells after past issues trying to avoid conflict.
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  C. Everyone’s tired, and it showing
- D.
  D. Some team members feel left out or invisible
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  E. We’re working hard but unclear what we’re moving toward
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  F. There’s no consistent way we do things
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2. What happens when someone raises a concern or gives feedback?
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  A. It often gets brushed aside or sugar-coated
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  B. People get defensive, quiet, or avoidant
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  C. Leaders are too overwhelmed to respond
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  D. It depends on who’s speaking—some voices carry more weight
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  E. It disappears into a black hole—no one follows up
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  F. It’s unclear who’s accountable or how decisions get made
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3. How does your team currently engage with equity and inclusion?
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  A. We rarely talk about it directly
- B.
  B. We avoid naming real tension or harm
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  C. People care, but it feels like one more overwhelming thing to focus on
- D.
  D. Some folks feel like they have to hide parts of themselves
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  E. Wants to do better but lacks a shared direction
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  F. Inconsistently: We have no clear agreements, plan, or norms.
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4: What do your team’s regular meetings tend to feel like?
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  A. Polite on the surface, but missing real honesty
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  B. Surface-level and avoidant. We avoid hard topics to keep the peace
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  C. Rushed, overloaded, or unstructured.
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  D. Dominated by the same voices or perspectives
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  E. Scattered—there’s not always a clear purpose or outcome
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  F. Every department or leader runs meetings their own way
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5. What’s the typical response when someone makes a mistake or misses the mark on your team?
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  A. People silently lose trust—even when it’s not addressed
- B.
  B. It gets brushed over instead of talked through
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  C. Leaders jump in to fix it quickly instead of pausing to reflect
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  D. Accountability feels uneven—some get more grace, some get more blame.
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  E. There’s no follow-up conversation or learning moment
- F.
  F. We haven’t agreed on how we respond to mistakes
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6. How are decisions that affect your team’s work typically made?
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  A. Behind closed doors or without much context
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  B. Inconsistently, especially after tension or disagreement
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  C. In reactive mode—whoever has capacity just makes the call
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  D. Some people are included more often than others
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  E. It's rare that it's communicated how or why the decision was made
- F.
  F. It depends who’s in the room at the time
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7: When a change is introduced, how do people on your team usually react?
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  A. People brace for impact and hope it doesn’t affect them
- B.
  B. There’s tension, but no space to process it
- C.
  C. People feel exhausted and overwhelmed without enough support
- D.
  D. Some feel left out of decisions and key conversations that affect them
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  E. People are unclear on the reason for the change
- F.
  F. No one communicates or explains the plan - it just starts happening.
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8: If your team could shift just one thing tomorrow, what change would make the biggest difference?
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  A. More honest, transparent communication
- B.
  B. Courageous, caring conflict conversations
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  C. Leadership that feels present, steady, and resourced
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  D. Consistent inclusion and space for different voices
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  E. Clearer direction, purpose, and priorities
- F.
  F. Shared norms, agreements that guide how we work together

Quiz Outcomes

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Your Culture Glitch: The Mistrust Loop
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T.H.R.I.V.E. OS Element: Trust & TransparencyYour Culture Snapshot Is InEvery workplace culture has strengths to celebrate, and opportunities to strengthen.This quiz was designed to help you get curious about how your team is currently operating across six essential elements of a healthy, inclusive culture, based on the T.H.R.I.V.E. OS™ framework.Whether your results show areas that feel strong or ones that could use more intention, remember: culture is built choice by choice, conversation by conversation. You now have a clearer view of what’s working—and what might need more care, clarity, or repair.Keep scrolling to see how your team is doing and what steps you can take next.Culture Glitch Overview: A lack of transparency is quietly eroding connection and trust across your team. Decisions are unclear, communication feels cautious, and people have stopped bringing their full selves to the table.Why It Matters:When trust breaks down, collaboration follows. In the absence of clear communication, people fill in the gaps with assumptions, pull back, and operate in self-protective modes. Mistrust doesn’t just slow down the work—it frays the culture holding the work together.What You Can Do Next:Begin rebuilding trust through clarity and consistency.Ask your team, "What’s something we haven’t talked about that’s still lingering?"Small, transparent actions build psychological safety and connection over time.Recommended Next Step:Book a call with Wilson and Associates Coaching and Consulting, LLC to explore custom-tailored solutions for your Culture Glitch.Engagements like a Team Retreat or a Culture Clinic can help you co-create communication agreements and rebuild the trust your team needs to move forward together.You can learn about the Thrive O.S. and the Culture Glitches here..
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Your Culture Glitch: Unspoken Wound
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T.H.R.I.V.E. OS Element: Healing & HarmYour Culture Snapshot Is InEvery workplace culture has strengths to celebrate, and opportunities to strengthen.This quiz was designed to help you get curious about how your team is currently operating across six essential elements of a healthy, inclusive culture, based on the T.H.R.I.V.E. OS™ framework.Whether your results show areas that feel strong or ones that could use more intention, remember: culture is built choice by choice, conversation by conversation. You now have a clearer view of what’s working—and what might need more care, clarity, or repair.Keep scrolling to see how your team is doing and what steps you can take next.Culture Glitch Overview: A past conflict, decision, or moment of harm still lingers—unspoken, unhealed. And while no one is talking about it, everyone feels it.Why It Matters:When harm isn’t acknowledged, trust stalls and emotional distance grows. Teams start performing connection instead of living it. The result? Surface-level collaboration, reactivity, and a sense that "this isn’t safe to name."What You Can Do Next:Normalize repair. Begin by inviting honest dialogue: "Is there something we haven’t acknowledged that's impacting how we work together?" It won’t always be easy—but it’s always worth it.Recommended Next Step:Book a call with Wilson and Associates Coaching and Consulting, LLC to explore custom-tailored solutions for your Culture Glitch.Book a S.C.A.L.E. Method™ Conflict Intensive, Team Retreat or Workshop to develop the skills, tools, and process for courageous conversations and team repair.
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Your Culture Glitch: Burnout Spiral
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T.H.R.I.V.E. OS Element: Resilient LeadershipYour Culture Snapshot Is InEvery workplace culture has strengths to celebrate, and opportunities to strengthen.This quiz was designed to help you get curious about how your team is currently operating across six essential elements of a healthy, inclusive culture, based on the T.H.R.I.V.E. OS™ framework.Whether your results show areas that feel strong or ones that could use more intention, remember: culture is built choice by choice, conversation by conversation. You now have a clearer view of what’s working—and what might need more care, clarity, or repair.Keep scrolling to see how your team is doing and what steps you can take next.Culture Glitch Overview: Your team’s emotional bandwidth is tapped out. Leaders are holding too much, for too long, without the time or structure to reset.Why It Matters:When burnout is present at the leadership level, it becomes contagious. Overwhelm turns into reactivity. Presence turns into absence. And instead of culture by design, you get culture by default—built on survival.What You Can Do Next:Audit your leadership rhythms. Where can you pause, delegate, or say no? Regenerative leadership is possible—and necessary.Recommended Next Step:Book a call with Wilson and Associates Coaching and Consulting, LLC to explore custom-tailored solutions for your Culture Glitch.Whether booking an Executive Coaching Package, or Positive Intelligence Workshop or Program, Retreat, or bringing our Your North Star or P.I.V.O.T. Leadership Programs to your teams, we have programs and support to help leaders and their teams reset and move from surviving to leading with clarity, capacity, and care.You can learn about the Thrive O.S. and the Culture Glitches here.
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Your Culture Glitch: Belonging Breakdown
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T.H.R.I.V.E. OS Element: Inclusion in ActionYour Culture Snapshot Is InEvery workplace culture has strengths to celebrate, and opportunities to strengthen.This quiz was designed to help you get curious about how your team is currently operating across six essential elements of a healthy, inclusive culture, based on the T.H.R.I.V.E. OS™ framework.Whether your results show areas that feel strong or ones that could use more intention, remember: culture is built choice by choice, conversation by conversation. You now have a clearer view of what’s working—and what might need more care, clarity, or repair.Keep scrolling to see how your team is doing and what steps you can take next.Culture Glitch Overview: Your team is experiencing exclusion, whether overt or subtle. Some voices feel dismissed. Some people feel invisible. And many are performing a version of themselves to stay safe.Why It Matters:When people feel like they can’t bring their full selves to work, innovation, trust, and retention suffer. Without a culture of inclusion, the cost is quiet disengagement and emotional withdrawal.What You Can Do Next:Create intentional space for identity, voice, and experience to shape how your team collaborates. Don’t just welcome difference—build for it.Recommended Next Step:Book a call with Wilson and Associates Coaching and Consulting, LLC to explore custom-tailored solutions for your Culture Glitch.We've found that inclusion-focused Team Retreat to reimagine belonging and build practices rooted in equity has been effective.You can learn about the Thrive O.S. and the Culture Glitches here..
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Your Culture Glitch: Navigating With No North Star
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T.H.R.I.V.E. OS Element: Vision & Values AlignmentYour Culture Snapshot Is InEvery workplace culture has strengths to celebrate, and opportunities to strengthen.This quiz was designed to help you get curious about how your team is currently operating across six essential elements of a healthy, inclusive culture, based on the T.H.R.I.V.E. OS™ framework.Whether your results show areas that feel strong or ones that could use more intention, remember: culture is built choice by choice, conversation by conversation. You now have a clearer view of what’s working—and what might need more care, clarity, or repair.Keep scrolling to see how your team is doing and what steps you can take next.Culture Glitch Overview:Your team is working hard, but without a shared sense of direction.Priorities shift, clarity is elusive, and decisions feel disconnected from a bigger purpose.Why It Matters:When purpose gets blurry, people lose momentum. Decisions slow down, priorities conflict, and the day-to-day becomes reactive instead of intentional. Without a shared North Star, even the most dedicated teams struggle to align.What You Can Do Next:Reconnect your team to a shared purpose. Clarify what success looks like and how everyone contributes.Recommended Next Step:Book a call with Wilson and Associates Coaching and Consulting, LLC to explore custom-tailored solutions for your Culture Glitch. Book our Strategic Planning Facilitation to reset your vision, build alignment, and chart a clear path forward.You can learn about the Thrive O.S. and the Culture Glitches here.
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Your Culture Glitch: Culture Chaos
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T.H.R.I.V.E. OS Element: Everyday Habits of CultureYour Culture Snapshot Is InEvery workplace culture has strengths to celebrate, and opportunities to strengthen.This quiz was designed to help you get curious about how your team is currently operating across six essential elements of a healthy, inclusive culture, based on the T.H.R.I.V.E. OS™ framework.Whether your results show areas that feel strong or ones that could use more intention, remember: culture is built choice by choice, conversation by conversation. You now have a clearer view of what’s working—and what might need more care, clarity, or repair.Keep scrolling to see how your team is doing and what steps you can take next.Culture Glitch Overview:Your team lacks consistent agreements and rhythms. Without shared norms, collaboration gets clunky, decisions feel slow, and frustration grows.Why It Matters:Culture is built in the day-to-day—how you meet, communicate, and follow through. Without structure, even the most well-intended efforts unravel. Chaos becomes the culture.What You Can Do Next:Introduce structure that centers inclusion and clarity. Build agreements for how you want to work together—and revisit them often.Recommended Next Step:Book a call with Wilson and Associates Coaching and Consulting, LLC to explore custom-tailored solutions for your Culture Glitch.Join the Culture Clinic or book a Team Agreements Workshop to create rituals, rhythms, and expectations that turn culture into action.You can learn about the Thrive O.S. and the Culture Glitches here.

What’s Sabotaging Your Culture from the Inside Out?

Discover the hidden pattern that’s holding your team back—from trust gaps to vision misalignment—and learn one powerful step you can take to shift your culture starting now.

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Quiz Outcomes