

Performance Culture Quadrant™
Connect engagement and performance confidence to diagnose your culture and unlock the path to Peak Performance.

Engaged skepticism

Peak Performance
Disconnected

Strained

Trusted by 6,800+ companies
Peak Performance companies outperform others on business outcomes
47% point stock price advantage
Peak Performance companies achieved a +47% point advantage in stock price change over two years compared with those not in peak.

88% retention rate
Organizations in Peak Performance maintain an 88% employee retention rate, preserving institutional knowledge and execution capacity.

21% more high-performers
Organizations in Peak Performance are stacked with 21% more high-performing employees than organizations in other quadrants.

Finally answer the question: Do we have a high-performing culture?
The four quadrants
Grounded in 15+ years of research and 1.5 billion survey questions answered, the Performance Culture Quadrant (PCQ) connects Engagement and Performance Confidence to visualize your company’s unique culture type.
Peak performance
Peak cultures have high belief in the vision and strategy and are energetic in their intent to help achieve it.
Engaged skepticism
Engaged skepticism cultures are dedicated and energized, but they are skeptical about the organization's capacity to succeed.
Disconnected
Disconnected cultures don’t feel set up for success and don’t believe the company is headed toward success.
Strained
Strained cultures lack energy for the work it takes to achieve and sustain high performance, but remain confident the company will succeed.
Find your 47% advantage
Explore the research to learn how HR leaders can connect engagement and performance confidence to achieve Peak Performance and drive measurable business impact.

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