Culture & Engagement
You Can't Fix What You're Not Measuring
If you don't know why people are leaving — or thinking about it — you can't stop it. Lodestone's engagement surveys give you data you can act on, not just report at the board meeting.
The Stakes
Culture Isn't Soft. It's What Holds When Things Get Hard.
When culture is real — behaviorally defined, operationally embedded — it doesn't just make people feel good. It changes how they act when things are difficult. The proof point below is not an outlier.
85%
Employees at one client voluntarily cut their own salaries during a cash crunch. Culture built right holds when things get hard.
3–5 weeks
From survey launch to deliverable. Fast enough to be useful in real time, not retrospectively.
Annual → Quarterly
The shift that takes you from reactive engagement management to proactive. You stop finding out about problems after people have already left.
The Offerings
Two Tools. Both Built to Drive Action.
Survey data is only valuable if it changes something. Everything about how we design, deploy, and debrief these surveys is built to produce decisions and action — not awareness.
Full Survey
Organizational Engagement Survey
Company-wide assessment capturing employee sentiment, engagement, and cultural health. Administered confidentially with high-participation design. Department-specific data lets you see exactly where problems are concentrated — not just averages that hide the real picture.
3–5 weeks to deliverable
Includes two facilitated employee action-planning workshops— the people closest to the problem help design the solution. This is how you get buy-in that produces actual behavior change, not just a slide deck with findings no one reads.
Ongoing Monitoring
Quarterly Pulse Checks
Short, high-impact surveys that track what's changing and why. Employees complete them quickly, participation stays high, and data comes back fast enough to act on. Tracks trends across engagement dimensions over time — early detection of disengagement before it becomes attrition.
8–10 weeks to baseline
Each quarter's focus can be customized: a specific initiative, a change management situation, a new leadership team's early impact. The cadence is what makes it predictive rather than reactive — you see the trend before it becomes a problem rather than after it already has.
What You Get
Deliverables Built for Decisions, Not Awareness
Engagement Survey
What You Get
Deliverables Built for Decisions, Not Awareness
Clear answers about what is helping and hurting performance — not simply opinion data. Every deliverable is designed to inform action, not just report results.
In Practice
When Pulse Data Predicted Where the Culture Would Hold
At a green-tech startup, Lodestone partnered with the executive team to establish behavioral values — and then designed the measurement system that would tell us whether those values were actually showing up in daily work. Quarterly pulse checks tracked engagement and behavioral indicators across departments, surfacing which teams had internalized the values and which were still treating them as language. Resource Stewardship was the value most clearly embedded in the data. When cash got tight, the survey signal proved out in real behavior. The CEO reported that employees were "spending like it was their own money" — changing flights, turning off lights, printing less. Eighty-five percent voluntarily cut their own salaries. The values work was the foundation. The survey work showed where it was real, where it was fragile, and where the next round of attention needed to go — months before any of it showed up in retention or engagement scores.
Why Lodestone
Survey Science That Produces Action
Most engagement surveys produce a deck and a conversation about what to do next. Lodestone builds action into the design — from the survey itself through the facilitated workshops.
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Organizational psychologists trained in workplace science |
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Facilitated action-planning workshops included — not extra |
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Department-level data shows exactly where problems concentrate |
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Senior consultants only |
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Full-lifecycle services across the hold period |
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Economical pricing |
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Survey platforms without behavioral science expertise |
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Data delivery only — action planning is your problem |
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Company-wide averages that obscure real issues |
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Junior staff supervised by “big names” |
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Standalone survey product |
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Substantial per-seat fees |
More Lodestone Services
DILIGENCE
Human Capital Due Diligence
Post-Close Bundle
tEamBITDA™
Talent Assessment
Executive Assessment
Team Effectiveness
Post-Close Team Alignment
Leadership Development
Individual Executive Development
Group Development
Group Leadership Development
HR Optimization
Human Capital Process Optimization
Start Measuring What's Actually Happening
Three to five weeks from survey launch to deliverable. Fast enough to act on.