Salpulse is designed to measure your culture and leverage it for organisational success. It forms a framework - a behavioural operating system - for running your business. The features of Salpulse, described below help you do this.
Compare your actual or "lived" culture against your "desired" culture – a set of values and behaviours you’ve identified that serve your purpose and create the environment that supports your people to work together and make decisions aligned to your organisation’s goals.
Your values are the agreed upon principles that shape the WAY you do things. Using your people as sensors, Salpulse measures how relevant the values are perceived to be in advancing your purpose and how effectively they are being lived.
Renowned author Simon Sinek says to “Start with Why” – we agree! When everyone in your organisation knows “WHY your organisation exists” – it provides you with a shared focus and creates a primary filter for making decisions. Measuring how well your "why" (purpose / mission) is known and followed gives you insight into whether this filter is being used effectively.
Measure the degree to which people within your organisation feel respected, safe to interact with others, take interpersonal risks and share their opinions.
Measure the degree to which people within your organisation trust each other. Trust is foundational to building a healthy, purpose-driven culture.
Measure employee engagement, including the degree to which your employees are likely to recommend your organisation as a great place to work, via the industry standard Employee Net Promotor Score (eNPS).
Show how your current culture compares to previous survey dates with colour-coded up and down markers.
Investigate how your organisational culture differs across your teams, departments, even geographical and regions, whilst protecting anonymity of your employee's responses.
Your people send each other Salps - little packages of encouragement - when they see actions or attitudes worth celebrating.
Each Salp is designed to reinforce an element of your organisation's desired culture such as one of your organisation's values or its purpose.
Salps are publically viewable (within your organisation). There are many benefits of public praise, such as allowing all your people to see how others are living out your desired culture.
Humans create meaning through stories. Stories encourage and motivate us and help us to remember concepts. Salps are short stories of your values in action.
If someone hasn't sent a Salp for a while, Salpulse can be configured to send them a gentle nudge to do so.
Salpulse neatly arranges your desired culture into Salp channels for your purpose (or mission), each of your organisation's values and your shared ambition (or shared goal).
Salpulse gives new employees a quick and easy way to connect to the stories of your business – to see how things are done around here. It also gives them insight into what “good looks like” through the stories of the differences you’ve made, the impact you’ve had and stories that celebrate when individuals have advanced your purpose or lived your values.
Salpulse is built around this simple but powerful framework, developed by Salple, for deliberately designing your desired culture - and bringing it to life.
With each sending or receiving of a Salp and each time the pulse survey is completed, it reminds your people of each of the elements of your desired culture.
If your desired culture extends to expected behaviours for each value (and it should), these appear in that value's Salp channel.