Cultural Assessment

Over the past few decades, company leaders and executives have come to realize that their enterprises require diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies to entice top-notch personnel and retain their edge in the market. If you’re a business executive who wishes to kickstart DEI initiatives but feel like you don’t know where to start, a DEI cultural assessment is where to begin. At Tessi Consulting, we help you conduct both cultural and structural assessments to gain a deeper understanding of your organization’s DEI maturity level. Learn more about the DEI cultural assessment service we offer on this page.

Understanding Cultural Assessment

Conducting cultural assessments is a crucial element in building intercultural awareness and enhancing cross-cultural communicative skills to facilitate effective teamwork across diverse groups of people. For instance, through cultural assessments, you can evaluate if each time you compose an email, you take into account the recipient’s identity, the appropriate level of formality in your communication, and if the message is comprehensible for someone with English as a secondary language. Similarly, you can evaluate whether you consider the time zone of your colleague from another country each time you schedule an appointment with them.

If you’re part of a multicultural team, it’s likely that you’ve implemented similar measures to ensure that cross-cultural communication is efficient and to prevent any misunderstandings or apprehensions. You’re likely also aware of how simple it is for a message to become lost in translation or how onerous it can be to rectify miscommunications. Cultural assessments can aid multicultural teams in overcoming such problems.

Benefits of Getting Cultural Assessment for Your Organization

Cultural assessments are instrumental in enhancing intercultural awareness as they offer organizations a better understanding of how their personal penchants and expectations correspond with those of their colleagues. This improved intercultural awareness and self-awareness enable diverse teams to communicate more effectively, make necessary adjustments to their personal approaches where needed, improve teamwork habits, foster stronger trust and relations, and function better cross-culturally.

How Our Professionals Can Help with Cultural Assessment

Our cultural assessments are tailored to diagnose patterns in individual employees’ proclivities and values, enabling the generation of a behavioral and attitudinal profile. At Tessi Consulting, we guide your organization in deep diving into three essential questions and responding to them truthfully:

• Do you anticipate only uniform behavior from all your leaders?
• Is your company subscribing to an illusion of meritocracy?
• Are you unknowingly dissuading valuable, varied talents from applying to job postings?

With our cultural evaluation and DEI consultancy support, you can take concrete steps to build a more inclusive and equitable workplace, and ultimately, a better future for all.

Why Choose Tessi Consulting?

At Tessi Consulting, we provide a holistic, data-driven cultural assessment that offers precise insights into the disparity between your organization’s current state and a thriving, inclusive culture with a diverse workforce. Our goal is to help you close that DEI gap and create a healthy, prosperous work environment. Our team comprises dynamic business professionals, innovators, and experts who utilize our collective resourcefulness to assist you in reaching new DEI heights at your workplace and beyond. 

For more information about our cultural assessment for your organization, do not hesitate to contact us or call us at (617) 564-3331 today.