Game-Changing Culture
At a glance...
Empowering the People Dimension
The crucial People dimension is often underestimated or overlooked, compared to the Process and Technology dimensions, yet it is the foundation upon which successful transformation, processes, and technology rely.
While frameworks and methodologies can provide some guidance (e.g. SFIA), they often fall short in identifying and aligning individuals' innate potentials for maximum business impact.
We believe that People should not be confined to boxes or defined solely by their roles. They should not be treated as generic commodities, easily replaceable or disposable. Instead, we recognize that people have:
- Unique personalities
- Natural inclinations (either known or unknown to them)
- Individual preferences
- Strengths and the energizing effect of those strengths
We celebrate the diversity of individuals because everyone is different and has the desire to make a meaningful contribution. However, many individuals may feel afraid, discouraged, dis-empowered, or simply lack the opportunity or appropriate language to fully express themselves.
Our mission is to uplift the People dimension by uncovering and leveraging individuals' true potentials. We help each individual find out what makes them unique and valuable.
By embracing the individuality of each team member and aligning their natural strengths with business objectives, we empower organizations to unlock the full potential of their people and drive exceptional results.
🌟 Overcoming Common Leadership Challenges 🌟
As a leader, you face a multitude of challenges in today's dynamic business landscape. Take a moment to see if you identify with these common symptoms (the carousel below goes into more detail):
- 🤔 Imposter Syndrome - Up to 82% of people suffer from it, including 20% of senior managers ‘always’ or ‘very frequently’…and 70% of high-achievers
- 📉 "The Great Resignation" - 73% of employees considering leaving their jobs. Losing an employee can cost a company 1.5-2x their salary
- 🔍The shrinking availability within the employment market - vacancies now at a record high (37.5% increase to 1.1m Dec ‘19-Dec ‘22)
- 📊 The historically low employee engagement scores -
11% from
Gallup's Global Workplace Report (more detail in
this blog), costing
34% of salary
- 💸 The time to select new recruits - 20%-30% of salary for recruitment costs but, for av. UK salary of £27,600, 1st-year employment costs ~£63k
- ❌ Not delivering on strategic objectives - “Only 64% of projects meet their goals” but only 39% of all projects are OTOB (worse for CIOs)
- ⌛ Time to get new teams to ‘gel’ & be effective - “a group of competent professionals…under perfect conditions…will take a 4-6 months [to start] to function as a team”
Which leader wouldn't want to retain their existing staff, make them feel valued, and invest in their growth? When you invest in your team members, they invest in you, and everyone benefits.
One of the root causes behind these challenges is that, while you are doing your best with the available tools and techniques, you may find yourself largely managing yourself and your team
reactively, instead of
proactively
understanding them.
We can help you zip together the oft-afterthought People dimension upfront with the Process and Technology dimensions.
By leveraging our expertise, your team members can gain a deeper understanding of their unique contributions, unlock their full potential, and align with the team's objectives…as…we…go. I.e. as we guide you through any of your current activities or processes, we empower individuals to realize their capabilities, make their own personal commitments to the objectives, and drive exceptional results.
Over 4000+ companies have already discovered the transformative effect of services like ours that are powered by The GC Index®. We put the People dimension at the heart of their strategies.
Together, let's overcome the challenges and build a thriving organization where both people and business flourish.
The GC Index® powering our solutions
The GC Index® is the organimetric that empowers organizations to drive productivity and achieve results by creating game-changing individuals, teams and cultures...in almost any situation that involves People.
By understanding your GC Index profile, you can unlock your true potential, play to your strengths, and maximize your contribution to your role, team, and organization.
With The GC Index®, you gain access to a comprehensive measurement framework and a shared language that identifies individual and collective impact, highlighting how people contribute to the achievement of organizational goals.
The GC Index® is an organimetric and unrelated to personality psychometrics. It helps you identify where most impact can be achieved.
Traditionally, Personality, Experience and Expertise have been used to infer your potential and impact within an organization. While these factors are important, they can often be too abstract and challenging to fully comprehend and apply, certainly effectively and consistently.
What sets The GC Index® apart is its direct and measurable approach. It provides a clear and understandable measure of your impact potential, making it much easier for individuals to grasp and effectively communicate.
By using The GC Index®, individuals can confidently understand and articulate their unique contributions. It transcends abstract concepts and provides a tangible measure that can be easily understood and applied.
In fact, during our assessments, individuals often accurately estimate their own energy levels after just a few minutes of exploring the proclivity definitions.
(c) & courtesy of Confluent Energy, another GC Partner
The GC Index® reveals the "What" of your potential impact, whereas personality psychometrics focus on the "How" or the style in which that impact is likely to be delivered.
One of the key advantages of The GC Index® is its scalability. It can be applied not only to individuals but also to teams and beyond. This flexibility enables organizations to gain valuable insights and drive impact at various levels.
With The GC Index®, you'll gain a deep understanding of your proclivity mix of Game Changer, Strategist, Implementer, Polisher, and Play Maker. These proclivities represent the ways in which you feel most engaged and energized when making an impact in your world.
The GC Index® Basics
proclivity [proh-kliv-i-tee]
noun, plural pro·cliv·i·ties
A natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition
As nicely explained on
Vocabulary.com:
"A proclivity is a natural tendency to like something...When you have a proclivity, it feels automatic — you like what you like; you don't even have to think about it. The origin of the word proclivity supports this feeling. Proclivity comes from the Latin word proclivis, which literally means "sloping forward." You slide toward a proclivity — no effort is needed. You just give in to it, since you're headed in that direction naturally."
When it comes to making an impact, a proclivity, therefore:
- Is the way in which you feel most engaged and energized when it comes to making an impact upon your world.
- Feels automatic and requires no effort or conscious thought, just like on that sloping path where you effortlessly slide toward.
- Is the innate preference you have, even if you possess skills and experience in other areas.
- Is the set of activities in which you naturally provide value, often quick, easy, and effortless for you, to the point that you may assume (often incorrectly) others possess the same abilities.
- Is something you may not even recognize because you haven't been exposed to it or had the opportunity to exercise it.
- Is something in which you have a natural affinity or strength, waiting to be discovered.
The GC Index® identifies 5 key Proclivities through which people can make an impact in their roles, teams and organizations:
There are 100,000 different combinations of these Proclivities within The GC Index®, embracing the diversity of human impact. By understanding your unique combination, you can uncover your true potential and discover the most effective ways to create a positive impact.
To give individuals, teams, and organizations the best opportunity to create a meaningful impact, The GC Index® is integrated into impact equations, which consider various factors and dynamics:
Introductory GC Index® Videos
Discover the power of The GC Index® through our collection of introductory videos, available on our on our YouTube channel (@assuritivity). These videos provide a compelling insight into the practical application and transformative impact of The GC Index® in various contexts.
Discover how individuals prefer to make an impact within a team.
Unlock the full potential of teams through revolutionary collaboration.
Harness the power of impactful communication in teams.
Maximize individual and team potential through a comprehensive framework.
Unleash the power of resilient teams in the face of adversity.
Foster trust and psychological safety within teams for success.
Levels of People Impact
As a GC Partner of The GC Index®, we offer solutions to help you create a Game-Changing Culture at 3 different levels of impact, tailored to your individual needs or your organization's specific business model:
Individual View
⚡It all begins with individuals spending 10-15 minutes completing a 59-question online assessment where there are no right or wrong answers.⚡
Each individual receives a profile review session and a comprehensive 27-page report focusing on:
• Your greatest impact in your organization
• Your approach to leadership
• How you are creative and innovative
• How you engage and influence
• How you get things done
• Which organizations you thrive in
• How you work best in a team and who complements you
Team View
The GC Index® Team Report is outcome-focused and delivers a basis for
intra-team collaboration.
Key features of a full Team Report:
- Your team's strengths
- Your team's likely culture
- What will be most valued
- What might this team overlook
- What tensions are likely to arise
- What gaps are in this team
- Detailed recommendations
Workshops available for teams include:
- Leadership Team Business Impact
- Business Strategy Planning
- Unlocking Team Potential
- Impactful Mindset
- Impactful Collaboration
- Impactful Communication
- Building Psychological Safety
- Team Resilience
Organizational View
An Organimetric Impact Framework (OIF) Report gives a platform for all organizational decision making and provides a basis for inter-team collaboration.
Insights and breakdowns available in the Report include:
- Aggregate across all profiles
- By leadership styles
- By age bands
- By gender
- By region
- By function/team
- By career level
- By core priority (e.g. initiative phase)
Note: Research has shown no statistical significance between age groups, gender, or region (culture). The GC Index truly levels the playing field
New Feature - GC Platform
We have a new GC Index® platform that offers a wide range of features to help you unlock your game-changing potential, and we’re continuously improving it so more features are being added all the time.
You can now access to all your own data & reports, which can have a significant impact, especially for those in organizations.
A quick overview of the benefits include:
- Simple and easy access to all GC Index profiles for your organization, depending on the visibility options you set.
- A huge amount of free GCI resources for you to develop your conversations further - keeping the GCI language alive, further improving team performance
- If you are the ‘admin’ for the platform for your organization, you will get to select the view available for your team:
- View your own profile only
- See everyone’s top 2 impact areas
- See everyone’s impact styles and scores
A full comparison of the features and benefits can be found opposite.
New Feature - GC Translate
Our solutions powered by The GC Index have always been instrumental in unlocking the potential and increasing the impact of individuals, teams, and organizations. They provide valuable insights into understanding the strengths and contributions of people.
Now, with the addition of
GC Translate, we can expand our scope of impactful insights beyond just individuals, teams and organizations (“just” being an massive understatement in itself🚀). We can now delve into the realm of processes and communication surrounding these individuals, examining the intent and impact they have on the overall effectiveness of teams and organizations.
Fundamentally, GC Translate does for Text what The GC Index does for People and people-based decisions.
The power of language and communication cannot be underestimated. We all subconsciously interpret the impact & intent behind the words we read. Professionals spend countless hours analysing papers and books to discern the true impact intended by the author. With GCTranslate, we can provide a simple and efficient litmus test in just a few clicks, uncovering the intended & perceived impact of communication and processes.
With GC Translate, we use the same common language and framework to get insights on:
- Written communication insights
- Intent and impact alignment
- Overcoming biases & conflicts
- Message effectiveness
- Unlocking written power
By combining the insights of The GC Index with the evaluative capabilities of GC Translate, leaders are now empowered to make more informed decisions, nurture impactful collaboration, and drive extraordinary results.
Have a look through the carousel above, which includes how GCTranslate provides insights on the impact expected for 3 CIO roles.
The GC Index® - Science-backed Excellence
The GC Index® goes beyond being a mere management model with little or no scientific rigor. The GC Index® was developed by psychologists at our GC HQ in 2014 and launched in 2016.
Its approach exceeds the guidelines set by the British Psychological Society (BPS), ensuring the highest standards of scientific rigor. It has since been presented and reviewed at prestigious events such as:
- The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP)
- The European Congress of Psychology (ECP)
- The International Congress of Psychology (ICP)
Since then, it has been evolving through continuous extensions and enhancements on our GC Platform.
With over 4000 companies across 50+ countries embracing The GC Index®, it has become a global standard for unlocking individual and team potential.
File Download
You can download a more consumable, general overview brochure, and an example team workshop brochure using the buttons below.
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