our research tools
Mettle's research tools include:
Our tools for assessing culture and leadership are based on decades of experience working with organisations, teams and individuals.
Our comprehensive proprietary research tool, the Mettle Gauge, measures the strength of 21 key qualities demonstrated within organisations and by individual leaders.
- The qualities measured relate directly to the cultural challenges most commonly encountered by corporations today. Language is relevant and easily understood; communication of results is straightforward
- The tool allows tailoring of the target culture according to your unique business strategy. Gap analysis and subsequent planning of initiatives to address this is tightly aligned to the business issues
- The tool is supported by Mettle's frameworks for building each of the target cultures, and we can provide further support for any of the 21 qualities in the tool
The results enable clients to:
- Identify the qualities they will require to execute their specific business strategies
- Measure the extent to which those qualities exist and the business risk
- Target investment very specifically to improving the areas of greatest risk
The thinking behind our tools
The principles of the Mettle Culture Gauge (MCG) and the Mettle Leadership Gauge (MLG) stem from 20 years' experience in assessing and developing organisational culture and leadership. Also incorporated is the latest thinking on cultural types. Mettle conducted a literature review into the research of prominent leaders in this field such as Jim Collins, Peter Senge, Ronald Heifetz, Noel Tichy, Daniel Goleman, Abraham Maslow and Margaret Wheatley which verified our thinking.
Our tools have been proven statistically reliable and valid
Dr George Argyrous, who lectures in statistics at the University of New South Wales and is the Author of Statistics for Social Research, conducted a series of statistical tests on the Mettle Culture and Leadership Gauges. Using representative client data sets, Dr Argyrous' analysis determined that both the MCG and MLG are statistically valid and reliable tools.
Message Mapping—Our Qualitative Methodology
Our qualitative diagnostic methodology, Message Mapping, uses structured interviews and focus groups to understand the messages that are received about 'what is expected around here', the sources of these messages and how they are being channeled via behaviours and mindsets, symbols, systems, structure and leadership. (Refer to our Levers Conceptual Framework). This provides us with a picture of the culture and which levers to pull to change it.
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