A colleague sent these questions round at your organisation. Your answers are anonymous: nobody sees what you fill in, not even the person who sent it. Eight situations, two minutes. There is no right answer.
It is rarely the content, it is how someone says a thing. Or does not say it. These eight situations come from my workshops with international teams.
Roselind Gan, ICF coach and trainer at Growth Assembly
Got a code from a colleague? You enter it below.
Where do you stand?
Eight situations, two minutes. Pick what looks most like you, not what sounds best.
This is where you stand
One question per dimension gives you a direction, not a measurement. It only gets interesting next to your team’s answers.
Where this rubs against colleagues
Eight more questions, about two minutes. You will see not just which side you are on per dimension, but how strongly. And where the average Dutch work culture sits.
Want to keep this result?
Leave your work email and your own working style lands in your inbox. The code to add your team comes with it, for whenever you want it. Nothing to decide now.
Your email address, nothing else. You get your result plus the team code, and after that at most one message about what teams usually do with it. If you add your team later, they answer anonymously: no names, and you never see who answered what. That is why the team map only arrives once there are four answers. We ask nobody about nationality or origin.
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Thank you, that helps.
What happens next
- You answer eight questions. You see where you stand straight away. No email needed.
- You give your team a code. Or the link, whichever is easier. Anonymous, two minutes per person.
- You get the team map. From four answers on, so nobody can tell who said what.
We don’t ask where anyone is from. A passport doesn’t predict how someone works, and two people from the same country can be each other’s opposites.
One tip: put the code in the calendar invite for your next team meeting and give it two minutes. Then you have those four answers the same day.
Want the map yourself?
You don’t have to leave anything. If you’d like it in your inbox, you can do that here.
Your email address goes into a separate list with no reference to what you filled in. That means we cannot see which answers are yours. The person who sent this never gets these addresses.
Do you lead a team yourself?
Then you can do this for your own team. Eight questions, one code, and nobody has to leave an email address.
What a workshop adds on top of this
Honest about where this free version stops.
- In the Cultural Dynamics workshop we work with the full model of eight dimensions from The Culture Map, with several questions per dimension. This map is our own short version
- The map doesn’t tell you what to do. That conversation belongs to the team, with someone in the room who lets the silence sit
- Your own examples on the table: an email that landed badly, a decision nobody followed
- Roselind moved from Asia to the Netherlands at thirty-five and knows both sides of the table
- The price is on the site: €1,750 for a half day and €2,750 for a full day, excluding VAT
Questions people ask
Is this Erin Meyer’s Culture Map?
No. Our Cultural Dynamics workshop is built on the model of eight dimensions from The Culture Map by Erin Meyer (2014), and we use those eight dimensions here as the structure. The questions, the wording and the map are ours. We don’t reproduce her questions, text or country positions, and this is not an official instrument of hers or of INSEAD. If you want the original, the book is the place to start.
Why don’t you ask where people are from?
Because a passport doesn’t predict how someone works. Two people from the same country can be each other’s opposites, and someone who has worked in three countries over ten years fits no country profile. We look at what people say about their own way of working. That is also why your team can answer anonymously: then nobody has to give the diplomatic answer.
Is this scientific?
This is a conversation starter, not a validated assessment. One question per dimension gives a direction and not a measurement, and we don’t pretend it produces a score you could use in an appraisal. The dimensions themselves come from a field with a long history: Edward Hall wrote about context and time in the 1960s and 70s, Geert Hofstede published his work on power distance and other dimensions in 1980, and Erin Meyer brought it together into eight workplace dimensions in 2014.
Can my team see my answers?
No, and you can’t see theirs. The map shows counts only, no names. That’s why we only send it once there are four answers: with two or three you could guess too easily who answered what.
What happens to my team’s email addresses?
They don’t have to give one. Anyone who wants the map themselves can leave an address. It goes into a separate list with no reference to the answers, so even we cannot tell which answers belong to which address. You never get those addresses, and we only use them where someone has ticked the box themselves.
What does it cost and what happens next?
The map is free. You get it in your inbox and then one message about what teams usually do with it. If you want to go further, the workshop price is on our site. If you don’t, the map is yours and you hear nothing more from us.
In the Cultural Dynamics workshop we do this with the full model from The Culture Map and with your own examples on the table. Half an hour on a call is enough to find a date and shape the day. Half day €1,750, full day €2,750, excluding VAT.