Trust
Do people raise issues early, ask for help, and work across boundaries without fear or theatre?
Clarity
Do people understand what matters, who owns what, and how decisions move without waiting for escalation?
Stewardship
Do leaders strengthen people, systems, and culture rather than relying on heroics and control?
Why this matters
Culture often fails below the surface before it fails visibly.
The test is not a compliance audit, a staff survey, or a formal maturity assessment. It is a practical reflection tool built around The Contribution Shift framework.
It helps reveal whether trust, clarity, accountability, mentoring, shared learning, root-cause thinking, and contribution through others are actually present in the way work gets done.
Those patterns matter because organisations can look busy and capable while still depending too heavily on a few strong individuals, late escalation, over-functioning, and constant firefighting.
Take the test
The Contribution Shift Organisational Test
Answer 10 quick questions to get a simple picture of the contribution signals operating in your organisation. Choose the answer that best reflects what normally happens, not what should happen on paper.
Result
Your result will appear here.
Your three weakest signals
How to use your result
Use the result as a starting point for better leadership conversations.
Healthy
Keep strengthening the habits that allow contribution to move through others. Do not let maturity turn into complacency.
Strained
Look for the few patterns creating most of the load: unclear ownership, weak feedback loops, over-reliance on key people, or late escalation.
Firefighting
Start with trust, clarity, and early issue-raising. Firefighting usually means the system is talking too late.
Contribution Shift Health Index
A growing picture of contribution health.
Anonymous test results can contribute to a broader picture of organisational contribution health across people and teams engaging with The Contribution Shift.
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Connection to CMMO®
The test is an entry point, not the whole maturity journey.
The Organisational Test gives a quick reflection on contribution signals. CMMO® — the Contribution Maturity Model for Organisations — provides the broader maturity pathway.
Used together, they help shift the conversation from surface performance to the deeper behavioural and cultural layer underneath: trust, stewardship, accountability, shared learning, leadership leverage, and contribution through others.