High Variability in Your Culture Profile

Why You’re Seeing This Message

If your Culture Profile includes the message:

It means that the participants who completed the Culture Assessment had significantly different views on what your organization’s culture looks like.

The Culture Profile is built by combining responses from a selected group (typically leadership or key stakeholders). When those responses vary widely, the system flags this to indicate that the profile may not yet represent a clear, consistent view of your culture.

What High Variability Means 

A Culture Profile works best when there is alignment among participants. This creates a reliable benchmark to compare candidates against.

When variability is high:

• There may be different interpretations of your culture
• The profile may not accurately reflect a shared experience
• Using it for hiring decisions may lead to inconsistent or unclear results

Before using this profile in hiring, it’s recommended to refine your approach.

How to Address High Variability

Here are three ways to improve alignment and strengthen your Culture Profile:

1. Refine the participant group

If too many perspectives are included, it can introduce conflicting views.

What to do:

• Focus on a smaller group of core decision-makers
• Include individuals with a broad view of the organization

2. Create profiles for different groups 

In some organizations, especially larger or more decentralized ones, a single Culture Profile may not fully capture the nuances of how different teams operate.

What to do:

• Build separate Culture Profiles for different groups (e.g., departments or regions)
• Use these profiles to reflect distinct sub-cultures

3. Align as a group before rebuilding the profile

This is the most effective way to create a strong, unified Culture Profile.

What to do:

• Bring participants together to discuss their perspectives
• Complete the Culture Assessment collaboratively
• Talk through differences to reach a shared understanding

This approach helps ensure your Culture Profile reflects an intentionally defined culture, not just individual viewpoints.

When you’re ready to move forward

Once your group is more aligned, your updated Culture Profile can be used as a reliable benchmark to evaluate candidate alignment and support hiring decisions.