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Our customers say
We believe that culture is a prerequisite for performance, so of course it's also important that we measure it.
- Peter Møhring, Principal of the REMA SchoolCustomised solution
'The team wheel and the process with the PCI analysis both as a data and dialogue tool gave everyone insights they didn't have before.
- Steen Ravnborg, Head of eCommerce LogisticsHealthy culture
The PCI® Culture Analysis is for EVERYONE"
"There's no one who can't use this tool - it's all-round and industry-independent."
Søren Levin Thormann Chairman of the Board Our HomeHealthy culture
"A Big thank you for the new insights we are all bringing home helping us create a better common language, a stronger culture and a shared direction."
- Precision Technic Defence GroupHealthy culture
"The team wheel bridges the gap between generations"
Charlotte Prahl Senior HR Business PartnerHealthy culture
'It was bloody marvellous'.
CEO, Bjarne AarupMerger and leadership development
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We understand the world with our concepts
Culture is language. Language is culture.
Concepts shape the way we understand and act in the world.
Fundament
Look, we're standing on
The Culture Model
Culture comprises the patterns, habits, values, and narratives that shape how people think, collaborate, and make decisions in everyday life.
At Ex3 People, we see culture as something that is formed between people. Culture can be made conscious, measured, and developed when the organisation gains a common language for the dynamics already at play in practice.
Purpose
Purpose describes why the organisation exists and what difference it wishes to make for customers, employees and the wider world.
At Ex3 People, purpose is not just a strategic formulation, but a guiding consciousness. Purpose becomes powerful when it can be felt in decisions, relationships, and daily behaviour.
Values
Values are the principles and priorities that guide actions, choices, and collaboration within the organisation.
Ex3 People work with values as living practices. Values gain meaning when translated into concrete conversations, actions, and shared reflection on what we actually reward and repeat.
Identity
Identity is about the organisation's self-perception: who we are, what we stand for, and how we wish to be recognised.
At Ex3, people connect identity with the transition from ME to WE. A strong identity arises when individual perspectives connect with a common picture of the organisation's essence and direction.
Working environment
Working environment covers the physical, psychological and social conditions that affect people's well-being, safety and ability to succeed at work.
Ex3 People see the work environment as a cultural and relational field. It's not just about problems, but about understanding the mechanisms that create security, energy, responsibility, and a sustainable working life.
Psychological Safety
Psychological safety means that people dare to voice their opinions, ask questions, share mistakes, and contribute without fear of negative consequences.
At Ex3 People, psychological safety is a prerequisite for learning, dialogue, and maturity. It is created through relationships, structure, clarity, and a conscious practice of listening curiously and exploring rather than judging.
APV
APV is a workplace assessment: a systematic mapping of the work environment with a focus on identifying, prioritising and acting on areas for improvement.
Ex3 People see APV as more than compliance. When APV is linked with dialogue, data, and cultural understanding, it becomes an active basis for learning, shared responsibility, and concrete improvements in everyday life.
Cultural analysis
Cultural analysis examines an organisation's patterns, norms, relationships, and practices to understand what promotes or hinders development.
At Ex3 People, cultural analysis is an awareness-raising process. The analysis should not put people into boxes, but open up conversations about the invisible dynamics that shape behaviour, collaboration, and results.
Basis for decision
Decision basis is the knowledge, data and insight that make it possible to make qualified choices and prioritise effort.
People associate data with dialogue. A good basis for decision-making includes both measurements, human perspectives, and shared reflection, so that decisions can be grounded in the organisation's reality.
Diversity
Diversity is about differences in perspectives, experiences, skills, backgrounds, and ways of thinking and contributing.
At Ex3 People, diversity becomes valuable when differences are translated into shared learning. This requires a culture where differences can be met with curiosity, trust, and a conscious framework for creating a strong WE.
Potential
Right, we can develop
Leadership
Leadership is the ability to set direction, create followership, make choices, and support people and organisations to succeed.
At Ex3 People, leadership is a conscious practice between people. It is about seeing, contextualising, relating, integrating, and creating movement from individual effort to shared capacity.
Strategy
Strategy is the choices, priorities and actions that translate an organisation's purpose and ambitions into a clear direction.
People see strategy as something that can be lived. Strategy gains power when it is connected to culture, leadership, relationships, and everyday decisions, so that people can navigate meaningfully.
Learning
Learning is the process by which people and organisations develop new understanding, new competencies and better opportunities for action.
At Ex3 People, learning is linked to awareness. We learn when experiences, data, and dialogue are translated into insight, reflection, and new ways of acting together.
Innovation
Innovation is about creating new ideas, solutions, processes or practices that create value.
Ex3 People link innovation to culture and security. New solutions emerge more easily when people dare to share perspectives, challenge habits, and explore possibilities in a shared learning space.
Transformation
Transformation is a deeper change, where the organisation's ways of thinking, acting, collaborating, and creating value are altered over time.
At Ex3 People, transformation is a movement from ME to WE. It’s not just about implementation, but about maturity, awareness and collective ownership at strategic, tactical and operational levels.
Team development
Team development strengthens a team's collaboration, roles, communication, relationships, and ability to solve the core task together.
Ex3 People work with team development as a culture-shaping process. The team gains a common language for dynamics, expectations, and relationships, so the collective WE can become clearer and stronger, with a shared direction.
Organisational development
Organisational development is about developing structures, processes, culture, and capacity, so that the organisation can better achieve its goals.
At Ex3 People, organisational development happens through data, dialogue, and awareness. The focus is not just on changing systems, but on creating coherence between people, structure, purpose, and practice.
Staff development
Competence development is the targeted development of knowledge, skills, and behaviour that strengthens the individual's and the organisation's ability to succeed.
Ex3 People see competence development as more than training. Competences become strong when they are connected with maturity, reflection, relational intelligence, and the ability to act consciously within the community with greater self-awareness.
Progression
Progression describes movement, advancement, and development from a current level to a more mature or desired level.
People handler progression at Ex3 focuses on visualising development over time. When the organisation can see its progress, learning, responsibility, and next steps become more concrete and shared.
Growth
Growth is development in capacity, quality, market, results, or organisational strength.
Ex3 People understand growth as sustainable expansion and execution capability. Growth should not only be measured by size, but by the organisation's ability to create value, relational strength, and a healthy culture over time.
Cohesion
What we create together
Co-operation
Collaboration is the way people coordinate, contribute, and solve tasks together across roles, specialisms, and responsibilities.
At Ex3 People, collaboration is an expression of the quality of WE. It is strengthened when relationships, expectations, language and structures make it easier to contribute to the common core task.
Communication
Communication is the exchange of information, opinions, expectations, and feedback between people.
Ex3 People see communication as culture in motion. It's not just about sending messages, but about creating understanding, actively listening, and opening dialogues where multiple perspectives can meet.
Trust
Trust is the experience of being able to rely on each other, on decisions, and on the framework within which we operate.
At Ex3 People, trust is a relational and cultural capacity. Trust grows through clarity, integrity, curiosity, and repeated experiences of the community being able to carry both differences and responsibility.
Wellbeing
Wellbeing is about people's experience of comfort, meaning, balance, engagement and the opportunity to function well in working life.
People associate well-being with culture, relationships, and sustainable frameworks. Well-being is not just an individual concern, but something that is created in the interaction between people, tasks, and organisation.
Engagement
Engagement is the energy, interest and willingness that people bring to their work and community.
At Ex3 People, engagement arises when people can see meaning, feel connection, and experience that their contributions matter. Engagement is therefore both an emotional and cultural movement.
Common direction
Shared direction means people in the organisation have a shared understanding of goals, priorities, and the path they are moving along together.
People see common direction as a prerequisite for cohesion. Direction is created not only through strategy, but through dialogue, translation and anchoring in everyday practice.
Affiliation
Belonging describes people's experience of feeling connected, significant, and part of the organisation's community and purpose.
At Ex3 People, we favour attachment over retention. People don't just stay in organisations; they become attached when relationships, meaning, culture, and development opportunities are perceived as genuine.
Value creation
Value creation is about creating meaning and results for customers, employees, the organisation, and society.
Most people understand value creation broadly: people, planet, and profit. Value arises when human sustainability, culture, leadership, and business results are interconnected.
Sustainability
Sustainability is about creating solutions and working methods that can last over time - humanely, organisationally, economically, and societally.
At Ex3 People, sustainability is also cultural and relational. An organisation is sustainable when its way of leading, collaborating, and achieving results does not exhaust people, but develops capacity.
Results
Results are the concrete effects an organisation creates through goals, actions, achievements and value for stakeholders.
People see results as the consequence of conscious mechanisms. When culture, leadership, relationships, and structure are linked, results don't just become something you force, but something you create sustainably – together.