Ata Regenerative Services
Organisational Health Assessments
Is your business alive? Do people feel valued and motivated to contribute? Lack of engagement is one of the greatest costs to a business, is your staff turn over high and/or the level of engagement low? In treating people as dispensable as if a cog in a machine they become disincentivized and disengaged, is this affecting your business?
- Discover underlying opportunities and challenges in the organization
- Align around actionable solutions to grow underlying health and Regenerative Capacity
- Engage in meaningful conversations with a common language
- Gain perspective and build clarity and cohesion on organizational processes
- Monitor underlying health and Regenerative Capacity of the organization over time
- Unleash the potential of the organization
This is a web-based tool developed by nRhythm and applied successfully to monitor the health of organisations and communities to inform effective redesign.
The Organizational Health Index (OHI) is an easily administered, comprehensive baseline assessment of the underlying health and Regenerative Capacity of the design and operations of an organization or community.
By monitoring and evaluating organisational health and Regenerative Capacity over time, this allows the underlying issues to be addressed and the creation of the conditions for thriving, resilient teams, organizations, networks, collaboratives and communities.
While the assessments themselves are comprehensive and revealing, the true power of the Organisational Health Index is the conversations that emerge from the results.
Ata can measure the Regenerative Health of your business through the Organisation Health Index
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Discover opportunities and identify challenges
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Provide alignment around actions to improve organisational health
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Create meaningful, inclusive conversations
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Build clarity and cohesion in organisational processes
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Ongoing monitoring of organisational health and regenerative capacity
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Unleash organisational potential
Unleash the potential in your organisation and create the conditions for people to thrive
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an organisational health assessment?
An organisational health assessment is a comprehensive review of how well your business or organisation functions beneath the surface — culturally, structurally, and relationally.
It looks at the conditions that support or hinder thriving teams, such as leadership alignment, staff engagement, communication, decision-making processes, and clarity of purpose.
In Aotearoa New Zealand, where connection, trust, and shared values are essential in business and community, these assessments help highlight both visible and subtle dynamics that impact performance and wellbeing.
How do you measure the health of an organisation?
The health of an organisation can be measured using tools like the Organisational Health Index (OHI), which evaluates multiple dimensions of performance and culture.
At Āta, we use a web-based diagnostic developed by nRhythm, which provides a regenerative lens — looking not just at what’s working or not, but how healthy the conditions are for your people and processes to thrive.
Measurements focus on areas such as leadership cohesion, clarity of roles, relationships, decision-making, adaptability, and overall engagement.
Data from the OHI is both quantitative and qualitative, allowing organisations to track changes over time while fostering inclusive, actionable conversations.
What is included in an organisational assessment?
A typical organisational assessment includes a blend of:
•Cultural indicators (e.g. staff engagement, communication flow, decision-making involvement)
•Structural components (e.g. role clarity, system design, adaptability)
•Relational dynamics (e.g. trust, collaboration, sense of belonging)
•Operational feedback (e.g. process alignment, flow of work, responsiveness to change)
Āta’s approach also includes facilitated discussions based on the results, which are often where the deepest insights and transformational shifts emerge.
What are the four disciplines of organisational health?
Drawing from Patrick Lencioni’s model, the four disciplines of organisational health are:
1. Build a cohesive leadership team
2. Create clarity across the organisation
3. Overcommunicate that clarity
4. Reinforce clarity through systems and behaviours
At Āta, we go further by applying regenerative principles, ensuring the organisation isn’t just clear and aligned, but alive — capable of evolving, learning, and adapting in healthy ways.
How do you perform a health assessment?
We begin by inviting participation across the organisation using the Organisational Health Index, which is completed online in a way that’s accessible and inclusive.
Once the data is collected, we analyse it across regenerative design principles, identifying strengths, gaps, and patterns.
The most valuable part of the process is the collective conversation that follows — where we explore the insights, align around opportunities, and co-design paths forward.
This assessment is not a one-off audit, but a tool for ongoing development and long-term resilience.
What is organisational capacity assessment?
Organisational capacity assessment looks at your ability to deliver on your purpose — not just in terms of resources, but also relationships, leadership, learning, and responsiveness.
From a regenerative perspective, it’s about more than doing more with less — it’s about enhancing the living system of your organisation.
This includes evaluating energy flow, communication loops, resource use, and how adaptive and responsive your systems are over time.
By measuring capacity regularly, we can help you build an organisation that doesn’t just function, but flourishes.
