A confidential staff and leadership survey designed by lab animal professionals for lab animal programs, benchmarked against the industry.
It shows how your people experience the program, in numbers you can act on.
Each of the five core indexes is rated Strong, Good, Moderate or Weak against industry benchmarks.
How staff are coping with the workload and the emotional weight of animal care.
How staff experience the direction and support they get from leaders.
Whether people see a path to build skills and advance.
How well daily processes help people do good work.
How staff see the ethical treatment of animals, the speaking-up culture and adherence to standards.
Confidence in the organization and in a lab animal science career.
Five steps, ending in your team’s action plan.
1
Program leaders complete a questionnaire with key program metrics.
2
Each staff member gets a unique link from a secure third-party platform. The survey takes about 10 minutes and stays open for 28 days, with a goal of 90% participation.
3
You see results for each dimension, benchmarked against the industry.
4
An ACTS organizational development expert walks your leaders through what the results mean.
5
Leaders and staff turn the results into a plan for what to change first.
Responses are anonymized and managed by a secure third-party platform.
Individual responses are not identifiable by ACTS or by your institution.
The Scorecard shows how your people experience the program. A program assessment adds a review of technical competency and management.
Together they show where training, veterinary staffing or consulting will help most. ACTS can staff that work from its network of 30+ subject matter experts.
Your animal care staff, supervisors and leaders take the confidential survey. Program leaders also complete a questionnaire with key program metrics.
About 10 minutes. The survey stays open for 28 days, and the goal is 90% participation.
No. Responses are anonymized and managed by a secure third-party platform. Individual responses are not identifiable by ACTS or the institution.
A Scorecard report with industry benchmarks, followed by a results consultation with an ACTS organizational development expert and team action planning.
Lab animal professionals designed it for lab animal programs.
