Why your team loses momentum
despite having top people.
No data overload, no report that ends up in a drawer. In under 10 minutes per person, CORE9 reveals the one lever that is currently slowing your collaboration - based on 9 evidence-based performance factors, fully anonymous.
How CORE9 works
No 40-page reports that end up in a drawer. One clear lever your leadership team can pull in the next 30 days.
Assessment
10 min per person
Short, low-threshold, anonymous – no login, no email.
Instant report
Once the minimum is reached
Heatmap, priorities, risks and clear recommendations.
Debrief + playbooks
Implement together
Interpretation in a workshop + a concrete 30-day action plan.
The 9 factors of collective effectiveness
CORE9 analyses nine core factors that determine whether teams unlock their potential – or lose energy.
Relational Strength
Reliability
Zuverlässigkeit
Reliable commitments and clean handovers build trust and reduce friction.
Candor
Offene Kommunikation
Open, direct conversations surface risks early and speed up better decisions.
Safety
Psychologische Sicherheit
Psychological safety increases participation and learning – without fear of blame.
Performance Clarity
Focus
Fokus & Prioritäten
Clear priorities focus energy on what matters and shorten lead times.
Ownership
Eigenverantwortung
Clear ownership prevents gaps and makes sure tasks get finished.
Execution
Zielorientierung
Structured execution turns plans into results – measurable, on time and repeatable.
Organisational Strength
Decisions
Entscheidungsklarheit
Clear decision paths avoid blockages and move teams from discussion to action faster.
Inclusion
Einbindung & Vielfalt
Inclusive collaboration makes better use of perspectives and raises commitment in diverse teams.
Enablement
Befähigung & Rahmenbedingungen
The right working conditions make good work possible and scalable.
Not as isolated indicators.
But as an integrated performance architecture.
The result in your hands
What your report looks like
No 40-page data dump. Four pages your leadership team understands in 10 minutes - and that lead straight into a conversation.
Traffic-light status for 9 factors
At a glance: what is stable, what needs development, what is a priority.
One clear main lever
The one factor slowing your team the most right now - including a risk assessment.
Concrete actions
Quick wins, a workshop recommendation and a 30-day experiment per development area.
Anonymised sample report of a fictitious company - no real customer data. The report is currently in German.
Why CORE9 is not a classic survey
CORE9 complements engagement or culture surveys – it doesn't replace them. It adds the structural perspective.
| Classic survey | CORE9 |
|---|---|
| Mood indicators | Architecture analysis |
| Many fields of action | One clear main lever |
| Broad measures | Precise intervention |
| Individual focus | Systemic focus |
| Long reports | Executive snapshot |
Voices from practice
Feedback from pilot teams - anonymised, because we don't name names here either.
We thought we lacked discipline. The report showed that decisions in the leadership circle stayed open for too long. The conversation afterwards was completely different.
Within two days we knew where the friction between development and sales really was - without months of survey debates.
Anonymity was the precondition for our team to answer honestly. Our works council saw it exactly the same way.
Team-level insights – no individual assessment
Purpose: team development – not performance monitoring.
Privacy details →Start in three steps
Start small, see impact fast - and only then roll out. The entry point is a single pilot team.
Pilot team
1 team, up to 20 employees
- Anonymous survey for one team (5+ people)
- Full team report with the main lever
- Concrete actions for the next 30 days
- Results in days, not months
Department & company audit
Multiple teams and locations
- Survey several teams in parallel
- Comparison between departments
- Overview for the executive team
- Repeat as a pulse to track progress
Audit + debrief workshop
Diagnosis with guidance
- Everything in the company audit
- Facilitated debrief with leadership and HR
- Joint action plan
- Guidance by Dresden Academy
Minimum for a report: 5 people per team - so anonymity is always protected.
From measuring to acting
Built by people who work with teams every day
CORE9 was created at the Dresden Academy of Applied Communication - out of our daily work with leadership teams, trainings and workshops. Classic surveys take time, tie up capacity and often deliver only a subjective snapshot instead of a clear picture of the whole team. That's why we built an instrument that, in just a few minutes per person, reveals the one lever currently holding your team back - concrete enough to start the conversation right away, and effective enough to create lasting change.
Debrief workshop
Read the results together and turn the main lever into actions.
Team & leadership trainings
Conversation skills, conflict resolution, feedback - matched to the findings.
Follow-up pulse
Measure again after a few weeks and prove the progress.