Every result 37 Questions produces is made of three parts. None of them mean much on their own. What matters is the distance between the first two.
Curiosity, creativity and connectedness. Not fixed traits, resources you can draw on, that can grow or shrink depending on where you're working.
The instinct to ask, explore and question, rather than settle for what's already known.
The willingness to try an idea out loud before it's proven, and stay curious about where it leads.
How safe it feels to be known by the people you work with, not just tolerated by them.
Engagement, job satisfaction and wellbeing, measured as they are today. Not what the culture says it values, what people are actually experiencing.
How present and invested someone feels in the work in front of them, day to day.
Whether the role, and the way it's set up, actually feels worth doing.
The underlying state someone's in, mentally and physically, because of how work is affecting them.
The distance between capacity and climate. A wide gap usually means real capacity isn't translating into engagement, satisfaction or wellbeing.
You hire good people. The real question is whether the workplace lets what they're capable of actually come through.
37 Questions doesn't just report the size of a gap, it points at what's causing it. Sometimes a capacity genuinely needs developing, someone's curiosity, creativity or connectedness hasn't had room to grow yet. More often, the capacity is already there, and it's the climate that isn't making space for it, low engagement, low job satisfaction, or wellbeing under strain.
Knowing which one you're looking at changes what you do next. A people development programme won't fix a climate problem, and a culture initiative won't grow a capacity that was never really there.
And it's rarely the whole picture. Most results point at one climate factor limiting one capacity, not a blanket verdict on the whole team. 37 Questions is built to be that specific.
Why capacity and climate, why a gap rather than a single score, and the research underneath it.
Read the thinking → for teamsWhen you're ready to move past your own result, this is what bringing your team in looks like, and what it costs.
Explore the team version →37 Questions is a commercial programme built on research into playfulness, adaptability and human thriving at work, carried out by The Playfulness Lab, a UK non-profit.