How PRI works

One question, four sliders, one clear signal

A daily check-in that takes seconds, aggregated into a live view of organisational stability and the direction it is moving.

The PRI daily check-in on a phone: four sliders from low to high for yesterday, today, tomorrow and next week, with no numbers shown.

The check-in

Ten seconds a day, nothing to install

People complete a ten-second daily check-in covering yesterday, today, tomorrow and next week by moving four sliders. There are no numbers to agonise over and no free text. It is voluntary and anonymous, opened from a link by email, Teams or the intranet.

Workforce Capacity

Yesterday and today: capacity available now.

Forward Stability

Tomorrow and next week: outlook for organisational stability ahead.

Trend

Momentum against a 4-week average: improving or deteriorating.

Signal Coverage

How many invited people responded: how much weight the reading carries.

What leadership sees

Shifts show up in days, not survey cycles

One view, updated daily: where the organisation sits, which way it is moving, and how many people are contributing.

The Stability Map

The quadrant to watch is Eroding: people are still delivering but expect things to get harder. Conventional metrics would show nothing yet.

Stability Map (illustrative) Forward Stability on the horizontal axis, Workforce Capacity on the vertical axis, each split at 50 into four quadrants: Eroding top left, Strong top right, Strained bottom left, Fragile bottom right. An illustrative path starts in Strong, moves through Eroding into Strained after a restructuring, then returns to Strong after management action. Eroding Strong Strained Fragile FORWARD STABILITY → WORKFORCE CAPACITY → Start Now

Four positions

Workforce Capacity on one axis, Forward Stability on the other, each split at the midpoint.

StrongCapacity now and confidence ahead.
ErodingCoping today, expecting worse. The early warning.
FragileDepleted now, expecting recovery.
StrainedLow now and low outlook.

After a management action, the map shows whether the organisation moves back towards Strong within weeks, not at the next survey.

The trend and the signal behind it

Read it like a share price: the daily line, the 4-week average, and response volume underneath.

PRI, 4-week average PRI, daily Responses per day Invited
PRI trend over 12 weeks (illustrative) Daily PRI and its 4-week moving average hold near 61, fall after a restructuring is announced in week 5, then recover after management action in week 8. Below, daily responses are shown as bars against 250 people invited. 30 40 50 60 70 threshold PRI Restructuring announced Management action 250 invited RESPONSES PER DAY W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 W10 W11 W12

Illustrative, simulated data: a restructuring is announced in week 5 and management acts in week 8.

Why not a pulse survey?

A pulse survey asks for opinions every few weeks. PRI takes seconds a day, asks about outlook for next week as well as how people are now, and turns the answers into one stability signal with a measure of how many people stand behind it.

What PRI is not

Designed to complement what you already have

Not a diagnosis

PRI indicates that organisational stability may be changing and where to look. Your existing management information and surveys help explain why.

Not a wellbeing programme

It is a performance and governance indicator for leadership: can the organisation sustain delivery through change?

Not individual monitoring

Nobody’s answers are ever visible. Leadership sees group results only.

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