The Organizational Needs Inventory® is a survey and comprehensive report relating to three key areas for every organization:

• Organizational Structure
• Predominant Leadership Style, and
• Organizational Culture

The ONI® Survey is a benchmark for continuous improvement that helps an organization’s leaders plan for the future with a clearer sense of direction and purpose. This tool can also help business owners and executives adapt appropriately to desired changes and to measure changes that occur over time.
The information produced by the ONI® provides leaders with a basis for better understanding their organization and implementing positive change.

The Organizational Needs Inventory (ONI) is a method for organizational leaders obtaining a basis for understanding:

• How members describe their organization’s structure and their views about what an ideal organization would be.
• How members describe the predominant leadership style employed in their organization and their views about what the ideal leadership style would be.
• How members describe their organizational culture and their views about what the ideal organizational culture would be.
• Areas of incompatibility among the present organizational structure, predominant leadership style, and organizational culture.
• What changes in attitudes and leadership styles would be beneficial in helping the organization achieve its goals.

The ONI is for organizations whose leaders want to build a better environment for attracting and retaining better associates, thereby achieving better operating results. Recognizing that dramatic changes are taking place in the way organizations are designed and managed is the first step.

Learning how things actually are and what they can be is next. Then comes a plan for the future, based upon a clear sense of direction and purpose. Finally, a plan of action is implemented to begin moving toward the desired future. The ONI instrument was designed to facilitate this process.