This is a challenge for every company owner and manager. You have tremendous plans for growth and expect a lot of your employees. But do you know if company is meeting your best employees’ expectations? Are you providing type of environment that supports high productivity and high quality? Do you really want to know?

If you do, consider creating a Company Performance Review to find out what your company culture really is. Find out how employees feel about their environment and morale at your company. The Company Performance Review asks employees if they see certain behaviors occurring at your company – behaviors that could kill a company over time if left unchecked. It will help you determine if there are ethical issues you need to be concerned about in your company.

This review must be completed anonymously, or employees won’t be comfortable answering honestly. The object is to make all employees suddenly more aware that actions that are sometimes common in companies can do real and lasting damage. It takes effort to increase recognition of ethical issues to make it easier to begin setting standards.

For instance, here are some questions you might consider asking employees – but only if you are ready to deal with answers in whole culture (don’t kill messenger).

1. Personal insight. Great CEOs are great leaders. They know themselves and what they stand for. They have been called on all their lives as problem solvers because others know them to be fair and impartial. People respect their opinions and look to them for guidance. Great CEOs are mature as people. They can suffer disappointment more gracefully than others and give others credit for their achievements. They don’t come in office door yelling for something they need. They aren’t as concerned about titles or power structures as they are about welfare of those who work at company. They are trustworthy because they’ve always been honest with people and have earned that trust. They care about families, and they know that people are more important than dollars and express it in their actions every day. Finally, great CEOs seek out feedback. They want to know how others see them so that they can understand themselves better and continue to grow as people. They also want feedback about company from an employee perspective, and they use surveys as a starting point for creating a dialogue to make things better.

2. Resourcefulness. Great CEOs seem to have boundless energy. They come to work with greatest enthusiasm. Even when they don’t feel like it, they find ways to reenergize themselves and come in ready to go. They take good care of themselves physically and emotionally so that they can be there for employees and needs of company. They give much more than they take every day. They don’t give up. If wall is too high, they back down and find another way around. They don’t blame, but they do look for solutions to problems so that those problems are less likely to happen again.