How the eoQ™ can help your EO business drive performance in 2026

It’s no secret that there’s no ‘one size fits all’ approach to employee ownership and making your EO model a key business strength takes time.

The journey that begins with a signature on a piece of paper is just that: a beginning.

Shaping what employee ownership means for you and your people, understanding what’s working and what’s not so you can reset (if necessary) and move forward with confidence needs thought, energy and care.

That’s where the eoQ™ comes in.

Understanding and improving your EO performance

Created by GreatEO in collaboration with the eoa, the eoQ™ is an EO organisational health check.

It provides a simple, intuitive way to better understand the effectiveness of your EO model which our EO team is delighted to be able to offer our employee-owned clients.

Developed in partnership with EO experts Deb Oxley, Campbell McDonald and the eoa, the eoQ™ diagnoses and benchmarks your EO model against best practice.

The bespoke eoQ™ findings report then sets out your EO strengths and weaknesses, identifies any disagreement about what employee ownership means in your business, and provides leaders, trustees and councils with actionable insights to improve your EO performance.

Developing a roadmap for EO success

'Lots of EO businesses are scratching around in the dark, trying to figure out how to switch on EO. They need [the eoQ™] to really show them how to do it'

The eoQ™ helps EO businesses to measure and activate their EO by providing important and useful data and insights that most employee-owned businesses currently lack.

Telos Partners’ experienced EO team can then also work with you to engage and debrief key stakeholders and support you to develop a roadmap so you can continue to leverage the advantages of being employee-owned.

As Ann-Marie Conway – Associate Director of leading work and wellbeing services provider Seetec (one of those who has made use of the eoQ™) – explains: ‘Lots of employee-owned businesses are scratching around in the dark, trying to figure out how to switch on EO.

‘They’re missing the bigger picture. They need this kind of data and structured approach to really show them how to do it.’

EO business Seetec has already made use of the eoQ™

Driving actionable EO insights

Our consultant Alex Bloom agrees, highlighting the eoQ™ as an invaluable way for employee-owned businesses of all sizes and sectors to measure and improve their EO performance.

'The eoQ™ draws on proven EO management best practice,' he says.

'It makes use of the Great EO Framework which was built using insights gathered from robust research data including the interviews with business leaders and employee owners carried out by Telos Partners on behalf of the eoa.'

Consultant Alex Bloom is part of our knowledgeable EO team

Alex adds: 'As a diagnostic tool, the eoQ™ provides decision-useful data on your employee ownership model to your board, executive leadership team and wider governance groups – enabling them to make the kind of data-driven decisions and judgements they do across every other area of operational practice.

'Through Telos Partners' involvement, I'm looking forward to helping those who sign up for this EO organisational health check initially to understand this data and use it to build their own EO Improvement Roadmap.'

'It's interesting to be part of an initiative that drives actionable insights for employee-owned businesses at a time when the EO sector is passionate about showing the positive impacts it generates.'

Next steps – join our free eoQ™ explainer sessions

Want to know more?

Hear first-hand client experience of how the eoQ™ can provide decision-useful data about the health and strength of EO in your business at the free eoQ™ explainer sessions Alex is hosting this month.

Join one of these two virtual sessions:

• For EOT Trustees/Council Members: Wed 21 January — 10.30-11.30am

• For Exec Leaders/Board Directors: Wed 28 January — 10.30-11.30am

To reserve your place RSVP at insights@greateo.com – stating your preferred date.

Alternatively, if you'd like to know more about how our team can support your EO business, please visit our EO page and get in touch to arrange a no-obligation meeting here.