How Well Your Business Does In The Future Rests On THREE Things
ONE - A viable strategy and plan.
Complete with a clear vision, brand and story, business models, appreciation of the market context/dynamics and coherent objectives - all well-understood by the important stakeholders.
TWO - The operation that can deliver the strategy and plan.
A successful and sustainable business requires the right processes, systems, facilities, infrastructure, appropriate culture and mechanisms.
THREE - Sustainable in every sense of the word.
TAKE THE TESTS
Take The Free Assessments
About Assessments
Surveys and assessments are extremely valuable in understanding the current reality in an organization and gaining insights from employees and stakeholders around the future.
They provide a mechanism to get direct feedback from many people in a structured way. This helps us uncover key issues, perceptions, and concerns that leaders may not be aware of.
This provides a baseline and a way to track trends over time. They allow people to provide anonymous input, which may encourage more candid and honest feedback.
This can uncover problems or areas of concern that people may hesitate to bring up otherwise. The aggregate results from many individuals provide a broad perspective on the overall state and climate of the organization.
Patterns and trends emerge that provide clues to key opportunities and issues. They can assess the impact of organizational changes or initiatives by measuring key variables before and after. This provides feedback on what's working and where more work is needed.
They enable benchmarking between different groups in the organization or against other organizations. This can highlight areas that need more focus and investment.
The results from surveys and assessments form an important input into our frameworks and provide an effective organizational diagnosis for planning. Leaders can gain valuable insights that inform strategic and operational decisions.
Repeating the same surveys over time enables the measurement of progress and continuing refinement of priorities and initiatives. The organization can track how its "health" and capability are evolving.
THE KEY THEMES:
We know where we stand in our market and when set against the competition. We are clear about what we want to achieve. We have everything we need to get there. Everyone is on board for the journey and knows their roles and responsibilities. We have the right plans in place.
Our management and governance are effective. We operate within a healthy ecosystem and culture. We have a strong and positive reputation and identity. As leaders, we take our responsibilities seriously. We deliver on our promises and we manage expectations properly.
WHAT WE WILL ACHIEVE WITH THE BASELINE
We ask many of the questions necessary to be answered when building any meaningful plan for the future.
A Realistic And Impartial Assessment - Every business is different so the answers you give will depend to a high degree on your industry and market context. And we will take that into account as we move through an assignment.
Individual Perspectives - The answers depend heavily on the maturity and health of the business and the mindset of the individuals taking part in the assessments. We will factor this as we learn more about the stakeholder’s perspectives over time.
The Gaps/Opportunities We Need To Know - Answering them honestly as individuals gives us a rare insight across the community - the answers are blind to allow people to share openly - is the first step to success.
Informed Insights - The results will put us on the path to knowing what to do next.
You are free to take them right now to get a sense and you will get an online report. The power is when the aggregated analysis across a ream is understood as part of an overall Structured Visual Thinking™ program.
Enjoy.
THE FRAMEWORK CONFIGURATION TOOL
Armed with the baseline and the agreed-upon challenge (the exam question) - we can start to design the conversational frameworks and program need to make genuine change happen.
The configuration tool is free to use. This free version is not directly connected to the assessments that typically drive them.
One of many free guides on the work of Structured Visual Thinking™, Framework Science™ and the how and why of our work. Free to download below.