Here we explain how the assessment works and answer frequently asked questions.
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What does it ANALYZE?
- 200+ performance related variables (incl. performance losses & gains)
- Areas addressed: performance & potential, leadership, culture, vision, mind-set, alignment, strategy & execution.
- Variables selected based on global best practice and cross industry bench-marking.
What does it REVEAL?
- Hidden potential including gaps in strategy, execution, ambition and teamwork.
- Key performance gains and losses
- Alignment issues – conflicting priorities & divergent views.
- Blind spots, limiting beliefs and false assumptions on the part of managers.
- Unspoken issues of risk, politics, or performance.
- The ‘soft stuff’ including: Organizational Leadership, Culture, Vision, Mindset and Empowerment
- The ‘hard stuff’ including accountability, reporting, controls, planning and implementation.
How does it BENCHMARK?
- Benchmarking against internal and external best practice
- Industry-wide benchmarking across 47 international markets
- External reference point prevents a ‘blinkered view’
- Compares results across business units, departments & managers over time
What does it MEASURE?
- Performance to date
- Future potential
- At the level of the organization, as well as for different business units, projects & teams
- From multiple perspectives within the organization/unit
- External comparison / industry bench-marking
What is the SCIENCE?
- Built on bench-marking data over 47 markets, 6 books published and 2.2 million pages of best practice research.
- Uses a sophisticated / scientific assessment that delivers the highest level of accuracy & reliability.
- Compensates for bias, as well as blind spots on the part of managers.
- Measures the science as well as the psychology of growth
- Leverages complex algorithms and predictive analytics.
How does it VALIDATE?
- Challenges the way people see things:
- Tackling blind spots, false assumptions, etc.
- Reconcile external and internal realities.
- Objectively determined – free or personalities and politics
- Compares and contrasts results across business units, departments and managers
- Compensates for bias, as well as blind spots on the part of managers.
- Checks for internal consistency – e.g. reveals hidden attitudes and beliefs that could limit growth.
- Benchmarking against external best practice to avoid a blinkered view of reality