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Diagnostics and working tools

Understand what shapes performance.
Identify what needs to change.

Organisations often struggle with problems that persist despite repeated efforts to solve them. The underlying causes may lie in strategy, culture, leadership and management practices that shape how people work. Our tools help you uncover and address those causes.

Here you will find tools we have created to make essential insights widely accessible. Diagnostic tools help leadership teams see patterns and compare perspectives, as a starting point for understanding which conditions may need to change. Development and intervention tools translate insights about what makes strategy, organisational change and collaboration successful into practical ways of working.

Direction and strategic changeLeadership and management effectivenessCulture, adaptability and innovation

Direction and strategic change

Project Blind Spots Check

What it helps answer
What cognitive, political and organisational blind spots put our major initiative at risk?
What participants take into the conversation
An eight-trap evidence profile, critical review points and three priority actions for an executive sponsor.
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Living the Purpose Check

What it helps answer
Does purpose change what people notice, choose and do?
What participants take into the conversation
A six-characteristic profile showing where purpose shapes action and where the link to performance breaks.
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Best-of-Both Culture Scan

What it helps answer
Where do two organisations operate differently, and which strengths should be deliberately combined?
What participants take into the conversation
A view of 14 cultural assumptions and the differences that warrant a best-of-both discussion.
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Open Strategy Development

What it helps answer
What strategic options emerge when employees and selected external stakeholders help shape the agenda?
What participants take into the conversation
A set of strategic options for leadership to evaluate and choose from.
In development
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The complete Trompenaars Hampden-Turner approach covers culture integration and M&A value creation.

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Leadership and management effectiveness

Executive Team Effectiveness

What it helps answer
How will we build a high-performance team with shared direction, clear roles and effective ways of working?
What participants take into the conversation
A focused intervention that produces agreements on direction, responsibilities, behaviour and management cadence.
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Team Effectiveness Check

What it helps answer
How well do we work together as a team? Based on Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
What participants take into the conversation
A five-dimension profile and prompts for discussion.
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Management System Health Check

What it helps answer
How well are the key management practices that support organisational effectiveness and continued growth in place?
What participants take into the conversation
The management practices that most need attention, from priorities and accountability to feedback and execution.
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The Management Shift

What it helps answer
How should we change how we lead and manage to increase organisational adaptability and speed?
What participants take into the conversation
A record of current and desired positions across six management processes and six leadership principles.
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Bottom-up Organisation Improvement

What it helps answer
How can we continuously improve our organisation by enabling teams to identify and systematically replace what gets in the way of doing great work?
What participants take into the conversation
A rolling set of improvement opportunities that teams can run, review and spread across the organisation.
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Culture, adaptability and innovation

Living the Values Check

What it helps answer
How closely does the culture people experience match the values the organisation says it lives by?
What participants take into the conversation
A culture capture showing what to preserve, what to change and which tensions deserve attention.
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Innovation Capability Assessment

What it helps answer
Where are we strong at innovation, and where do we get stuck?
What participants take into the conversation
A capability profile across growth blueprint, processes, governance, and leadership, talent and culture.
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Bureaucratic Mass Index

What it helps answer
How much does bureaucracy get in the way of getting work done?
What participants take into the conversation
A score out of 100 for 10 questions and a clear basis for an offsite discussion.
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Hidden Blockers Survey

What it helps answer
What hidden organisational blockers make it harder for people to speak up, act on what they know and adapt at speed?
What participants take into the conversation
A profile showing where blockers concentrate and how executive, middle-management and frontline perceptions differ.
In development

Adaptability Audit™

What it helps answer
What in the way we work made it hard to adapt in a specific situation?
What participants take into the conversation
An evidence-based view of what held the organisation back and where to intervene.
In development

Which conversation does your leadership team need to have?

Complete a tool independently, compare the results and bring the differences into your next management meeting or offsite.

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