Step one
Audit my senior layer.
Before anyone proposes a programme to you, there should be a number. The audit produces one, at the layer, in an afternoon.
Most buyers take it themselves before sending it to anyone.
What it is
A short self-report instrument, taken on a phone, that locates where a senior person is actually operating from rather than how they are performing.
- Length
- 24 questions across 8 domains, about four minutes.
- Access
- A link. No login, no app to install, no account to create.
- Cost
- None, at any volume, whether or not a programme follows.
- Result to the individual
- Immediately on completion, to them, in full.
- Result to you
- An aggregate picture of the layer, released only once at least five people in a reporting group have completed it.
The thing that decides whether anyone answers honestly
Who sees what.
Every instrument of this kind lives or dies on one question, and your senior people will ask it inside four seconds: does this come back to me.
- The individual gets their own result in full. Nobody else receives an individual score, named or otherwise. Not you, not their manager, not the board.
- You get the layer, never the person. Aggregate only, and suppressed entirely below five respondents in a group, because a group of three is not anonymous however you label it.
- It is never a performance input. If it is going to be read in a calibration meeting, do not run it. We will ask you to state that in writing to participants before the link goes out, and the statement is not a formality, it is the only reason the data is worth having.
- No onward sale or sharing. The responses are not sold, syndicated or used to train anything.
What it is not
It is not a clinical screen and it does not diagnose anything. It is not a personality type, so nobody comes out of it as a colour or a letter. It is not a 360, so no one is rating anyone else.
It is a baseline. Its entire job is to make the Day 30 re-measure mean something, and to tell you, before you spend anything, whether your senior layer is in the state you assume it is in.
Running it across a layer
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Decide the population
Usually everyone at a given level and above, rather than a selected list. A selected list tells the people on it that they were selected, which changes the answers.
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Send one note, not a campaign
One message from the sponsor carrying the link, the four-minute number, and the confidentiality statement above in your own words. No reminders from HR systems.
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Leave it open for a week
Then we walk you through the aggregate picture in one sitting, with no proposal attached to it. If nothing in it concerns you, that is a complete and acceptable outcome.
Take it yourself first.
Four minutes, and you will know within the first six questions whether this is measuring something your current instruments miss.