We have developed a range of complimentary diagnostic tools to help you understand more about the challenges and opportunities in your business and personal life. The 27 diagnostics below will help you identify areas to focus on and provide you guidance around the steps to take to address these key issues. Each diagnostic takes around 4-7 minutes to complete and you can complete as many as you like. You will receive a PDF report via email and have the opportunity to discuss your results with us if you wish.
Burnout
Identifying the elements of burnout in an organisation is critically important right now. We know that the burnout is there, we need to know what burnout reduction mechanisms are in place and how our teams perceive them. Complete these 19 questions (it should only take you 3 minutes) to identify from the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve your organisation’s resilience to burnout.
Business Sale-Readiness
A business is sale-ready when the owners are ready for change and a prospective buyer values it at or above what the owners want. Complete our short questionnaire (it should only take you about 5 minutes) to identify the top 3 factors that are working well and those which require the most attention to improve your business’ level of sale-readinesss.
Business Scale-Up
Scaling up a business is often easier said than done especially in unpredictable and challenging market environments. Scaling up involves accelerating growth but also boosting business value through a variety of factors. Take this 25-question Business Scale-up diagnostic to discover your strengths to build on and weaknesses to address from 10 key success factors relating to scaling up i.e. Strategy, Implementation, Vision, Leadership, People, Change Readiness, Product/Service, Model, Marketing/Sales, Technology/Systems and Cashflow.
Cash Out Ready
Why this Cash Out Ready Diagnostic? Whether you are planning on selling your business soon or focusing on growing your company into the future, the value of your business and its sustainable growth plan are impacted by the same 7 internal factors. Identifying your company’s strengths and weaknesses is the first step in developing a sustainable growth plan that will enhance the value and growth of your business.
Change Success
Research tells us there is only a 30% probability your change initiative will succeed. This is because most business people adopt a ‘trial and error’ approach to change incurring a high cost in terms of lost time, reduced confidence, wasted money and poor resource utilisation. But you can improve this probability of change success.
Change Success Personal
Research tells us there is only a 30% probability your personal or business change initiative will succeed. This is because most people adopt a ‘trial and error’ approach to change incurring a high cost in lost time, reduced confidence, wasted money and poor resource utilisation. But you can dramatically improve this probability of personal change success using the Mindshop Change Success Diagnostic to identify areas for improvement and implementing strategies to achieve change success.
Coaching Ability
As leaders it’s important to have the capabilities to coach and support your teams. Where should you focus your time to build new skills to improve your coaching ability?
Construction Industry Health Check
Understanding the key areas for improvement is a critical attribute for any business to embrace in order to keep their operations as well as their products & services at the cutting edge. This is vital as the construction industry continues to become more & more competitive. Complete these 20 questions (it should only take you 4 minutes) to identify the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve your construction business’ performance.
Culture
‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ is a famous quote from legendary management consultant and author Dr Peter Drucker that stresses the importance of having a great culture in a business. Where do you need to focus your energies to improve the culture in your business?
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence has become increasingly relevant to leadership as well as for career and business success. It’s about being in touch with one’s self, knowing one’s self, knowing how to connect with others and being aware of one’s impact on others. These are all key skills for a leader and are vital for both personal and professional success.
Employee Engagement
The importance of employee engagement can’t be overstated – employee engagement has been proven to reduce staff turnover, improve productivity and efficiency, improve customer service and retention, and deliver higher profits. Ultimately, having an engaged team makes a business easier to run, and enables it to focus on activities that deliver higher value, such as innovation, process improvement, and development.
Family Business
Our work has identified 10 key factors that successful family businesses excel in. Answering the 30 questions in this Family Business Diagnostic will help you identify your top 3 strengths and weaknesses.
Financial Governance
By making financial governance more effective, it is likely your company will create value and increase wealth for shareholders. Improving the quality of financial performance, not just profit, will flow through to a higher valuation. This diagnostic contains the key success factors to focus financial governance on reducing risk and increase potential earnings multiples to improve your company’s valuation. Complete these 16 questions to identify from 6 factors the top 3 areas that are working well and the top 3 areas you need to work on.
Growth and Profit Solutions (GPS) Business
Are you struggling to prioritise your business issues and opportunities? Do you need clarification on which strategies will accelerate the growth and profit of your business?
Growth Potential
Profitable growth is a critical attribute for any business to enable success. Complete these 20 questions (it should only take you 4 minutes) to identify from 10 factors the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve your business’ growth potential.
How Well Do You Know Your Business Numbers?
Business maths is a crucial skill for every business owner to learn and understanding your numbers is a critical attribute for any business to embrace to make better business decisions and improve their business performance. Complete these 28 questions (it should only take you 5 minutes) to identify from 6 factors the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve your understanding of your business numbers. You will also have the ability to see how you compare to the global benchmark (average scores of all completed diagnostics) on each of the 6 factors.
Innovation
Innovation is a critical attribute for any business to embrace in order to keep their operations as well as their products and/or services at the cutting edge.
Leadership
Regardless of whether we run a business, manage or are part of a team, we all lead in some way. But leadership styles vary greatly. Are you a visionary, a great implementer, strategic thinker or team coach? What are the fundamental attributes that set great leaders apart? What are your leadership strengths and weaknesses?
Life Balance
Having a balanced life is not about being perfect in all areas. It is about ensuring that any emphasis that may be put into one or more areas of your life is not causing an imbalance and issues in other areas.
Listening
Listening is one of those critical skills that are absolutely mandatory for leaders to both have and to be able to effectively demonstrate. Having two ears and hearing is not the same as actively listening. Poor listening skills too is the one area that causes the most conflict in communication. Complete this diagnostic to see what areas might be your strengths and which areas you might need to examine further.
Marketing
How will you achieve greater cut through with your marketing to your target customers in an increasingly cluttered market? Where are your opportunities to improve your marketing strategy?
Performance Enhancement
Performance management is a critical attribute for any business to embrace in order to keep their operations as well as their products and or services at the cutting edge. Complete these 20 questions (it should only take you 4 minutes) to identify from 10 factors the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve a particular employee’s performance management levels.
Personal Resilience
Having good personal resilience is about how well you bounce back from adversity in your personal or business life. How can you improve your own levels of resilience?
Profit/Efficiency
Do you have the profit levels you desire in your business? Does it run as efficiently as you would like?
Referral Ready
Complete these 22 questions (it should only take you 4 minutes) to identify from 8 factors the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve your referral readiness. You will also have the ability to see how you compare to the global benchmark (average scores of all completed diagnostics) on each of the 8 factors.
Sales
A critical capability for any business is the ability to sell their products and/or services effectively. Where can your improve your sales skills?
Strategic Planning
Good strategic thinking and implementation of the right strategies is critical to the success of any organisation. A well-developed strategy is seen as the blueprint to help drive organisations to win in their chosen markets. On the flip side, organisations can fall into the trap of thinking they are good strategic planners, when in fact they are often just doing more of the same each year and fighting to keep ahead in highly competitive markets. This diagnostic identifies your top 3 strategic planning strengths and weaknesses and guidance on how to improve your planning performance overall. We recommend you should also consider the Mindshop Change Success and Culture Diagnostics when undertaking Strategic Planning.
Succession Planning
A succession plan identifies key positions, identifies emergency and long-term replacement options and is updated on a regular basis. Complete these 18 questions (it should only take you 4 minutes) to identify from 6 factors the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve your succession plan development and implementation. You will also have the ability to see how you compare to the global benchmark (average scores of all completed diagnostics) on each of the 6 factors.
Survival
In difficult economic times where do you as a leader need to focus your energies to ensure you can survive and navigate the business through as successfully as possible?
Team Attraction and Retention
Managing capacity through attracting and retaining (A & R) the best people is a critical attribute for any business to embrace in order to keep their operations profitable. Complete these 25 questions (it should only take you 4 minutes) to identify from 10 factors the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve A & R performance. You will also have the ability to see how you compare to the global benchmark (average scores of all completed diagnostics) on each of the 10 factors.
Time and Priority Managment
Time and priority management is the process of managing the choices we make regarding the things we do within the time available such that we can maximize the fulfillment and results we achieve. We all have 168 hours to use in a week and some seem to use those hours more effectively than others.