5-Minute Evaluation Of Your Company CEO's Use: What's Great? Weak? Needs Fixing?

This survey is a quick and powerful way to assess your company or unit! Its 16 categories are composed of the vital parts of what make organizations sail or sputter, lead or follow. How do you stack up with the benchmarks of all other companies in the data base? What are the 2 or 3 areas really holding you back from super-performance? Find out here; the survey and benchmarks are below!

I. What Are The 16 Key Categories?

There  are 16 critical questions that gauge a company’s strategic health. Here is a simple, proven, and powerful one page survey, a quick check-up that has been used with leadership teams in hundreds of companies world-wide. It is The Strategic Enterprise Assessment. You answer how well the organization is doing in these vital categories. On a 4.0 Grade Point Average Scale, where 4.0 is A and 0.0 is an F. Over 250 leadership teams' evaluations are in this data base. The first time average scores of all 16 categories for all companies' 1st-time scores is 2.44 out of 4.00. That shows how many opportunities for improvement there are! The following are the categories, followed by the survey, analysis questions, and benchmarks:

1.    Structure: How effective is the organization set up to run?

2.     Culture: How healthy is the internal environment?

3.     Executives: How effective is senior leadership?

4.     Management:  How well is the management team functioning?

5.     Employees:  What is their overall quality and performance?

6.     Communications: How effective is the flow of information in all directions?

7.     Technology: How well is it being utilized throughout the company?

8.     Teamwork: How healthy are working relationships across all departments?

9.     Customers: How well are they known and their needs satisfied?

10.   Competitors:  Are they known and out-competed accordingly?

11.   Business: Is knowledge of the trade sufficient and well utilized?

12.   Financial: How well does the company optimize “the dollar” in all regards?

13.   Planning Process: How effective is how the company develops its plans?

14.   Market Strategy: How effective is the company’s external planning?

15.   Plan Content: How strong and clear are the company’s goal priorities?

16.   Implementation: How effective is the timely completion of co. plans?          

II. The Cabinet/Strategia Strategic Enterprise Assessment:

 Directions:  Indicate the extent of your agreement regarding how your organization is performing in each of the following areas by circling the  most accurate number.  

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                                  Strongly                       Partly                      Strongly

                                  Disagree   Disagree    Agree       Agree       Agree

   1.  Our organizational structure, roles, and responsibilit are clearly defined and effective.  

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  2.   Our company culture is empowering, uplifting, pleasant,  refreshing, and healthy. 

                                                      0              1              2              3             4

  3.   Our executive/leadership team is knowledgeable, capable, and effective.   

                                                      0              1              2              3             4

  4.   Our management/supervisory team is knowledgeable, capable, and effective. 

                                                      0              1              2               3            4

  5.   Our employee/associate team is knowledgeable, capable, and effective.       

                                                      0              1               2              3            4

  6.   Our communications in all directions (up, down, across, in, out) are efficient and effective. 

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  7.   Our technology (all office machinery, software, etc.) is helping us be productive and cost-effective.      

                                                      0             1               2              3            4

  8.   Our teamwork among departments, functions, offices, work groups, and teams is smooth and effective.                   

                                                      0             1               2              3            4

  9.   Our customer knowledge, service, needs-understanding, and actions are timely and effective.                                   

                                                      0             1                2              3            4

10.   Our competitor, plans, responses, and actions are timely and effective.                                                                           

                                                      0             1                2              3            4

11.   Our business knowledge and action concerning our expertise, industry, trends, economy, & global situation is adequate

                                                     0             1                2              3            4

12.   Our financial knowledge and action concerning sales, costs, P&L, banking, financing, cash flow,  & equity is adequate.

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13.   Our strategic and business plan content is clear, complete written down, and communicated.                                    

                                                    0            1                 2              3            4

14.   Our market strategies, including product plans, services plans, geographic & sales plans, are clear, complete, & shared. 

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15.   Our strategic and business planning process is clear, complete, smooth, and effective.                                                

                                                    0           1                 2              3           4

16.   Our strategic and business plan implementation is  timely/effective.                                                                                

                                                   0           1                 2              3            4

III. A Few Starter Questions:

1) What are the three greatest strengths of the company?     a)__________________ b)___________________c)___________________

2) What are the three greatest weaknesses of the company? a)__________________ b)___________________c)___________________

3) Communications and Implementation benchmark as  two of the lowest categories of over 220 corporate leadership team inputs. Similar, or different?  Y    N

Each set of four categories is a quadrant of 4 categories: I. Enterprise (cats. 1-4); II. Resources (cats. 5-8); III. Knowledge (9.-12.); IV. Deployment (13.-16.)

4) What is your highest Quadrant?____________What Is Your Lowest Quadrant?_____________ 

5) How is your Internal Index (2. Culture, 6. Communications, 8. Teamwork, 16. Implementation)? < 2.00 = Problems; > 3.00 = Excellent____________________

6) How is your External Index (9. Customers, 10. Competition, 14. Market Strategies)?                      <2.00 = Problems; > 3.00 =  Excellent____________________

7) What is the single greatest action that can be done this month to improve in your weakest category (what, who, when?)_________________

IV. The Benchmarks -- All Companies' Leadership Teams Taking the Strategic Enterprise Assessment for the 1st Time:

1. Structure 2.49/4.00 (9th)

2. Culture 2.59 (4th)

3. Executives 2.60 (3rd)

4. Management 2.55 (5th)

5. Employees 2.50 (8th)

6. Communications 2.23 (14th)

7. Technology 2.41 (10th)

8. Teamwork 2.30 (13th)

9. Customers 2.69 (1st)

10. Competitors 2.51 (7th)

11. Business 2.52 (6th)

12. Financial 2.66 (2nd)

13. Plan Content 2.36  (11th)

14. Market Strategy 2.35 (12th)

15. Planning Process 2.20 (15th)

16. Implementation 2.11 (16th)

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