Define Compass
Understand the environment you're leading. Then decide where to focus.
A confidential diagnostic for founders and leaders of growing businesses. In fifteen minutes, assess your team and working environment across four lenses, see where change is most needed, and identify the leadership approach that fits.
A clear read on your current environment
Effective leadership starts with an accurate reading of the conditions you are leading in. The Define Compass reads four foundational areas of your practice: how work is organised, how people are supported, what the work means, and how influence and decisions move. It shows you the dynamics at play in each, where attention is most needed now, and the leadership approach suited to those conditions.
The four lenses
What we measure
Systems
Roles, processes and rhythm: how work moves through the practice and whether that can be relied on.
People
Capability, workload and support: whether the team has what it needs to do the work well.
Purpose
Values, standards and the stories the practice tells about itself: whether the work still means what it should.
Alignment
Influence, decision rights and unspoken tension: how power and resources move, and who is heard.
Ten questions each
Forty questions in total, each rated on a five-point scale.
Your result
A score for each lens, and a place to start
Each lens is scored separately, so you see how your work or team environment reads through each of the four areas. The lens with the lowest score is where the environment is under the most strain, and the Compass focuses your recommendations across the following items:
- the leadership mode suited to those conditions
- the language to use
- interventions to begin with
- a picture of the environment before and after
Reading the environment through all four lenses before acting means the leadership response goes where it is most needed, rather than where the problem is most visible.
Ready to see where you stand?
Complete the diagnostic and receive your results immediately.
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