The Practice
01 — Team Assessment
The diagnostic instrument.
The leadership team’s diagnostic. Each member completes a tailored questionnaire mapping where they believe the organization sits. The results reveal where the team aligns — and where it doesn’t.
What it is
A structured diagnostic — not a survey, not a culture quiz.
The Team Assessment maps your leadership team’s actual positioning across the spectrums that define your organization — identity, standards, guest promise, growth model. Each member answers independently. No conferring, no group-think. The instrument is tailored to your sector and mandate before it ships.
What comes back is not an engagement score. It is a heat map of agreement and divergence: where your team is aligned, where it is not, and — critically — where people assume they agree but don’t.
The Assessment exists to make the invisible visible. Most leadership teams have never seen their disagreements laid out in a single document. This is that document.
What you leave with
Two artifacts that name what the team has been assuming.
Alignment Report
A written diagnostic mapping each spectrum, each leader’s position, and the fault lines between them. Not a score — a map. The report names what the team agrees on, what it doesn’t, and where the cost of that disagreement is highest.
Online Consultation
A 30-minutes call with Alex, founder of The Decided Org, to go over your results. Includes recommendation on the spectrums that should anchor the organization, and the potential decisions the team is currently deferring because of the misalignment the Assessment surfaced.
Who it’s for
The Assessment is the entry point. It works for any team ready to find out where it actually stands.
- ✓Leadership teams of 6 or more — the instrument needs enough participants to reveal meaningful patterns.
- ✓Organizations where the product is the people — where brand standards and operational reality have to coexist.
- ✓No pre-work required — the Assessment is the pre-work for everything else.
- ✓Teams considering the Workshop but unsure whether the fault lines are clear enough to workshop directly.
- ✓Boards or ownership groups preparing for a strategic review, a leadership transition, or a capital decision.
- ✓Multi-site operators who suspect standards are interpreted differently across locations.
If your team is below six, the Self Assessment is a better starting point — it gives you an individual read on drift before committing the team.
Pricing & terms
Simple, per-seat pricing. No hidden fees.
- Fee
- $88 per seat. Minimum 6 participants.
- Confidentiality
- Individual responses are never shared. The Alignment Report presents patterns, not attributions.
- Waiver
- If you proceed to the Workshop within three months, the Assessment fee is credited against the Workshop engagement.
- Debrief
- Included — a 30-minute call with Alex to walk through the report and discuss implications.
Questions
Before you book the conversation.
How is this different from an employee engagement survey?
Engagement surveys measure how people feel. The Team Assessment measures what people believe— specifically, where they think the organization sits on the spectrums that define its identity. It is not about satisfaction. It is about agreement.
Can we do it with fewer than six people?
Below six, the data doesn’t reveal patterns reliably. For smaller teams, the Self Assessment gives each leader an individual read, and a call can help determine whether the Audit is a better entry point than the team-wide instrument.
Are individual responses shared with the rest of the team?
Never. The Alignment Report presents patterns and divergence across the group. No individual is named or identifiable. Confidentiality is what makes the data honest.
What if the results show we’re already aligned?
Then you have evidence of something most teams only assume. The report becomes a baseline — useful for onboarding new leaders, pressure-testing future decisions, and detecting drift over time.
Around the Assessment
Each engagement leads to the next.
Next Step
Talk to Alex.
A 30-minute call is the right next step. We’ll find out whether the Team Assessment is the right move for your team — and if it isn’t, which engagement is.
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