FranklySpeaking

The alignment check

Ten questions. Four minutes.

Every business leans on five defences. This scores each one from your answers, then draws where your gaps are and whether they line up.

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Start the check

01 / Where this sits

Four steps. You are on the first one.

You do not have to do all four. If you already know you have a problem, start at step three. If you are not sure, four minutes here costs you nothing.

Step 01 · 4 minutes

Alignment check

Ten questions, on your own, on screen. Ends with a drawing of where your gaps line up.

You are here Take the check Step 02 · 30 minutes

A call with Frank

About you and the decision in front of you. Ends with a recommendation, not a proposal.

Book the 30 minutes Step 03 · 90 minutes

Preliminary report

About your business, with whoever would sponsor the work. Ends with a written position.

Book the 90 minutes Step 04 · 12–16 weeks

The investigation

The full inquiry and the intervention that closes it. From US$35,000.

How it runs

The check reads one person on one day, so it is an indication rather than a finding. A finding needs evidence from more than one source, and that is what steps three and four are for.

02 / The questions

Score each one against the last six months.

Click a number on the scale. 1 means this is not us. 5 means this is us. The next question appears on its own.

Two people on your executive team would describe the strategy differently.
Not usThat is us
Decisions reach the front line without the reasoning attached.
Not usThat is us
The real conversation happens before the meeting rather than in it.
Not usThat is us
When a target is missed, the conversation reaches a person before it reaches a cause.
Not usThat is us
Bad news travels up more slowly than good news.
Not usThat is us
A junior person would hesitate to contradict a senior one in a meeting.
Not usThat is us
You have made the same structural change more than twice.
Not usThat is us
Someone who used to raise difficult points has gone quiet.
Not usThat is us
Meetings end without a named owner and a date.
Not usThat is us
What gets funded after a decision does not match what was decided.
Not usThat is us

03 / Your result

Your drawing appears here once all 10 are answered.

One weak defence on its own is survivable. What matters is whether the gaps line up, because that is the path with nothing left to stop it.

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