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Leadership Shared Understanding Assessment™


Leadership Shared Understanding Assessment™

This assessment helps identify how well shared understanding exists throughout your organization.

Answer based on your current experience. There are no right or wrong answers.

Understanding

These questions explore how well goals, priorities, and the reasons behind organizational decisions are understood throughout the organization.

People throughout the organization understand our most important goals. *
Employees understand why major initiatives are launched. *
People can clearly explain organizational priorities. *
Departments generally share the same understanding of success. *

Communication

These questions explore how clearly and consistently information is communicated throughout the organization.

Important information is communicated clearly. *
Messages remain consistent across leadership levels. *
Employees receive enough context to understand decisions. *
Communication reduces confusion rather than creating it. *

Participation

These questions explore how actively employees contribute to improvement and problem solving.
Employees are encouraged to contribute improvement ideas. *
People feel comfortable raising problems. *
Teams actively participate in improvement efforts. *
Employees believe their input matters. *

Ownership

These questions explore the degree to which people feel responsible for improving processes and achieving results.
People take responsibility for improving their work. *
Employees approach problems as shared challenges. *
Teams work together to solve issues. *
People feel connected to organizational success. *

Improvement Capability

These questions explore how well improvement principles and process thinking are understood.
Employees understand how work flows across processes. *
People look for root causes instead of blame. *
Improvement methods are understood by most employees. *
Improvement efforts are sustained over time. *

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