Growth Diagnostic
Vision & Team Alignment
Growth Diagnostic VISION & TEAM ALIGNMENT
Do you have a formal Vivid Vision™?
(a 3-4 page document that outlines a detailed depiction of what your company will look like & act like three years from now) *
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Do you know how to share the Vivid Vision™ with:
Employees
Potential Employees
Customers
Suppliers / Lawyer / Accountant
Mass Media
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Do you have a 'Can You Imagine Wall"
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Do you know how to review the Vivid Vision™ at yearly and quarterly retreats?
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Do you review sections of the Vivid Vision™ at all meetings?
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Do you have annual goals for: Revenue, Profit, Customer Satisfaction & Employee Satisfaction?
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Do you have a work back plan in place for each of your company's annual goals and projects?
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Have you done a SWOT on your company & each business area this quarter?
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Are all goals and projects "SMART" (shared, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time based)
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Do all goals have one of these three symbols in them: #, $, %
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Do you have a sign off system in place to approve and initiate new company projects?
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Are clear boundaries in place for the amount of debt you will take on, number of hours you will work, number of days you will travel, amount of equity you will give up, etc.
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Does your office have a world-class work space (physical environment)?
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Is your office an open concept?
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Do you walls speak to the culture (filled with mantras, logos, and press coverage)?
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Are your core values on the wall in LARGE font for all to see?
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Do you have open channels of communication? Top down, bottom up, laterally?
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Do you allow employees to work where and when ever they want, so long as they deliver results?
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Do you give your employees a five week PAID vacation?
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Do your employees each do a bucket list? Do you help them achieve them?
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Do you work equally as hard at helping the wrong people out of your company as you do at bringing the right ones in?
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Do you have a carefully laid out recruiting process?
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Do you know how to find proof of past performance in job candidates?
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Do you know what behavioral traits to interview for in new employees?
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Can your team define each of the traits you interview for?
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Does your team know how to probe enough to find enough proof to rate candidates?
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Do you have a virtual bench?
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Do you have systems in place to race to the conflict?
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Do you have systems in place to coach each of your direct reports weekly?
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Are you using the most current technology available to enhance communication?
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Do you know the highest impact types of meetings to hold daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly?
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Do all of your meetings have tight agendas?
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Are you getting high impact results from all of your meetings?
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Do you really know how to run highly effective meetings?
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Have you figured out how to start all meetings on time?
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Do you know how to select & truly focus on a target market? Are you sure?
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Are you taking advantage of contra, run of schedule, pre-emptable and other advertising buys?
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Are you seeing my ads more than you're seeing your own? Curious?
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Do you have a focused PR strategy in place?
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Do industry trade journals interview you?
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Do you know how to craft great angles?
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Do you know which media outlets to pitch?
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Do you know what to say to the Media?
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Do you have specific people who 'own' each metric or KPI that your company measures?
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Do you know how often you should review the data?
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Do you have a 5/15 Reporting System in place?
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Does your Tech team look for free solutions before they buy?
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Does your Tech team look to buy cheaply before they build?
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Are you overwhelmed with technology?
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Are you on the bleeding edge of all the free tech apps you can be using?
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Are all your managers using laptops?
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Are all your managers using & trained to use iPhones?
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Do you have ROI's in place for Social Media?
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Do you have a system in place to make Blogging easy or do you sit down to write one at a time?
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Are you selling your products or services online?
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Are you & your team using remote workforces to do tasks & projects at 20% of the normal cost?
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Are you leveraging Gen Y as mentors?
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Do you have systems in place to fire your bottom customers?
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Do you have systems in place to focus on your TOP 10% of customers?
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Do you know the top employees who work for your competitors?
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Do you have systems in place to rebuild your team's confidence weekly?
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Do you have Stop Doing lists?
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Do you know the defined stages of the entrepreneurial roller coaster?
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Do employees know why the CEO is so up & down emotionally?
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Do the CEO's spouse & kids know why they are so up & down emotionally?
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Depending on where you are on the roller coaster, do you know what to focus on?
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Do you take weekly Focus Days?
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Do you get out of the office for a full week every six months to think & work on the business?
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Do you have systems in place to compress time?
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Do you have systems in place for your employees to only work in email for 1 hour a day?
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Do you have a Board of Advisors?
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Does your board possess the skills needed to help you grow?
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Does your board have the same vision of the future for your company that you have?
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Do you have strong prep packages for each board meeting sent out in advance?
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Are your board meetings effective?
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Do you have good work and personal life balance?
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Are you spending enough quality time with friends & family?
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Do you spend time with people who inspire you?