An invitation to a more thoughtful assessment

Posted on by Mike Burrows

All the organisational scopes you identify with

Before you begin, think about all the organisational scopes you identify with. Formally-recognised or otherwise, your scopes bring together people, their value-creating work, and a sense of shared identity. Yours might include:

  • Teams, teams-of-teams, or bigger
  • Scopes smaller than teams
  • Cross-cutting scopes that intersect with multiple other scopes

Next, two kinds of “healthy and productive”:

  1. Thinking about your scopes individually, how healthy and productive would you say they are?
  2. How healthy and productive would you say are the relationships between scopes?

To the assessment itself:

  • As you score each assessment prompt, try to choose a point on our four-point scale that’s representative of all of your scopes
  • Where that’s hard to do authentically, you can restrict yourself to the scope or scopes with which you identify you most strongly
  • Don’t worry about being inconsistent – ranges of experience, opinion, and perspective are just as interesting as consensus, and our process will make good use of both

That’s quite a change from “Choose a scope and stick to it”! Given its length, I don’t know that I would use it frequently outside the Adaptive Organisation assessment, but for that one, it’s more in keeping with the module of the same name’s “Start where you are, everywhere all at once” approach.

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