TheTruNorth Strategic Gap Diagnostic

A leadership self-assessment

What is getting in the way of your organisation's next stage of growth?

Fifteen statements. The result identifies the gap most likely to be weakening direction, alignment, market position or organisational action — and, where the answers point to it, the difference between the visible problem and its cause.

Direction
Is the organisation clear about where it is going?
Alignment
Are leaders deciding from the same direction?
Positioning
Does the market understand why this business should be chosen?
Narrative
Can the organisation explain its direction convincingly?
Translation
Do decisions and behaviour reinforce the intended direction?

About six minutes. No contact details required to see your result.
These statements are drawn from the diagnostic TheTruNorth runs with leadership teams.

Before you begin

Two quick things, so your answers can be read in context.

Your responses are anonymous. They come to TheTruNorth, not to your organisation. No individual response is shared with anyone — including your chief executive — and no finding is ever reported for a group of fewer than three people. No name or email address is collected.

Please add your organisation and role before beginning.

About six minutes.

One last thing

What is the one issue leadership has discussed repeatedly but not yet resolved?

Answers to this question are read in aggregate and never quoted individually.

Primary gap

How the five areas compared

Also worth attention

One important caveat

This reflects one perspective. In a facilitated diagnostic the same statements go to eight to twelve leaders — and the variance between their answers is usually more revealing than any single score.

Would your leadership team have answered these the same way you did?

Put it to your leadership team

See where your team's answers diverge

Generate an anonymous link for your leadership group. Responses come to TheTruNorth only — no individual answer is shared with you or anyone else, and no finding is reported for a group of fewer than three. You will receive one combined reading, including where your own view differs from your team's.

Send this to your leadership group. Hold your own result until everyone has responded — the comparison between your reading and theirs is the most useful part of the exercise.

Or start with a conversation

The Direction Review — three weeks

Two ways to take this further are below.

Two ways to take this further

Pavan reads every response to the final question personally. Ask for a written reading and he replies with a note on your primary gap and what usually sits behind it. Ask for a conversation and he will be in touch to arrange a time.

A conversation is usually about half an hour. Nothing to prepare — bring the result.
Or write directly: pavan.kumar@thetrunorth.in

Thank you — Pavan will be in touch.

Recorded

Thank you — your response is in.

It has been submitted anonymously and will be read only alongside your colleagues'.

Individual results are not produced, for a reason. What one person can see from one seat is a partial view — and a confident-looking score against it would be misleading. The finding in this exercise is the comparison: where the leadership group's answers converge, and where they diverge without anyone having noticed.

The combined reading is prepared once every response is in. No individual answer is shared with anyone, including your chief executive.

Administered by TheTruNorth · pavan.kumar@thetrunorth.in