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Executive Team Assessment

A diagnostic of whether the executive team operates as an enterprise leadership unit rather than a collection of functional leaders.

Assessment architecture

What can be measured.

The precise evidence model depends on whether the buyer selects the standard instrument or a bespoke enterprise version.

Role clarity

Open indicators, evidence & examples
  • Questions designed to test the current maturity of role clarity
  • Observable operating practices and evidence connected to role clarity
  • Potential gap between stated policy and real executive behaviour
  • Risk signals, constraints and strengths to preserve
  • Actions that could move the organisation to the next maturity level

Decision rights

Open indicators, evidence & examples
  • Questions designed to test the current maturity of decision rights
  • Observable operating practices and evidence connected to decision rights
  • Potential gap between stated policy and real executive behaviour
  • Risk signals, constraints and strengths to preserve
  • Actions that could move the organisation to the next maturity level

Cross-functional execution

Open indicators, evidence & examples
  • Questions designed to test the current maturity of cross-functional execution
  • Observable operating practices and evidence connected to cross-functional execution
  • Potential gap between stated policy and real executive behaviour
  • Risk signals, constraints and strengths to preserve
  • Actions that could move the organisation to the next maturity level

Meeting quality

Open indicators, evidence & examples
  • Questions designed to test the current maturity of meeting quality
  • Observable operating practices and evidence connected to meeting quality
  • Potential gap between stated policy and real executive behaviour
  • Risk signals, constraints and strengths to preserve
  • Actions that could move the organisation to the next maturity level

Accountability

Open indicators, evidence & examples
  • Questions designed to test the current maturity of accountability
  • Observable operating practices and evidence connected to accountability
  • Potential gap between stated policy and real executive behaviour
  • Risk signals, constraints and strengths to preserve
  • Actions that could move the organisation to the next maturity level

Trust and challenge

Open indicators, evidence & examples
  • Questions designed to test the current maturity of trust and challenge
  • Observable operating practices and evidence connected to trust and challenge
  • Potential gap between stated policy and real executive behaviour
  • Risk signals, constraints and strengths to preserve
  • Actions that could move the organisation to the next maturity level

Performance management

Open indicators, evidence & examples
  • Questions designed to test the current maturity of performance management
  • Observable operating practices and evidence connected to performance management
  • Potential gap between stated policy and real executive behaviour
  • Risk signals, constraints and strengths to preserve
  • Actions that could move the organisation to the next maturity level

Succession depth

Open indicators, evidence & examples
  • Questions designed to test the current maturity of succession depth
  • Observable operating practices and evidence connected to succession depth
  • Potential gap between stated policy and real executive behaviour
  • Risk signals, constraints and strengths to preserve
  • Actions that could move the organisation to the next maturity level
Evidence options

Choose the depth of the assessment.

Standard diagnostic

Open what is included
  • Structured questionnaire
  • Automated/structured scorecard
  • Priority findings
  • Executive debrief option

Evidence-enhanced

Open what is included
  • Questionnaire plus selected documents
  • Executive interviews
  • Cross-checking of reported practices
  • Detailed recommendations

Enterprise / multi-rater

Open what is included
  • Multiple stakeholder groups
  • Role, region or cohort segmentation
  • Custom scoring model
  • Executive-sponsor reporting
  • Reassessment dashboard
Outputs

From score to intervention.

Executive scorecard

Open deliverables
  • Dimension scores
  • Strengths and constraints
  • Priority risks
  • Benchmark context where valid

Action architecture

Open deliverables
  • Top priority interventions
  • 90-day actions
  • Owners and milestones
  • Recommended CEOBAL learning/advisory pathway

Reassessment

Open deliverables
  • 3-, 6- or 12-month repeat
  • Progress comparison
  • New constraints
  • Renewal or next-stage plan
Scoping/build fee: the standard instrument can use standard pricing. Bespoke questions, interviews, custom scoring, company-specific benchmarks, multi-cohort dashboards, new report formats, integrations or enterprise rollout require additional paid discovery, design and build work.
Assessment process

How an engagement can run.

Scope

Confirm population, decisions to inform, evidence depth, confidentiality and outputs.

Configure

Use the standard instrument or define paid bespoke questions/scoring.

Collect

Gather questionnaire, interview, document and data inputs as agreed.

Analyse

Identify patterns, maturity, constraints, strengths and material gaps.

Debrief

Run an executive or board-level findings session focused on decisions.

Intervene

Use programmes, workshops, advisory or operating changes to address gaps.

Reassess

Repeat later to measure progress and create an evidence-based renewal cycle.

Can CEOBAL build a company-specific version?

Yes. That work begins with a paid scoping phase. Custom questions, scoring logic, interview frameworks, dashboards and reporting are treated as bespoke intellectual-property and production work.

Is the assessment a psychological or clinical test?

No. CEOBAL Academy assessments are positioned as executive, leadership and operating-system diagnostics. They should not be represented as clinical, medical or regulated psychometric instruments unless a properly qualified instrument/provider is separately engaged.

Can results be used for executive development?

Yes. The strongest use is baseline → targeted intervention → reassessment, with privacy, role permissions and appropriate interpretation controls.

Can a board or enterprise commission this?

Yes. Enterprise scope can include multiple cohorts, executive sponsor reporting and recurring reassessment, subject to data-protection and confidentiality requirements.

Commercial scope

Commission Executive Team Assessment.

Choose a standard assessment or ask CEOBAL to scope a deeper evidence-based enterprise version.

Request scope & pricing