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Change and Innovation Assessment
Directions
This assessment contains eighteen questions about you and your
organization's desired future purposes,
current practices, and current personal approach toward
work.
Your Team or Unit. While taking this section of the assessment
think about the team (or organizational unit)
that you lead or belong to right now.
Directions. The six questions below ask about h o w y o u d e f
i n e s u c ce ss f o r y o u r t e am i n t h e f u t u r e .
What results or outcomes does your team need to achieve in the
future to help the company realize its
strategy? Under each question, r ank t he f our s t at em ent s
( r ec ogni z i ng t hey ar e al l i m por t ant ) ac c or di
ng
t o t he or der of i m por t anc e nec es s ar y f or y our uni
t t o s uc c eed in the future. That is, which statement ismost
like your team's needed future outcomes? Assign 1, 2, 3, or 4 to
the statements A, B, C, and D
depending on w hich one w ill have the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th
priority for your t eam in the future. Assign 1 if t he
statement is most like your team's needed future and 4 if the
statement is least like your team's needed
future. We hav e y ou r ank t he opt i ons bec aus e l eader s
hi p i s about m ak i ng di f f i c ul t dec i s i ons .
Remember that for each of the six questions, statements A, B, C,
and D must be assigned a 1, 2, 3 or
4. No statement may be assigned the same number as another
statement (forced rank).
Section 1 -- Desired Purposes (Outcomes, or the value your
organization
intends to create)
1. My team (or unit) needs to define success as . . .
Future *
A. excelling in retaining our best employees.
B. excelling in developing unique products or services.
C. excelling in reducing time to market of
products/services.
D. excelling in our percent of on-time deliveries.
2. My team (or unit) needs to define success as . . .
Future *
A. excelling in our employee morale.
B. excelling in the number of new sources of revenue
created.
C. excelling in the amount of cash we have on hand (cash
flow).
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D. excelling in internal cost savings.
3. My team (or unit) needs to define success as . . .
Future *
A. excelling in the number of top quality people we have
hired.
B. excelling in the return on investment from our
innovations.
C. excelling in profitability (return on assets).
D. excelling in improving on error rates.
4. My team (or unit) needs to define success as . . .
Future *
A. excelling in the development of teams.
B. excelling in obtaining revenues from new products or
services.
C. excelling in increasing shareholder value (EVA).
D. excelling in our reduction in redundancy and waste.
5. My team (or unit) needs to define success as . . .
Future *
A. excelling in getting a return on investment from our training
and development of employees.
B. excelling in expanding the diversity of products and
services.
C. excelling in increasing our stock price.
D. excelling in reducing rate of defects.
6. My team (or unit) needs to define success as . . .
Future *
A. excelling in reducing grievances and complaints from
employees.
B. excelling in increasing the number of products and services
launched.
C. excelling in our overall performance ranking in the
industry.
D. excelling in quality improvement.
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