PeopleCap Online Growth Assessment

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* 1. Where should we send the results of your Growth Assessment?

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* 2. Which answer best describes your company's primary focus at this stage?

Our primary focus is on proving out our product, market, or business model.

Our product, market, or business model is proven. Our primary focus is on formalizing and standardizing our internal operations and achieving revenue goals.

Our internal operations are largely built out and running smoothly. Our primary focus is on growing market share.

Our company predictably meets its financial targets and our primary focus has shifted to exploring enterprise level partnerships and inorganic growth opportunities.

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* 3. Which answer best describes your company's goal setting?

We have no formal goal setting process or strategic planning process.

We have recently adopted a goal setting framework (KPIs, OKRs, Traction etc.) or strategic planning process at the corporate level and/or department level.

We have - and regularly utilize - a goal setting framework (KPIs, OKRs, Traction, etc.) and strategic planning process at the corporate, department, and individual level.

We have a goal setting framework (KPIs, OKRs, Traction, etc.) and strategic planning process at the corporate, department, and individual level that yields a detailed strategic plan that includes budgets, reliable forecasts, data-driven metrics.

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* 4. Which best describes your company's culture?

Our culture is largely a reflection of the founder's personality and priorities.

Our culture has moved beyond the founder. We have defined our core values and core identity.

Our culture is well defined and reinforced through processes like hiring, talent development, performance management, and compensation.

Our culture is well defined and reinforced through processes like hiring, talent development, performance management and compensation, AND we routinely evaluate strategic opportunities through a cultural lens and pass on those that do not align with out culture.

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* 5. What best describes accountability in your organization?

Loyalty is valued over accountability. We rarely terminate people for poor performance.

Individuals are increasingly held accountable for their performance. We are willing to terminate poor performers.

Individuals are regularly held accountable for their performance AND managers are regularly held accountable for their team's performance. We routinely terminate poor performers.

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* 6. Which of the following best describes your company's CEO?

Our CEO is a founder and entrepreneur actively involved in all aspects of the business.

Our CEO is a player/coach who leads a primary function of the business (Sales, Product, Operations, etc.) in addition to performing the CEO duties.

Our CEO is primarily focused on managing/leading the leadership team and the business strategy. The CEO is still involved in day-to-day decisions.

Our CEO is almost completely out of the day-to-day operations and mostly focuses on strategic opportunities (inorganic growth, shareholder communication, managing the board, etc.)

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* 7. Which of the following best describes your company's leadership?

Leaders wear many hats and their roles tend to shift to address needs. No formally defined leadership team exists.

A defined leadership team exists in the form a collection of individuals focused on leading/managing a specific function (Sales, Product, Operations, etc.).

A defined leadership team exists and its members are focused both on the overall strategy of the business and the day-to-day operations of their function.

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* 8. Which best describes your company's talent?

Talent is convenient, largely sourced, hired, and managed by our founder. Training happens by osmosis.

We are adding more people to the team, however, recruiting and training people up to the level of productivity are limiting factors to our growth.

Processes, practices, and capacity exist to recruit, hire, and train talent and get them up to productivity quickly. The responsibility primarily falls on a recruiting team and hiring managers.

Our organization is a "self replicating talent machine" with processes, practices, and capacity to recruit, hire, and train talent and get them up to productivity quickly. Leadership and talent pipelines exist and we are able to replace people quickly without interruption in our productivity. The entire organization is engaged in recruiting/hiring/training new hires.

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* 9. Which best describes your middle managers?

We don't have middles managers because we are too small.

As we have grown, we have mostly promoted solid individual contributors to be managers. We do not have formal management training.

We fill managers roles by both promoting within and hiring from the outside. We have a formal training program for managers to build their people management skills.

As an organization, we have proven processes in place to develop our middle managers (training, mentoring, coaching, etc,). We have identified managers as successors to all of our executive leadership roles.

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* 10. Which best describes your company's processes?

Our processes are mostly ad hoc and manual processes.

We are in the process of establishing formalized, documented processes.

Repeatable processes are in place supported by systems, tools, and automation.

Our repeatable processes are often mined for efficiencies, continuous improvement.

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* 11. Which best describes your company's communication?

Communication is informal, often direct from our founder. Everyone is in-the-know because of the proximity of the small team.

Communication is largely top down and employee feedback is solicited episodically.

Multiple communications protocols, channels, and systems exist. Employee feedback is regularly solicited and valued.

A comprehensive and strategic internal communications function exists serving a larger and more distributed workforce. Feedback loops provide data that regularly drives change.

PeopleCap Online Growth Assessment

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* 1. Where should we send the results of your Growth Assessment?

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* 2. Which answer best describes your company's primary focus at this stage?

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* 3. Which answer best describes your company's goal setting?

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* 4. Which best describes your company's culture?

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* 5. What best describes accountability in your organization?

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* 6. Which of the following best describes your company's CEO?

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* 7. Which of the following best describes your company's leadership?

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* 8. Which best describes your company's talent?

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* 9. Which best describes your middle managers?

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* 10. Which best describes your company's processes?

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* 11. Which best describes your company's communication?

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* 12. Currently, what is your biggest pain point as it relates to people, culture, and leadership?