BUSINESS & PERSONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS
Free Business & Personal Diagnostic Tools
Diagnostics are straightforward instruments that can help you obtain valuable insights into your personal management style or business.
By answering a set of questions, the Diagnostic tool analyses your responses and generates suggestions. Your answers and information are kept confidential between you and Russell Cummings, Coach.
We have grouped the Diagnostic Tests into two (2) categories:
BUSINESS DIAGNOSTICS
A business diagnosis is a process that analyses a company to identify areas for improvement. It looks at all aspects of the industry, including management, finance, operations, marketing, and sales.
PERSONAL DIAGNOSTICS
Gain insights on your leadership style and your overall business performance with these free business diagnostics powered by Mindshop.
Business Diagnostics
Growth and Profit
Are you struggling to prioritise your business issues and opportunities? Do you need clarification on which strategies will accelerate the growth and profit of your business?
Marketing Diagnostic
Culture
Family Business
Our work has identified 10 key factors that successful family business excel in. Answering the 30 questions in this Family Business Diagnostic will help you identify your top 3 strengths and weaknesses.
Innovation
Innovation is a critical attribute for any business to embrace in order to keep their operations as well as their products / services at the cutting edge.
Survival
In difficult economic times where do you as a leader need to focus your energies to ensure you can survive and navigate the business through as successfully as possible?
Sales
A critical capability for any business is the ability to sell their products/services effectively. Where can your improve your sales skills?
Business Scale Up
Scaling up a business is often easier said than done especially in unpredictable and challenging market environments. Scaling up involves accelerating growth but also boosting business value through a variety of factors.
Referral Ready
Complete these 22 questions (it should only take you 4 minutes) to identify from 8 factors the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve your referral readiness.
Change Success
Research tells us there is only a 30% probability your change initiative will succeed. This is because most business people adopt a ‘trial and error’ approach to change incurring a high cost in terms of lost time, reduced confidence, wasted money and poor resource utilisation.
Profit/Efficiency
Complete these 24 questions (it should only take you 5 minutes) to identify from 10 factors the top 3 areas that are working well and top 3 areas you need to work on to improve your level of profit/efficiency in the business.
Performance Enhancement
Performance management is a critical attribute for any business to embrace in order to keep their operations as well as their products / services at the cutting edge.
10 Dysfunctions of a Professional Service Firm
It’s challenging running a professional service firm. On top of the unrelenting stream of work, there are constant legislative changes, capacity issues due to problems attracting and retaining quality staff, new technology to navigate, new service lines to implement and finding the time to build capabilities to stay ahead of the competition.
Australia’s Workforce Crisis
Assess your business’s readiness to tackle the Australia Workforce Crisis by evaluating key factors and indicating your level of agreement with each statement on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree).
Personal Diagnostics
Leadership
Regardless of whether we run a business, manage or are part of a team we all lead in some way. But leadership styles vary greatly, are you a visionary, a great implementer, strategic thinker or team coach? What are the fundamental attributes that set great leaders apart?
Change Success Personal
Welcome to the Change Success Personal Diagnostic. Research tells us there is only a 30% probability your personal or business change initiative will succeed.
Coaching Ability Diagnostic
As leaders it’s important to have the capabilities to coach and support your teams. Where should you focus your time to build new skills to improve your coaching ability?
Life Balance Diagnostic
Having a balanced life is not about being perfect in all areas. It is about ensuring that any emphasis that may be put into one or more areas of your life is not causing an in-balance and issues in other areas.
Personal Resilience Diagnostic
Having good personal resilience is about how well you bounce back from adversity in your personal or business life. How can you improve your own levels of resilience?
Time and Priority Management
Time and priority management is the process of managing the choices we make regarding the things we do within the time available such that we can maximise the fulfillment and results we achieve.
Emotional Intelligence Diagnostic
It’s about being in touch with one’s self, knowing one’s self, knowing how to connect with others and being aware of one’s impact on others. These are all key skills for a leader and are vital for both personal and professional success.
Listening Diagnostic
Listening is one of those critical skills that are absolutely mandatory for leaders to both have and to be able to effectively demonstrate. Having two ears and hearing is not the same as actively listening. Poor listening skills too is the one area that causes the most conflict in communication.
