Under 5 minutes · 8 Questions · Two Perspectives · 5 Insights

How well do your people actually collaborate across the organization?

See how your team compares to the rest of the organization.

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What you see in four minutes Sample result
52 Collaboration Score, out of 100
Escalation-runGuardedTransactionalDependableSelf-correcting

Departments hand work to each other and consider their part done. Nobody owns what happens between the handoff and the result.

Behavior
4.6 / 10
Mindset
6.2 / 10

What you get when you finish

Four views of where and why people are not collaborating.

What's driving it

Mindset ↑Behavior →

People want to collaborate, but the ways of working between departments don't support them.

Your department vs. the organization

In Operations68
Across the organization52
Gap 16Strong department, weaker organization

Most of the cost lives between departments, not inside yours.

Eight dimensions, weakest first

Handoffs arrive complete
3.8
Finished work defined before handoff
4.1
Disagreements settled without escalation
4.5
Capacity limits taken at face value
5.7
Delivery dates between departments are met
5.9
Delays treated as a shared problem
6.0
Good faith assumed when something is missed
6.4
Problems raised early without penalty
6.8
BehaviorMindsetStrongestWeakest

Your three moves

1
START HERE · TWO SESSIONS
Agree on what finished looks like at your worst handoff
2
THEN · ONE QUARTER
Name an owner for disagreements that keep coming back
3
LATER · MONTHS
Build managers who can hold the agreement

Sample data for illustration. Your result is built from your own answers.

Find out which of five states you're in.

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What does this measure?

It measures how well people in different departments actually work together: whether they agree on what finished work looks like before it is handed over, deliver it complete, settle disagreements between themselves, keep the dates they promise each other, and trust each other when something goes wrong. You get a score for collaboration within your own department and across the organization, with behavior (what people do) and mindset (what people believe) scored separately. That split matters, because willing people with weak processes need a very different fix from good processes with low trust. In under five minutes you will know which one you have and what to do first.

What counts as a good score?

There's no published norm, and we won't invent one. Your score places you in one of five states: self-correcting, dependable, transactional, guarded or escalation-run. When enough assessments are in to build a real benchmark, we'll publish it with the sample size next to it.

How is this built?

It's a practitioner diagnostic from Kern and Partners. It hasn't been through reliability or validity testing and isn't normed against a population. It's built to start a conversation between functions, not to certify anything.

Question 1 of 8 Behavior

In my function
Across the organization