Where should I send your scores?
They are on screen at the end, and a copy follows you into your inbox.
The last time you set a direction that mattered, how many people were in the room?
How many people have to act on it?
How many management layers sit between you and the last person who has to act on it?
Afterwards, did anybody ask people what they came away with?
What came back?
Since that event, how many times have you explained the same thing again?
Anything else you would like me to know?
Take the first step yourself, tomorrow.
Pick two people who were not in the room. Ask them one question about it.
What have they heard, in their own words?
Then read what comes back against what you actually meant them to take from it.
Do not ask whether they understood. That asks somebody to grade themselves in front of their employer, and almost everyone says yes.
What the three scores mean
Exposure Risk is the size of the job. How many people have to act on it, how many layers sit between you and the last one. Not something you chose, and not something you fix by trying harder.
Activity Risk is whether anyone has actually checked. This is the one you can change, and it is what checking is for.
Alignment Cost is what it is already costing you. How many times you have had to say it again.
Take the first step yourself, tomorrow.
Pick two people who were not in the room. Ask them one question about it.
What have they heard, in their own words?
Then read what comes back against what you actually meant them to take from it.
Do not ask whether they understood. That asks somebody to grade themselves in front of their employer, and almost everyone says yes.