General management assessments compared with best practices

Best Practices and evaluations

General management best practice models

This section lists all the best practice models about General management.

This knowledge base gives you immediate access to management best practices by industry and function.
They have been observed worldwide in Operational Excellence projects and modelled by expert consultants.

Discover best practices or use them to evaluate an organisation and its management thanks to their format in a practice-based evaluation questionnaire.

The higher the levels are (Green to black) the greater the expertise and the more detailed the practices.

General management

9 questionnaires

Operational Excellence maturity

Quickly assess the maturity of your organisation's "Operational Excellence" on six areas

Length: 15 - 20 mn / 18 questions

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Who is this assessment for

CEO, Managing Director, Business Unit Director, Subsidiary Director
Internal consultants (eg continuous improvement team) or external consultants

Scope : general organisational and managerial practices
Industries: any type of industry

Assessement on major company areas of management : Strategy, Performance management, Improvement actions, Process management, Organisation and Employee engagement
Results presented on a 5 level maturity matrix

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Performance steering system and style

Perform an in-depth detailed assessment of your organisation performance management system and style

Length: 45 - 90 mn / 67 questions

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Who is this assessment for:

CEO, COO, company senior managers, site directors and Operational managers as well as Financial director
Internal or external consultants.

Scope: General management focused on Governance - PDCA

Industries: Organisations larger than 30 people in all industries

Focus on performance management : Vision and objective setting, KPI’s, action taking, decision making and priorities setting, data reporting and Root cause analysis, improvement plans
Focus on management style : engagement, discussion, autonomy, directive

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Performance management maturity

Quickly assess the maturity of your organisation's peformance managament practices

Length: 15 - 20 mn / 14 questions

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Who is this service for

CEO, Managing Director, Business Unit Director, subsidiary Director, functional director, site director
Internal consultants (eg continuous improvement team) or external consultants

Scope : performance management practices (KPIs, meetings, decisions, actions...)
Industries: any type of industry

Key performance management practices are evaluated :

Objectives, KPIs, dashboards and data collection
Management meeting effectiveness
Visual management and management routines

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Employee engagement maturity

Quickly assess the maturity of your organisation to manage, develop and motivate people

Length: 15 - 20 mn / 19 questions

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Focus

Who is this evaluation for

CEO, Managing Director, Business Unit Director, subsidiary Director, HR director, functional director, site director
Internal consultants (eg continuous improvement team) or external consultants

Scope : employee management and motivation (Leadership, training, rewards...)
Industries: any type of industry

Assessment of people engagement key practices on:

Being at the heart of the organisation
Leadership and behaviours
Feeling as part of one team
People development and recognition

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Operational Excellence - 100 criteria

Assess in detail your Operational Excellence level - Is your company able to execute its Strategy ?

Length: 60 - 90 mn / 100 questions

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Who is this assessment for:

CEO, COO, company senior managers, site directors and Operational managers as well as Financial director
Internal consultants (eg continuous improvement team) or external consultants.

Scope: General management

Industries: Organisations larger than 30 people in all industries

Assess your practices maturity level on 6 company key areas: Strategy, Performance management, Organisation, Processes, Improvement and Employee engagement

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Cross-functional relationships

Evaluate the effectiveness of cross-functional relationships within your organization

Length: 10 - 20 mn / 3 - 7 criteria

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For all leaders and managers of your organization (functions, services, departments, project teams...)

Scope: organisation effectiveness, general management
Industries: all industries

Effectiveness of the cross-functional relationships between the entities of your organization.
Measuring their performance on 7 criteria: roles and expectations, proactivity, deadlines & punctuality, quality, factual data, relational and performance measurement

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Digital maturity

Quickly assess the digital maturity level of your organisation

Length: 15 - 30 mn / 24 - 30 questions

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Focus

Who is this evaluation for

CEO, Managing Director, Business Unit Director, Subsidiary Director, CTO / CIO
Internal consultants (eg continuous improvement team) or external consultants willing to assess their (client) organisation

Scope : Digital enablement of all functions
Industries: any type of industry

Practices evaluated on 6 core company areas:

Digital strategy
Client Relationship
Operations
Competences and organisation
Information Technology and secured data

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Meeting effectiveness

Evaluate the effectiveness of your meetings according to their type: steering, workshops, or information sharing

Length: 10 - 20 mn / 23 - 36 questions

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Who is this assessment for:

Any organisation manager
Internal or external consultants

Scope: all formal and collective meetings

Industries: All industries

Effectiveness of meetings assessed on :

Preparation: TOP, documents, participants,
Basics: Introduction and conclusion, Time management, Behavioural rules, Roles
Performance: Focus, Impact on Performance

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RACI

Evaluate the clarity of roles and responsibilities in your organisation - RACI

Length: Variable, often 10 - 20 mn

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Who is this assessment for:

For all leaders and managers of your organization: functions, services, departments, project teams...
Internal or external consultants

Scope: organisation effectiveness, general management
Industries: all industries

A very concrete assessment of the clarity of roles and responsibilities for specific roles and activities. Much more powerful than a survey-type questionnaire that asks whether roles and responsibilities are clear in general, or even in one area.
You will know exactly which responsibilities to clarify for which roles.

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