Growth Problems Index

• • Firmographic Information

    What is your organization’s primary industry?

    • Agriculture, Mining
    • Construction
    • Finance, Insurance, Real Estate
    • Government
    • Health Care
    • High-Tech
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail, Wholesale
    • Services
    • Transportation
    • Communications
    • Utilities
    • Nonprofit

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    What best describes your position in the organization?

    • Owner/Partner
    • Corporate Management
    • General Manager
    • VP (EVP, SVP, VP)
    • Director/Manager
    • Staff/Support/Administration
    • Consultant
    • Other

• • Firmographic Information

    What is your company’s total annual sales?

    • Less than $5 million
    • $5 to $25 million
    • $26 to $100 million
    • $101 to $500 million
    • $501 million to $1 billion
    • More than $1 billion

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    Please indicate the total number of employees.

    • 1-9
    • 10-49
    • 50-99
    • 100-499
    • 500-999
    • 1,000-4,999
    • 5,000-9,999
    • 10,000 or more

• Firmographic Information

  Company Name
  Name
  Email Address

• This questionnaire assesses the severity of the most common business growth problems. Once completed, you will receive a customized online report that contains an overall growth problem severity level and a summary of the most significant growth problems your business is facing. The custom report is based on your responses to a series of 12 statements.
  

  FOR ALL THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS, ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 5 (1 BEING THE LOWEST AND 5 BEING THE HIGHEST), SELECT THE DEGREE TO WHICH EACH IS PRESENT IN YOUR BUSINESS.

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  People don’t know who’s responsible for what.

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  The right people aren’t in the right jobs.

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  People are stressed and overwhelmed by the amount of work to be done.

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  It takes too long to get decisions made.

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  The same issues come up over and over again.

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  The company’s top priorities are unclear.

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  More and more time is lost dealing with problems and mistakes.

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  There’s a gap between goals and the company’s ability to achieve them.

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  Many of the company’s managers are ineffective.

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  There’s an “us versus them” attitude within the company.

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  There are regular communication breakdowns.

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  Some people are uncomfortable with all the change in the business.

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