The 256© Diagnostic
Understand what is really holding performance back
The starting point of the APCG model. The diagnostic draws from the full performance architecture — four layers, twenty-six levers, roughly one hundred and ten initiatives — and identifies the few that matter most for your situation.
Six questions
The diagnostic helps answer
- 01
Where is performance being held back?
- 02
Which levers matter most now?
- 03
Where do leaders agree?
- 04
Where do leaders quietly diverge?
- 05
Which initiatives deserve immediate focus?
- 06
Where could analytics, AI, or simple tools accelerate progress?
Anonymous by design
Candor is the design principle
Leadership diagnostics allow C-suite members and senior leaders to express their views candidly. Individual responses are never presented as named responses in client-facing outputs.
Instead, findings are synthesized into aggregate patterns, priority themes, leadership divergence maps, and alignment gaps — so leaders can fully share what they see, where they disagree, and what they believe is holding the organization back, without the pressure of internal politics or public attribution.
Where leaders diverge
individual leader (anonymous)team median
Priority levers
Ranked from aggregate responses, weighted for stage, urgency, and relevance.
Two ways in
Free for individuals. Included for workshop clients.
Individual diagnostic
FreeFor leaders, managers, owners, and professionals. Roughly ten minutes of focused questions. You receive your performance archetype — one of 256 — with a full written report delivered to your email.
Team diagnostic
Included with a workshopFor companies purchasing a Strategic Alignment Workshop, the team diagnostic is included as pre-work. Anonymous by design, it tailors the session around your organization's actual issues, leadership perspectives, and priorities.
Your archetype report is emailed to you on completion. For accuracy, the diagnostic is limited to two runs per email address per month — the reading reflects your considered view of the business, and repeated retakes dilute it.
The natural next step
One leader's view is a signal. Seven are a map.
The individual diagnostic shows your company through one pair of eyes. The C-Suite Alignment Session runs the same diagnostic across your whole leadership team — anonymously — and turns the result into a facilitated executive discussion.
Executive entry point
C-Suite Alignment Session
A focused two-hour executive session. Your leadership team completes the anonymous diagnostic; APCG returns with an integrated readout — where leaders align, where they diverge, and which performance priorities deserve attention first.
- Anonymous leadership diagnostic for your executive team
- Integrated readout with divergence map across 8 dimensions
- Facilitated two-hour session — onsite or virtual
- A one-page agreed view of the priorities that matter most