5 Cs Readiness Snapshot

Where is your transition strong — and where is it leaking energy?

Ten short questions across the five lenses I use in every coaching engagement. Five minutes. No account, no follow-up unless you ask for one.

Step 1 of 5

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Lens 1 of 5 · Context

The environment around the work.

What is the world actually asking of you — commercially, competitively, structurally?

I can articulate, in one sentence, the external pressure driving this transition.

The pace of change in my environment matches what my organisation can absorb.

Lens 2 of 5 · Culture

What this organisation rewards, ignores, and punishes.

Culture is the difference between what's in the plan and what actually happens on a hard week.

The behaviours we reward today match the behaviours this transition requires.

When something goes wrong, we examine the system, not the individual.

Lens 3 of 5 · Commitment

How much skin in the game.

Where commitment is shallow, the work fractures under pressure. This is true for sponsors, teams, and the leader themselves.

The most senior sponsor of this work has personal skin in the game — not just rhetorical support.

We have the time and resources this transition realistically needs.

Lens 4 of 5 · Circles

Influence, upward and lateral.

No transition is delivered alone. The map of who you need, and where you stand with them, is usually the difference.

I know exactly whose buy-in I need this quarter, and where I stand with each of them.

The people whose work this will reshape have a seat at the table — not just a status update.

Lens 5 of 5 · Confidence

Your leadership DNA on a hard week.

Not the version on a good day. The version on the third call after a difficult board meeting.

I can describe what I bring to this transition without immediately qualifying it.

My team would describe me, this month, the way I want to be described.

Your snapshot

Here’s where your transition is strong — and where it’s quietly leaking energy.

Now — before you close this

Stop · Start · Continue.

Hold the read against three questions. Ten minutes. Honest answers, not novel ones. What you write here is the read translated into the only thing that matters next week.

Stop

What is the one thing this read suggests you should stop doing — even though it has been working until now?

Start

What is the one new behaviour, ritual, or conversation this read says you should start this week?

Continue

What is the one thing already working that this read confirms, and that you should protect?

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