Guides and tools
Executive Presence Skills Gap Assessment
Confidence can be hard to cultivate. But it starts with understanding where skill gaps exist at your organization. Answer 9 brief questions to reveal your score and actionable next steps.
Executive Performance Levers Assessment
Craft your budget ask to match what budget-approvers are prioritizing. In 12 questions, learn where money, market, and exposure rank for your stakeholder and receive actionable tips to stay on target.
Address Budget Concerns Head On
An airtight budget proposal needs a straight story and a structured approach to get results. But where story and structure can give your ask an inviting framing, budget-approvers are always weighing three key elements:
Money. Market. Exposure.
And they’re always in flux. Time and role changes can shift their perspectives and priorities to meet the moment. Cost one day and reach the next. For decision-makers, plotting how actions and roads-not-taken will play out in the long run is a constant consideration.
As a budget-seeker, knowing where approvers are leveling their concerns can help unlock the funding, time, and organizational backing you need. But missing the mark can open your request up to scrutiny or even create a gulf between you and your approver. In high-stakes budget conversations, you have one chance to get it right before your window of opportunity (and funding) slams shut.
Thankfully, everything you need to know is coded into the interactions you’ve already had with your approver. All it takes is a little guided reflection to put their hopes and fears into focus.
Pull the Right Executive Performance Lever
To help organize your next budget proposal to bullseye every beat, our interactive Executive Performance Levers Assessment helps best define ROI and keep your ask on target. In 12 questions, you’ll reflect on previous interactions you’ve had with your budget-approver to determine how money, market, and exposure influence their decision-making.
The assessment asks participants about recurring themes in conversations, how this stakeholder approaches organizational hurdles, and what tends to get the bulk of their attention. After completing all 12 questions, you’ll uncover what’s currently driving your budget-approver and receive actionable next steps to address MME with nuance that supports your vision.
Learn when to lean on cost-savings, nudging out a close competitor, or amplifying your brand on the world stage, and how balancing your ask across key vectors can peek your approver’s interest. This free assessment can give you the direction you need to speak their language and align on why your vision deserves backing.
Budget-approvers have enough to worry about. Take the guesswork off their plate and give your ask the framing it needs to move forward.
Complete the form to the right to access the tool and walk away with a downloadable action plan to make your next budget ask a reality.
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