An improvement target must be (partly) evaluated in terms of the amount of work required from the organization. PRAIORITIZE uses some very advanced algorithms to calculate the target's resulting list of praiorities for respondents and summarizes these in four flavors:
VERY SHORT
The improvement is very moderate, and only a minority of respondents get affected.
Usually, such a short list is a sign of too little ambition.
JUST RIGHT
The improvement is not too big. No/hardly any individual gets demanded.
RATHER LONG
Very significant improvement in workload. Affects the majority/all respondents.
UNREALISTIC
Very intense, unrealistic improvement workload. It might affect some, most, or all respondents.
Conclusion
To get to the Praiority list screen, click on the tile or click in the navigation bar:
Improve > Praiority list > Conclusion
The top half of the screen shows the management summary and two circle graphs:
We conducted research in nearly 4,000 teams, and again and again, it shows that a minority of questions and respondents cover most of the gap between the actual situation and the target. The two circle diagrams show precisely what percentage of questions and respondents cover what part of this gap.
Hence, the bottom two tables of the screen show which questions and respondents to focus on. Both the questions and respondents are – by default – sorted by their relative ‘contribution’ to the gap. The Focus on these questions table's rightmost column shows links to the improvement steps (if these have been enabled, contact the Assessment Coordinator in your organization for details). The Focus on these respondents table's rightmost column shows links to the respondents’ Personal Virtual Consultant (again, if these have been enabled, contact the Assessment Coordinator in your organization).
Graph: the Gap Map
The Gap Map is used for a reality check of the praiority list.
To get to the Gap Map, click in the navigation bar:
Improve > Praiority list > Graph
In the Gap Map, the questions are in the rows, and the respondents are in the columns. The number in the 'cells' represents the answer given by the respondent on that question ('1' being the worst answer, '2' being the next best answer, etc.). The cell color indicates whether (and how much) that score is below, on, or above the improvement target for that question for that specific respondent:
Here is an example.
Five respondents answered this question "Do you celebrate successes?". None of these five respondents answered anonymously (no name visible). Bob scored answer 1 (the worst answer on a PRAIORITIZE question). Mary-Ann and Ricky scored the middle answer, and Erik the best answer. John skipped this question (white square). Erik scored grey with that answer, which means: on target. That means that Mary-Ann and Ricky come in 1 answer (step) short, and Bob two answers. This group of respondents is four steps short of the target. This is 44% of all steps short in all questions that have been assigned to the selected target. Now we compare all questions.
We see that the first question is 44% of the total gap. And that the first three questions are almost 80% of the gap between the actual situation and the target. The moment you choose a higher maturity level (a heavier target), the Gap Map will become increasingly blue until all green cells, and later even most of the grey ones, disappear. The empty (white) cells indicate that a respondent did not answer that question. The praiority list is evaluated by two components: how 'blue' is the Gap Map and are the blue cells somewhat equally divided among the respondents.
Of course, you can tailor the Gap Map to your own needs. The Topics dropdown allows focusing on one or more topics. The Respondents dropdown allows to in-/exclude certain respondent groups. The View dropdown allows you to modify which of the respondents' personal details (e.g., name, email address, department, role) is heading the column.