Test your structural finding against the plainest and hardest question, whether it serves the mission or protects the institution, because attachment to what you built quietly distorts a decision this large.
After the Restructuring Diagnostic, before you write your priority plan, ideally with a trusted outside peer in the room.
For your structural finding, answer honestly.
| Question | Your honest answer |
|---|---|
| If I set aside protecting this organization and my own role, and asked only what serves the mission and the people we serve, would I reach the same answer? | |
| Who is this decision really protecting: the mission, or the institution and the people who run it? | |
| If a respected peer with no stake looked at this, what would they say the mission needs? | |
| What am I most afraid of losing, and is that fear about the mission or about myself? |
Where the mission-first answer and the institution-protecting answer differ, the gap is the most important finding in this whole pathway, and the honest choice is the mission-first one. This is hard precisely because you built the institution and it matters to you, which is exactly why an outside peer's read is worth having here. Feeds the Structural Priority Plan.
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