Elementum

Mission Reality Check.

Test the rating you just gave yourself with one honest question, because most organizations feel a notch clearer than they are.

Ask this of yourself and, separately, of one board member and one front-line staff member: in one sentence, who do you serve and what change do you exist to create? And what is the single most important outcome you are trying to produce this year?

Leader's answer

Board member's answer

Staff member's answer

Read them together

Are the three answers close, or three different organizations?

Did anyone stumble, hedge, or need to look it up?

Is the outcome specific, or a fog?

If the three answers diverge, or anyone stumbled, you are further from a shared, sayable mission than it felt from inside. That gap is a finding, not a failure.

If this is a repeat run (from Embed the Mission)

Your first-run answers, as the baseline

This run, compared to the baseline: closer to a shared answer, about the same, or further?

Your answers stay in your browser on this page and are never sent anywhere. Use Save or print to keep your copy.

This sits beside the diagnostic at the start and beside the movement note at the end of Embed the Mission. Back to the guide, or start over.