Productivity Gap Indicator
Diagnoses human barriers to Lean: continuous improvement, compliance, problem solving and handling difficulties.
Manager capability assessment
Find gaps in manager and leadership capability before buying more training. Diagnose performance, target development and measure what changes.
What is a manager capability assessment?
A manager capability assessment shows where behaviour, skills and operating conditions are helping or blocking performance across a manager, team or wider organisation. Mission Performance’s configurable Gap Indicators aggregate organisation-wide evidence instead of asking individuals to rate themselves in isolation.
How capability assessment works
Identify the right gaps, connect them to operating results, then target the response.
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Define the performance question
Start with the business outcome and the operational measures that matter, not with a catalogue of courses.
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Compare the organisation
Aggregate evidence across leadership levels and operating groups to expose gaps between executive perception and frontline reality.
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Find the few critical capabilities
Diagnose the behavioural and systemic causes behind performance leakage across the relevant Gap Indicator framework.
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Train, sustain and remeasure
Use the findings to target development, connect change to operational KPIs and resurvey to test whether capability moved.
Assess leadership capability before buying more training
Start with the gap between executive perception and frontline reality. The Leadership Gap Indicator examines credibility, accountability, challenge, vision and fairness. Connect the findings to the operational measures that matter, then target development and reassess. See how assessment and coaching supported executive succession in a global insurance group.
The Gap Indicator family
A performance intelligence system covering over 40 capabilities across four performance areas.
Leadership Gap Indicator
Gauges impact and consistency across credibility, action orientation, challenge, accountability, vision and fairness.
Sales Capability Gap Indicator
Measures sales process and human sales capabilities: trust, pipeline quality, value, negotiation and conversion.
Human Performance Gap Indicator
Assesses resilience, emotional intelligence, psychological safety, self-belief, self-control, and learning versus blaming.
What the diagnosis usually finds
Gap Indicator is not an engagement survey and not an individual self-rating tool.
Misalignment between executive perception and frontline reality
Inconsistent standards across business units
Cultural behaviours undermining safety, productivity or commercial performance
Weak execution discipline
Leadership capability lagging strategic ambition
Who it is for
- Executive leadership teams
- Manufacturing and supply chain leaders
- Energy and utilities operators
- Global sales organisations
- HR and people functions
Assess your sales capability gaps
Understand where your sales system is quietly leaking value—and where your best teams are outperforming it.
Case studies
How do you build a succession pipeline of executive-ready leaders?
A global insurer needed to assess and develop around 150 high-potential senior managers for executive roles.
How do you rebuild leadership and strategy after a business downturn?
A UK construction-services firm faced strategic misalignment, a leadership transition and management capability gaps after a downturn and a risky overseas venture.
LeanUp: Converting Lean Investment into Measurable Productivity and Engagement
A Texas manufacturing plant had invested in Lean but stalled because the human and behavioural side was missing.
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Frequently asked questions
What is a manager capability assessment?
A manager capability assessment shows where behaviour, skills and operating conditions are helping or blocking performance across a manager, team or wider organisation. Mission Performance’s configurable Gap Indicators aggregate organisation-wide evidence instead of asking individuals to rate themselves in isolation.
What is a Capability Gap Indicator?
A performance intelligence system that finds the capabilities driving your results. Refined over 25 years, and faster than conventional consulting in part because we use AI to compress the diagnostics. The family covers more than 40 capabilities across four performance areas.
How is a Gap Indicator different from a self-assessment survey?
Self-assessment surveys ask individuals to rate themselves. A Gap Indicator aggregates organisation-wide data to diagnose systemic capability gaps and their root causes, so you can see where performance is leaking before you spend on another programme.
Do you only diagnose?
This page is the diagnostic. The model is designed for resurvey and measurable capability movement aligned to operational KPIs. Train and Sustain sit next in the loop once you know which few capabilities to build.
What happens after a capability assessment?
Findings are analysed against operational KPIs — incident rates, yield, waste, margin, conversion and audit data — so behavioural maturity is linked to measurable results. Then we train exactly those capabilities and sustain the change.
If the stakes are real, start with a conversation.
Tell us where performance is leaking. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right partner.