Free Operating Pressure Check
Where is the pressure showing up?
Answer a short set of questions about how work, decisions, capacity and ownership are functioning in your organization.
This will not diagnose your organization. It will help you see where operating pressure may be concentrated and what questions may be worth investigating.
Takes about 5 minutes. No preparation required.
Question 1 of 13
Start with the organization.
This check looks for signals across six operating-pressure areas. It does not rank or diagnose the organization.
Your Operating Pressure Signals
Here's where the pressure appears to be showing up.
These results are signals, not a diagnosis. They reflect patterns in your answers and are intended to help you ask better questions about what is happening in the organization.
This check does not diagnose the organization. Similar symptoms can come from different underlying conditions. A staffing issue can be a true staffing issue; owner dependence can come from role design, capability, trust, information, workload or other factors.
The results are intended to help focus the next conversation, not prescribe a solution.
A signal tells you where to look. It doesn't tell you why it's happening.
Similar operating symptoms can come from different underlying conditions. Leadership dependence, for example, might reflect unclear authority, missing capability, workload, information, trust, role design — or a combination.
Operating Clarity is designed for situations where the decision matters enough to investigate that difference.
You may not need a diagnostic.
If the situation is sufficiently clear and leadership can act safely, Portage may tell you that a paid diagnostic isn't necessary.