The Septima Organizational Diagnostic reads how your organization works across seven dimensions, then shows you where to focus and who can help.
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Where to focus: Courage. Routine decisions wait for senior sign-off. Agree who owns them, then scan again.
Surveys hear what people choose to say. Septima also notices what goes unsaid: if nobody mentions the mission, that silence is a finding.
Where each of the six dimensions sits, and how coherent they are together.
The likely barriers, the imbalances and the strengths behind your performance.
The signals behind each finding, with the limits of the evidence made clear.
The highest-leverage opportunities, and the next steps to explore.
A facilitated conversation to test the findings against your context and agree where to focus.
Introductions to the practitioners or consultants best placed to lead the work.
Each dimension names a capability that organizations build as they grow. Together they give leaders one picture of the whole system.
Organizations grow in a recognizable order. A founding team runs on ideas, a scaling company runs on nerve, and a mature one runs on process. Each stage adds a capability, and the Seven Cs name them in the order they tend to appear. Growing into a new stage doesn’t retire the earlier ones: a healthy organization keeps all of them.
Septima reads each of the first six as flat, in tune or sharp. A flat dimension holds the others back: a company short on Courage keeps escalating decisions it could make itself. A sharp one crowds the others out: process built for scale can smother the Creativity that started the company. Coherence is the seventh reading. It shows how well the six work together, the way a chord depends on every string.
The foundation everything else rests on: people’s health, skills and resources, and freedom from the distractions that make work impossible.
The base of the pyramid. Without it, nothing above it holds.
The spirit of a startup: small groups chasing big ideas, early fans and the optimism to try.
Two founders tinkering in a garage. People who would do the work for free.
The will to turn an idea into a company: trusting your judgement, making big bets and competing to win.
David beating Goliath. Leaders who take charge and turn a group into a lean, fast team.
A larger purpose that unites the team, and a shared playbook that lets anyone act without waiting for the top.
The NASA janitor who told President Kennedy he was helping put a man on the moon.
An organization running on all cylinders: efficient processes, steady growth, merit and return on investment.
The hundred-year-old company that society can’t do without.
The organization questioning itself: whom it serves, how it’s run and how it’s seen.
The midlife moment when stakeholders, sustainability and reputation move to the center, and hierarchies flatten.
Holding all six at once, even where they pull in different directions. Septima reads it as the overall picture, not on the flat-to-sharp scale.
The playful giant and the benevolent empire: an organization at ease with its own contradictions, with humble leaders and attention on how groups work.
Think of Septima as the doctor who reads the full body scan. We find what matters, point you to the right specialist, and help you see how the pieces fit together.
Together we choose the messages, meeting transcripts and documents to analyze, and where the analysis runs.
We remove personal details, read the patterns across the Seven Cs and prepare the findings.
In a readout session we test the findings against your context and agree the highest-leverage opportunities.
We help you scope the projects and match you with the practitioner or consultant best placed to lead each one.
Scan again on a schedule or as needed, and track progress.
We agree the scope, timetable, information and commercial terms before work begins.
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