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The 5 Leadership Bottlenecks Scorecard
Does your team run without you? For CEOs with multiple highly paid leaders. In 4 minutes, see which of the 5 leadership bottlenecks is slowing your team down most and what to fix first.
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What this is. A 4-minute scorecard that shows where speed, ownership and execution are being slowed down across your organization and which bottleneck to address first. Free, private to you, and no call required.
- Checks your team against the five bottlenecks we see most often in leadership teams, with a score from 1 to 5 for each
- Tells you which one to fix first, rather than handing you five problems
- If you want the evidence-based version, the 14-Day Diagnostic asks your team rather than only you
Trusted by senior leaders at Fortune-level companies and high-growth companies.
What you'll score yourself on
Where Do CEOs Like You Usually Get Bottlenecked?
Most CEOs running a genuinely complex business don't have a strategy problem. They have a bottleneck problem. This scorecard helps you rate your team across five areas where leaders at your level tend to experience slowdowns, so you can name it and start fixing it:
Strategic Clarity and Focus
How sharp and protected your top priorities are, and whether your calendar and team behavior match.
Decision Speed and Follow-Through
Whether critical calls move fast and stay closed, or keep bouncing back to you.
Delegation and Ownership
How much of the business still runs through you versus leaders one to two levels down.
Trust and Psychological Safety
How safe it is for people to bring you bad news, risk and half-baked ideas early.
Communication and Visibility
How well your people understand what's going on, and what to do, without you in the room.
Your biggest bottleneck, with two things to try today and this week.
You'll answer simple, concrete questions about how your team really operates. Each of the five areas gets a score from 1 to 5, and your results name the one to fix first.
What you get back
A Sample Result, Start to Finish
Not a score and a pat on the back. Your results name the bottleneck to fix first, show your score in all five areas and give you two things to try: one today and one this week.
You said your goal for this year is "Grow sales from $5M to $7M."
You also said the biggest thing in the way is "everything still comes back to me." Your answers line up with that: Delegation and Ownership is the main constraint.
Based on your answers, this part of your leadership operating system is in the bottom range.
If you do not reach this goal, you said you would miss your numbers. Is that a number you are willing to miss?
Two things to try
Where your view and your team’s may differ
Everything above is how you see it. That view is real and it shapes what you believe needs to happen next. Your leaders sit in different rooms with the same customers, meetings and decisions, and they often experience the same issues in a different way.
On most leadership teams we work with, people already see what is slowing things down and where work still waits on you. They rarely have a clear, safe way to say all of it at once, so the full picture never reaches you. Your answers alone are not enough to fix this.
You said you’ve already hired a coach and read books or listened to podcasts. Those help, but they mostly start from your view of the problem. The diagnostic starts from your team’s.
The 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic asks your leaders a short set of confidential questions and brings their answers back to you as one view. You see where your picture and theirs line up, where they differ and which leadership bottleneck to tackle first for that goal.
You said your team is capable. The diagnostic shows what is getting in their way.
How it works
How Does the 5 Leadership Bottlenecks Scorecard Work?
Answer 11 short questions (about 4 minutes)
Most are multiple choice, plus your goal for this year in your own words. Your answers go to you and to the GPS Leadership Solutions team, and we never share them.
See your results right away
Your score in each of the five areas, the one to fix first and two things to try. We also email you a copy.
Start this week
You'll walk away knowing the leadership bottleneck most worth fixing first, with one thing to try today and one this week.
Who this is for
Who Is the 5 Leadership Bottlenecks Scorecard For?
This is built for CEOs, owners and presidents running a genuinely complex organization. The practical test isn't your revenue, it's this:
You have multiple direct reports each earning $200,000 or more a year. That's the mark of a real leadership team, with real delegation stakes, and it's the qualifier we use everywhere instead of a revenue band.
Issues keep escalating up the chain instead of resolving at the right level.
Growth is flat or stalled despite real effort.
A key relationship between two senior leaders is broken and it's quietly costing the business.
A high-stakes transition, a promotion, a handover, an integration, is landing on you and you're deciding under pressure.
If any of that sounds familiar, this is built for you.
Why this matters now
Why Do These Bottlenecks Get More Expensive As You Grow?
Once your team is big enough that multiple direct reports are each carrying real, $200K-plus decisions, your problems change:
- You can't outwork the bottlenecks anymore.
- You can't be the answer to every question forever.
- Every extra decision that routes through you quietly taxes speed, morale and profit.
This scorecard is a fast, honest mirror
Most leaders at this stage never stop long enough to see exactly where things get stuck. This scorecard is a fast, honest mirror so you can:
- Stop treating symptoms (more meetings, more dashboards, more "urgents").
- See where the setup sends decisions back to you.
- Decide where a small shift in how you lead could unlock outsized speed and ownership.
Where to start
Is the Scorecard Right for Me, or Should I Start With the Diagnostic?
Not there yet
If your team doesn't carry that kind of delegation weight yet, or you're not ready to involve them, this scorecard is still the right place to start. Treat it as a DIY diagnostic you can revisit every quarter.
Already there
If you already have multiple direct reports each earning $200K or more, this scorecard is just step one. What really moves the needle isn't just how you see yourself. It's how your execs, key managers and board experience you day to day.
That's what the 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic is built for. It asks your leaders a short set of confidential questions and brings their answers back to you as one view. You see where your picture and theirs line up, where they differ and which leadership bottleneck to tackle first.
TP3™ is GPS Leadership Solutions’ performance model. Each one depends on the one before: where trust is low, leaders withhold information and execution slows; where proactivity is low, every decision escalates; where productivity is low, effort produces activity rather than outcomes.
Once you complete the scorecard, you can request your 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic and pick a time to talk. We will review your scores and your goal before the call, and we can:
- Review your scorecard and highlight your most likely bottlenecks.
- Talk through how the 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic would look with your team.
- Decide together whether it's worth starting there now, later, or not at all.
People problems are really profit problems, and most CEOs in this room are solving the wrong one.Alex D. Tremble · Founder, GPS Leadership Solutions · Creator of TP3™
Frequently asked questions
Questions Before You Start
How long does this take?
About 4 minutes to answer the questions, and a few more to read your results.
Is this really private?
Yes. The scorecard report is for you first. You decide if and how you share it with your team, board or anyone else.
Are you going to pitch me something?
On the next page and in the follow-up email, you can request your 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic and pick a time to talk. If your team doesn't have that kind of delegation weight yet, ignore it and just use the tool. If it does, that call is usually the smartest next step so we can see whether the 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic makes sense. No hard close.
What does it cost?
The scorecard is free. The only paid work that follows from this is the 14-Day Executive Leadership Diagnostic and, if it makes sense, a 90-day coaching engagement after it. We'll only discuss that if it's a fit for you.
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