Business & Performance Analysis delivers the clarity you need by pinpointing the core performance problem, measuring its true impact, and revealing the degree of internal alignment on vision, strategy, and desired outcomes.

Business & Performance Analysis delivers clear answers to critical business questions:

• Problem Scope: What is the true nature and scope of your performance challenge?
• Business Impact: What is the measurable impact of this problem on your organization?
• Evidence & Data: What is the evidence that quantifies this impact?
• Desired Outcomes: What does successful, desired performance look like?
• Cost-Benefit Analysis: What is the clear cost-benefit of fixing the problem?
• Strategic Alignment: To what degree is your team aligned on the problem and the necessary fix?

Assessing alignment is critical because a misaligned team can undermine even the best strategy; we ensure everyone is on the same page from the start.

This analysis establishes a clear path forward and validates the value of solving the performance problem, helping you avoid costly misdiagnoses and misguided solutions.

PDG’s Business & Performance Analysis sets the foundation and framing for success. We gain valuable insight into your functional structure, goals, and business strategies, while simultaneously building crucial stakeholder understanding and buy-in across the organization.

The Business & Performance Analysis Report typically includes Summary Insights of the following:

• Problem Statement & Evidence
• Problem Impact Calculation & Cost of Doing Nothing
• Problem Hypothesis
• Success Criteria: Metrics, Measures, Indicators, Standards
• Critical Factors: Stakeholder Alignment, Culture, Operating Model, Target Roles/Teams/Functions

Performance Readiness Assessment forecasts your likelihood of successfully executing your vision and strategy, given your current conditions. We provide a clear path forward by answering three critical questions:

• Capacity to Execute: Do we have the resources and capabilities to succeed?
• Risk vs. Reward: What is our probable success rate and what is at stake?
• Actionable Plan: What changes must we implement now to achieve our goals?

PDG’s exclusive Performance Readiness Assessment demands honesty about the health and conditions of your organization. It delivers a comprehensive view derived from three primary sources:

• External Influences: We analyze market shifts, economic climate, technology changes, and global events that impact your success
• Internal Influences: We assess factors within your control, including culture, work environment, management support, and talent capacity
• Internal Alignment: We evaluate how your mission, vision, strategy, and capabilities align across all functions

If these critical influences are not anticipated, mitigated, or managed effectively, failure is not a possibility—it is a certainty, and it will be costly.

The Performance Readiness Assessment Report typically includes Summary Insights of the following:

• A Readiness Score
• Key Data Inputs
• Cursory Internal Influence Examination
• Cursory External Influence Examination
• Spider Graph – Primary Influences & Degree of Impact
• Recommendations

Influence Analysis examines the cause-and-effect relationships of your performance to provide an accurate diagnosis and proper selection of interventions to achieve desired results. We answer the critical questions that drive action:

• External Impact: To what degree are external factors impacting your performance?
• Internal Drivers: To what degree are internal factors influencing your results?
• Critical Priorities: Which influences are most critical to address and why?
• Intervention Strategy: What are the appropriate, data-driven interventions to improve performance?
• Quick Wins: What “low-hanging fruit” can we capture and deploy quickly to gain immediate value?

PDG’s Influence Analysis provides an accurate diagnosis of the internal and external factors impacting your performance. We leverage this data and understanding to design and implement targeted, effective solutions that close gaps, remove barriers, and shape the conditions necessary to perform.

We ensure you get the right fix the first time. Performance must be intentionally examined and solutions purposefully engineered. We help you avoid the “treating the symptom trap,” which is one of the costliest mistakes your organization can make.

PDG is committed to fostering a performance-mindset by enabling organizations to understand the influences on performance, build confidence in conducting performance analysis, and prevent ineffective or impulsive solutions that waste time, resources, and value.

PDG is committed to building a performance mindset in your organization. We achieve this by:

• Deepening Understanding: Enabling teams to understand the true influences on performance
• Building Confidence: Empowering your people to conduct their own robust performance analysis
• Mitigating Risk: Preventing the adoption of ineffective or impulsive solutions that waste time and resources

The Influence Analysis Report typically includes Summary Insights of the following:

• Influence Hypothesis
• Key Data Inputs
• Internal Influence Examination
• Spider Graph – Primary Influences & Degree of Impact
• Prioritized Intervention Plan

Key Performer Analysis creates a “blueprint” of your top talent’s exceptional performance, capturing untapped business value and shifting your workforce’s performance curve.

Extraordinary performers set themselves apart by their ability to optimally discern, navigate, and leverage influences into performance that consistently delivers exceptional outcomes despite barriers and roadblocks. We help you systematically scale their approach into quantifiable value.

PDG examines your key performers, builds a “blueprint” of their approach, and uses it as a guide to help you develop average performers into top talent, and make more informed hiring decisions. This deep-level analysis identifies the specific factors that enable performance excellence.  We refer to this as: “Find What’s Right to Fix What’s Wrong.”

Why Key Performers Are Invaluable:

These high-impact individuals—a mere 3% to 5% of your team—drive 80% of your value.

• The Winning Formula: They have figured out how to win in your current environment
• Scalable Insights: Their tips can help 75% of colleagues improve their results
• Rapid Deployment: Due to their minimal size, we can capture their blueprint quickly
• Eager to Share: They are often enthusiastic about sharing their approach to success

We leverage the world-class PerformanceDNA™ methodology to enable rapid key performer analysis, allowing us to unlock your existing talent’s potential. This efficient process is designed to meaningfully “move the needle,” driving substantial business value and impact.

The Key Performer Analysis Report typically includes Summary Insights of the following:

• Internal Influence Examination & Observation
  • Expected Job Role Outcomes & Degree of Difficulty
  • Key Work Processes, Tasks, Tools, Resources
  • Work Environment Set-Up
  • Mind-set of Job Role/Work & Decision Process
  • Education, Skills, Work Experience, Network
  • Team Members’ Insights
• Key Performance Blueprint
• Implementation Recommendations

PDG uses a mix of data and human insights to pinpoint exactly where your organization can improve and grow. We help you understand your team’s needs, strengths, and mindsets so you can make informed decisions that drive real results.

We make data collection and analysis fast, easy, and effective, so you can focus on what matters: improving performance.

• Reach Everyone, Anywhere: Our efficient, cost-effective tools are designed to reach large or remote teams quickly and ensure anonymity. We achieve high response rates through strategic engagement, concise design, and diversified response channels
• Tailored for Impact: We customize every tool for your specific audience and purpose to ensure the feedback is relevant, practical, and actionable. We ensure high data quality using skilled survey design, representative audience sampling, and clear, unbiased language
• Avoid “Survey Fatigue”: We apply our tools judiciously, preventing burnout and improving engagement by deploying only the most relevant tools and targeted questions at optimal times. This ensures we gather precise insights for specific issues
• From Feedback to Action: We translate these insights to enhance, clarify, and validate performance-related hypotheses, accountability, and challenges, and to directly support performance improvement decisions and efforts

The Insight Survey & Inventories Report typically includes Summary Insights of the following:

• Purpose & Audience Description
• Deployment Mechanism
• Questions (& Answers if applicable)
• Response Rate
• Responses
• Data/Response Visualization