Diagnose how leaders are experienced · grounds Development

Leadership Experience Diagnostic

How your leaders are really experienced.

The LXD reviews every leader against your own values and domains expected of a manager. Input is gathered anonymously from the people they lead, the team who experience them every day, and it surfaces the gap between how a leader thinks they lead and how it actually lands.

The question it answers

How are our managers actually experienced by the people around them?

The LXD captures how every leader is experienced by the people they lead, against the behaviours, values and domains your organisation has defined. It is designed for cohorts who are past fundamental skill acquisition and now need to work on their application and effectiveness as managers and leaders. That is why a diagnostic built around how they are experienced is so effective. It is built around your leadership expectations, not a generic competency model, and ensures you have managers and leaders living by your values and being the leaders your organisation needs.

What it helps you do

See how leaders are really experienced

How the people they lead actually experience them, day to day
Surface the gap between how a leader thinks they lead and how it lands
Reveal blindspots no self-assessment can

Built around your leadership

Measured against your values, domains and behaviours
A custom audit, not an off-the-shelf model
Candid, because it is anonymous and we sit outside HR

Turn feedback into change

Pinpoint one clear focus per leader
Feeds straight into Execution Plans
Re-run to prove the experience has changed

We hear from the people who feel it most

Leadership is not experienced from above or beside. It is experienced by the people you lead. So the LXD goes straight to them, the team who live a leader's impact every day, and asks how it really lands.

The people they lead

Every leader is reviewed by their own team, the people who experience their leadership day in, day out, not a panel that sees them occasionally.

Anonymous and candid

Because it is anonymous and we sit outside the business, people tell us what they would never put in an internal engagement survey.

How often, not how once

We ask how consistently a leader actually shows up this way, week to week, rather than how they performed in a single moment.

How it's enacted

Map your expectations

We build the audit around the behaviours, values and domains your organisation has defined for its leaders, not an off-the-shelf model.

Hear from their team

Every leader is reviewed anonymously by the people they lead. Because it is anonymous and we are independent of the business, the feedback is candid.

Surface the gap

We return where self-perception and lived experience diverge, theme by theme, person by person.

Re-run to measure the shift

Run again later, the LXD measures how the experience of being led has actually changed.

What it returns

How consistently each leader lives your values, in practice.

The LXD reports how often each leader actually shows up the way your organisation expects, on a clear Rarely-to-Consistently scale, across the values and leadership domains you have defined. You see it by value, by domain and by individual, with the themed, anonymous comments behind every score, run separately for your managers and your senior managers.

How consistently each leader shows up, by your values and leadership domains
A frequency view: Rarely, Sometimes, Often, Consistently
Themed, anonymised qualitative comments behind the scores
A re-measurable baseline of leadership experience

Free example

Castellan Group · LXDhow consistently, of 4

Belonging and connection3.30

Accountability & follow-through3.25

Support & psychological safety2.77

Growth and development2.49

RarelySometimesOftenConsistently

Explore a full example report.

A representative, interactive Leadership Experience Diagnostic report, built from 10X aggregate data, showing exactly what you would receive.

Built around your leadership, not a generic model.

We build the LXD around the behaviours, values and domains your organisation has defined for its leaders, so it measures the leadership your business actually needs, not a generic competency model.

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