The middle is a valve
Do priorities reach every team, and do problems come back up?
This diagnostic reads the teams you lead through their managers as one group: whether the same priorities arrive at every team, where work waits between your own teams, whether managers decide or escalate, which team is over capacity, whether what works in one team reaches the others, and whether problems reach you in time. It is built for what you can see and change from the middle, not for questions that belong to the function above or to any one team.
Practice foundations
The domains and item wording are informed by the Project Management Institute standards on work in progress, flow, and benefits ownership, ISO 37000 on delegated accountability, ISO 31000 and COSO Enterprise Risk Management on ownership at every level, the IIA Three Lines Model on first-line ownership, and peer-reviewed work on psychological safety and organizational learning collected in the research foundations. These references inform the constructs; none certifies, validates, or endorses this developmental instrument, and the Four A's of Organizational Readiness™ is the integrating architecture.