It breaks down this way:

• You: 30 minutes (likely less) for your fit call, plus another 30 minutes for your intro call
• Your whole team: 15 minutes individually to complete the questionnaire,  then 60–90 minutes together for the reporting session

Sometimes leadership teams aren't on the same page with what projects to tackle first (or at all). The great thing about the Growth Readiness & Leadership Alignment Assessment is that 1) it takes hardly any time — about 3 hours for your leadership team — and 2) it identifies vulnerabilities and opportunities without dictating what your team "should" do about it. 

The Growth Readiness & Leadership Alignment Assessment gives you the information you need to decide among your leadership team what initiatives are important. The nature of the reporting session allows your team to naturally come to a consensus on what the right next step is.

Here's what one executive had to say about the Growth Readiness & Leadership Alignment Assessment: 

“[If someone’s on the fence] we’d say the same thing we’ve already said to other companies when we talk to them about it. They say, 'we already do some of that stuff,' and we say 'you probably don’t do it in the same way [MAGNET does it], and you should probably do it like this.'”

- Matt Boshar, Vice President, Tech NH Incorporated

Our Growth Advisors have found that 4 to 7 people is the ideal number. With 3 or fewer, the dialogue isn't robust. With 8 or more, there are too many voices for everyone to be heard. 

No; it stands on its own as a valuable offering. You get a 25+ page report detailing your team's answers and comparing them against companies of a comparable size. Your Growth Advisor/Scaling Up coach takes 60 to 90-minutes to walk you through the report and guide your team in productive conversation about what steps to take based on the results. You might decide after the assessment that you'd like ongoing coaching, but you might determine that your team is well-suited to tackle those next steps on its own.

Some companies decide to work with MAGNET to adopt the Scaling Up framework at their company. Others decide they'll take the assessment results and take a DIY approach to addressing issues and capitalizing on opportunities.

Scaling Up has made a huge difference for the manufacturers we've worked with. Here's what one CEO had to say:

“I have been working on Strategic Planning for 15 plus years and normally, when I would actually complete the plan, I would publish it, then put it on the shelf until next year, often missing more of our objectives than those we met. When Dave and his team introduced my team to Scaling Up, it made a lot of sense to try. Breaking your Annual Initiatives into Quarterly Priorities and following a disciplined meeting cadence sticking to the prescribed agenda proved to be the missing piece of the puzzle. In 2021 we established a 5-year goal to grow from $19MM in revenue to $50MM by the end of 2025. I am excited to say that at the end of 2023, our revenue will have grown to over $55MM. 2 years ahead of plan.”

- Lee Watson, CEO & Chairman at AECO Companies

MAGNET gets funding from Ohio Manufacturing Extension Partnership to help Ohio's small and medium-sized manufacturers increase sales, create jobs and generate cost savings through technological innovation, workforce training and improved management practices. This Growth Readiness & Leadership Alignment Assessment jumpstarts success, so we're offering it at a discounted price to allow more manufacturers to benefit from it in the summer and fall of 2025.

Manufacturing companies and adjacent industries within MAGNET's service area – 24 counties in Northeast Ohio – as designated by Ohio MEP.