MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT
Individual Invincibility Blueprint™
A personalised competency assessment that shows you how you actually operate, names what is working and what is not, and gives you a specific plan to act on. Four tiers from individual contributor to senior leader. Built entirely from your own honest answers.
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Your answers. Your management system. Mapped and diagnosed.
Every finding in your report traces to something you wrote.
You complete a behavioural questionnaire about real situations you face at your level. Each tier has its own questionnaire, written specifically for the decisions, pressures, and responsibilities that come with that role. A junior manager is not asked a simpler version of a senior leader’s question. They are asked entirely different questions, because the job is different. Your answers are analysed against a competency framework and the result is a written report, typically 8,000 to 15,000 words, with a specific development plan built from your evidence.
Nobody else fills in a form about you. There is no benchmark, no comparison group, no personality model. The report reflects how you actually operate, not how others perceive you or how a model predicts you should behave.
The questionnaire is thorough. The Personal tier has 22 questions assessing the 7 Character competencies that drive personal effectiveness. The Junior Manager tier has 51 questions written around the reality of leading a team for the first time. The Mid Manager tier has 51 questions designed for the different challenge of managing through other managers. The Senior tier has 56 questions built for organisational-level leadership: political dynamics, restructuring, and whether the operation holds together without you. Most people complete it across multiple sittings. The depth is deliberate: it is what makes the report specific to you rather than generic.
Clarity: know exactly where you stand.
Most professionals have a vague sense of their strengths and weaknesses. This report replaces that with a detailed map. You will see precisely which competencies carry your performance and which ones are quietly holding you back.
Direction: know what to work on first.
The development plan gives you 3-5 specific actions for the first 90 days, each with a measurement criterion. Not a list of courses. Not a competency framework. Actions you can start on Monday, with a way to know whether you have done them.
Confidence: stop guessing how you operate.
Whether you are preparing for a step up, leading through a restructure, or trying to understand why you keep hitting the same friction points, you will have an evidence-based assessment of your capability that you can trust because it came from your own answers.
Ideal Clients
"I got promoted but nobody taught me how to manage."
Most first-time managers are still doing the job they were promoted from, with a new title and a team they are not sure how to lead. This assessment shows you where you actually stand and what to work on first.
"I want honest feedback without involving my employer."
This is a private assessment. Your employer does not see your answers or your report. No HR process, no 360 from colleagues, no organisational politics. Just you, your answers, and a direct assessment of how you operate.
"I am good at what I do but I know I could be sharper."
You do not need to be a manager to benefit from a structured assessment of how you work. The Personal tier assesses the 7 Character competencies that drive personal effectiveness: how you make decisions, handle pressure, organise yourself, and follow through. Whether you have 5 years of experience or 30, the report shows you what is working and what is costing you performance you should be getting.
"I need to know if my management skills will survive the next five years."
AI already handles tracking, reporting, scheduling, and coordination. The managers who remain valuable are the ones whose capability sits in competencies AI cannot touch: authority, judgement, people development, and systems design. This assessment measures exactly those competencies.
"If I had to find a management role outside my industry, would I get one?"
When a sector contracts, the talent pool floods with displaced managers all holding similar experience. Sector knowledge stops being a differentiator. The managers who get re-hired at the same level are the ones who can demonstrate transferable management competence. This assessment tells you whether your capability is portable or only legible inside the industry you already know.
"I manage a team of managers and I am not sure they can manage."
Mid and senior managers can assess their own capability, or commission assessments for their management team. Build a baseline of where capability actually sits before making structural, hiring, or development decisions.
FOUR TIERS
Pricing
Four tiers. Each has its own questionnaire designed for a specific level. The questions are different because the job is different.
Choose the tier that matches where you are now.
Personal
For professionals who want a structured assessment of their own personal effectiveness, whether or not they manage others.
7 competencies assessed (Character group)
22 questions | 2–3 hours
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Junior Manager
For team leads, supervisors, and first-line managers leading individual contributors.
20 competencies across Character, Structure, and Influence
51 questions | 3–4 hours
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Mid ManagerMost common
For department heads, functional leads, and managers of managers.
20 competencies across Character, Structure, and Influence
51 questions | 3–4 hours
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Senior Manager
For directors, executives, and senior leaders with organisational-level responsibility.
20 competencies across Character, Structure, and Influence
56 questions | 4–5 hours
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For team or corporate assessments of 5 or more, contact me for volume pricing.
YOUR REPORT
What the report contains
Your report opens with an executive summary that names the 2-3 things that matter most about how you operate. It does not soften or generalise. It tells you what the assessment found, directly.
The competency profile maps your capability across every assessed competency, with a radar chart showing the shape of your operating system. A flat profile means something different from an uneven one, and the report explains what your particular shape reveals.
The assessment themes section identifies cross-cutting patterns that run across multiple competencies. These are often the most valuable findings: the behaviours you repeat in different contexts without realising they share a common root.
For manager tiers, the Management Readiness Dashboard rates your readiness across 9 management responsibilities: Planning, Decision Making, Delegation, Control, Motivation, Development, Communication, Team Formation, and Personal Organisation. Each responsibility is rated Ready, Ready with risks, or Developing, with an explanation of why.
The development plan is structured in three phases. The 90-Day plan contains 3-5 specific actions you can start immediately, each with a measurement criterion so you know whether you have done it. Year One extends the plan to deeper capability shifts. The Two-Year Horizon addresses the structural changes that take sustained effort.
SEE THE FULL PRODUCT
Download complete sample reports
All participants in these samples are fictional. The reports are real examples of what the assessment produces, at full length and full detail.
Every report comes with a one-page Assessment Summary showing your overall assessment, top strengths, critical development areas, headline actions, and your competency radar chart.
These are complete reports at full length and full detail. Your report will follow the same structure, but every finding, every theme, and every development action will come from your own answers.
Personal Tier Sample Report
Daniel Smith, Customer Support Professional
17 pages | 7 competencies (Character group)
"The gap between what you can see needs doing and what you actually do is the single thread running through every competency assessed here."
Junior Manager Sample Report
Tom Harris, Customer Support Team Leader
43 pages | 20 competencies | 9 management responsibilities rated
"The gap between the quality of your thinking and the durability of your systems is the single most important finding from this assessment."
Mid Manager Sample Report
Mark Davies, Planning and Delivery Manager
49 pages | 20 competencies | 9 management responsibilities rated
"Your personal analytical and diagnostic capability is consistently stronger than the systems you have built to carry that capability without your direct involvement."
Senior Manager Sample Report
David Mercer, Senior Customer Operations Manager
53 pages | 20 competencies | 9 management responsibilities rated
"You make better decisions when the evidence is numerical than when the evidence is a person, and the gap between the two is wider than you have acknowledged."
THE ASSESSMENT
Built on 20 years of operational leadership
The framework behind this assessment comes from two decades of leading operational transformations and rebuilding capability across industries, functions, and levels of seniority. The competencies it measures are not theoretical. They are the ones that determine whether performance holds together under pressure or quietly falls apart.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A personalised competency assessment. You complete a structured behavioural questionnaire about your real work situations. Your answers are analysed against a framework of up to 20 competencies, and you receive a detailed written report showing how you operate, where your strengths sit, and what to change first. It includes a three-phase development plan with specific, measurable actions.
A 360 asks other people what they think of you. A psychometric measures personality traits against a statistical model. This assessment does neither. It analyses what you tell us about your own real decisions, situations, and challenges. Nobody else is involved. There are no benchmarks, no comparison groups, and no personality categories. Every finding traces to something you wrote.
The Personal tier has 22 questions and typically takes 2-3 hours. The Junior Manager tier has 51 questions (3-4 hours). The Mid Manager tier also has 51 questions but they are different questions, written for a different level (3-4 hours). The Senior tier has 56 questions (4-5 hours). You complete it at your own pace across multiple sittings. There is no time limit.
None. The Personal tier is for any professional who wants a structured assessment of their own effectiveness. The manager tiers are designed for people who currently manage others. Choose the tier that matches your current role.
No. This is a private, individual assessment. Your answers and your report are between you and Greg Kurnikov. If your employer commissions assessments for a team, they receive a summary of capability themes across the group, but individual reports remain confidential to each participant.
Within 5-7 working days of questionnaire completion.
The standard product is Report Only. No debrief, no ongoing sessions, no subscription. One payment, one report. If you want structured coaching support to work through the development plan, Business Fortification is available as a separate engagement.
It probably will confirm some things you suspect. But every report I have produced has also surfaced patterns the participant had not seen: connections between behaviours in different areas that are difficult to spot from the inside. The value is rarely in the individual findings. It is in seeing how they link together and which one, if addressed first, would move several others.
Yes. Volume pricing is available for 5 or more assessments. Contact me to discuss team or corporate arrangements.
David Swanston, ISPA Council Member, Head of Commercial & Growth, Dotlines