Use these definitions exactly. They are the single source of truth and must match the tooltips and the instrument.
Dimensions
- Drive
- The push to set direction, take ground, and make things happen.
- Cohesion
- The pull toward the group, keeping people aligned and working together.
- Rigor
- The discipline to get the details right and hold the standard.
- Range
- The flexibility to adapt, cover more than one thing, and handle the unfamiliar.
- Tolerance
- How much stretch a person can absorb before the strain starts to cost them. It sets how far you can push someone before fit turns into wear.
Signature numbers
- Adaptation Load
- How hard the team has to bend its people to meet this mission. High load means people are working against their natural grain to make it work.
- Strength Utilization
- How much of the team’s real strength the mission actually uses. Low utilization means real talent is sitting idle.
Team metrics
- Coverage
- Whether every dimension the mission needs has at least one person who can carry it. A gap means no one clears the bar.
- Mission Fit
- How well the team you have matches the mission you set, taken as a whole.
- Balance
- Whether the team’s strengths are spread across what the mission needs, or piled up in a few places and thin in others.
The read on each dimension
- Mission demand
- The level a mission needs on a given dimension. On the instrument it is the line. Clearing it means a person can carry that dimension for this mission.
- Gap
- No one clears the line, and the closest person is well short. The team is exposed here.
- Near miss
- No one quite clears the line, but the best person is close. Within reach, not yet covered.
- Single cover
- Exactly one person clears the line. The work gets done, but it hangs on one person, so it is fragile.
- Covered
- Two people clear the line. Healthy, with a backup.
- Overlap
- Three or more clear the line. The dimension is more than covered, so some real strength is sitting idle here. Not a failure, but waste worth noticing.
Core concepts
- Tempo
- How much pressure and pace the mission runs at. Higher tempo shrinks how much stretch people can absorb, so the same team feels the load harder.
- Readiness
- The single headline read of how prepared this team is for this mission, blending coverage, fit, balance, and load into one score and a verdict.
- Comfort, Stretch, Strain, Yield
- The four steps of how a person is handling the demand. Comfort is well within range, Stretch is a healthy reach, Strain is starting to cost them, Yield is past what they can sustain.
- Addition Read
- Modeling what happens when you add a specific person to a team. It shows the effect on the team and on that person at once, so you see fit before you commit. The signature move of the tool.
- Re-tasking
- Changing a team’s mission and seeing how the same people hold up against the new demand. Strengths that fit the old mission can turn into gaps under the new one.
- Mission Fit Matrix
- A view of how every team reads against every mission you could assign, so you can see the whole portfolio rather than one team at a time.