Leadership and Progression Systems Diagnostic™
See the capability your organisation may be overlooking
Your organisation may already have the capability it needs. The challenge is knowing where it sits, whether it is being developed and where leadership, progression and recognition systems may be preventing it from being fully used.
Make Hidden Capability™ visible.
What the diagnostic does
The Leadership and Progression Systems Diagnostic™ helps organisations identify where valuable capability may be overlooked, underdeveloped or at risk. It looks beyond stated policies and leadership intent to explore how progression, recognition and development actually operate, revealing where leadership intent and operational reality diverge.
Three Areas of Focus
Senior Leadership
Middle Management
High-Potential Talent
Where leadership expectations, succession decisions and organisational systems may be creating unseen capability risk.
How management behaviours and day-to-day practices influence recognition, development and progression.
Where capable people may be delivering significant value without gaining the visibility, opportunity or development needed to progress.
Understand where to act
From insight to action
Using a combination of organisational insight, stakeholder perspectives and analysis, the Diagnostic helpls build a clearer picture of:
🔸 Where capability is being overlooked or underused
🔸 Where dependency or succession risk may be developing
🔸 Where progression systems are not working as intended
🔸 Where targeted action could have the greatest impact.
The output gives leaders a practical evidence base for deciding what to address, where to intervene and what to prioritise next.
Meet Lauren Neal
Two decades inside the organisations this report is written for.
Lauren Neal is an engineer, Chartered Project Professional and founder of Valued at Work, with more than 20 years’ experience across major engineering and energy projects.
Her experience revealed a recurring challenge: valuable capability isn’t always visible. Today, she helps technical organisations recognise, develop and protect that Hidden Capability™ — strengthening leadership, progression and performance.
Founder of Valued at Work. Engineer. Advocate. Coach. Whether you're here to lead change or find it, you're in the right place.
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