Boards and executive directors feel the pressure on membership, revenue, and relevance long before anyone can name the cause. The usual response is a new committee, a new campaign, or a new firm. Fifteen questions will tell you where to look first.
Most board members have never run an association. You volunteer from a member company, you have a day job, and nobody ever showed you what a healthy organization looks like from the inside. This is that picture.
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Answer for the organization as it runs today, not as the plan describes it. Press 1–4 to choose, or use the arrow keys.
Your scores across all five disciplines and the three practices where movement buys you the most, plus a copy by email to share with your board.
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Each discipline scores out of nine. One low bar sitting next to high ones is usually what is holding the rest back.
The three practices where movement buys you the most. One priority at a time.
The full Health Index scores all 30 practices across these same five disciplines, adds the intangibles that set healthy organizations apart, and places you in your lifecycle stage. You get a score out of 100 and a Snapshot the moment you finish, then a written report on your three lowest disciplines and how to sequence the work. Organizations under pressure usually name the wrong cause. The point of a diagnosis is to stop guessing.
A score is a starting point for a conversation, not a grade. Two organizations with the same total often need very different things.