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Woodside Management Partners Woodside, Queens · since 2011
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About four minutes

The business assessment

Twelve questions about facts you already know, two of which change depending on your earlier answers. At the end it names two or three areas your answers point at and the engagement that addresses each. It is a good opening question and a bad diagnosis, and it says so on every screen.

  • Nothing is sent until you press send
  • No score and no comparison with anybody
  • Resumable, and the link carries your answers

An indicative self-assessment, not professional advice. This is an indicative self-assessment, not professional advice, and it is not a substitute for a conversation. It describes what your answers suggest — it cannot know your business, it is not compared against any other business, and nothing it produces is a projection, a valuation or a measurement.

This is the version without JavaScript. It asks every question rather than choosing between them, and it sends the whole thing in one go instead of showing you the result first. The answers you give to questions that would not have applied to your business are dropped before anything is worked out.

Roughly what did the business turn over last year?

A band is enough. Nothing here is stored against your name until you choose to send it.

How many people work in the business, including you?

Count part-time people as people. It is the number of conversations that matters here, not the payroll cost.

How long has it been trading?
What did most of your own week go on, last week?

Last week specifically, not a typical week. Typical weeks are always better than real ones.

If you were away for two weeks with no telephone, what would stop?
How many people can make a decision that costs real money without asking you?
Where did most of last year's revenue come from?
What happens to an enquiry that arrives on a Tuesday morning?

Not what the process says. What happened to the last one.

What has stopped working in the last year or so?

Pick the one that has cost you the most sleep.

Could you say today which of last month's jobs or customers made money?
When a job runs late, where does the time usually go?
What have you already tried?

This matters more than anything above it. Work that has already failed once is rarely worth repeating unchanged.

What would have to be true in a year for this to have been worth doing?
When would you want to start?
And where to send it

Before you start, if you would rather know

Everything this can tell you, printed in advance

There is no hidden list and no algorithm worth protecting. These are the six areas a result can name, in the words it uses, with the piece of work each one maps to. A questionnaire whose outputs you cannot read before you answer it is asking for four minutes on trust.

Direction

Several things started, none finished.

Your answers describe a business with more good ideas than finishing capacity. That is not a shortage of ambition and it is rarely a shortage of effort — it is usually that nothing has been deliberately stopped, so everything is running at the same low priority at once.

What we would suggest looking at

  • Direction reviewsix to ten days$13,200 to $22,000
  • At the published partner day$2,200 a dayover four to six weeks

That fee is the day rate multiplied by the days and nothing else. It is what the engagement costs, not what your business needs to spend.

Strategy and planning, in detail

How the work moves

Time is going somewhere and nobody can point at it.

Your answers point at the space between the steps rather than the steps themselves. Waiting, rework and double entry do not appear on anybody's timesheet, which is exactly why they are usually the largest single cost in a business of this size.

What we would suggest looking at

  • Follow the jobeight to fourteen days$14,400 to $25,200
  • At the published blended day$1,800 a dayover five to eight weeks

That fee is the day rate multiplied by the days and nothing else. It is what the engagement costs, not what your business needs to spend.

Operations and process, in detail

Dependence on you

The business needs a specific person to be in it.

Your answers describe decisions, relationships or knowledge that live with one person. That is normal at one size and dangerous at the next, and the point at which it becomes dangerous is usually about a year before anybody notices.

What we would suggest looking at

  • Roles, pay and who decidesfive to nine days$11,000 to $19,800
  • At the published partner day$2,200 a dayover four to six weeks

That fee is the day rate multiplied by the days and nothing else. It is what the engagement costs, not what your business needs to spend.

People and hiring, in detail

Where the revenue comes from

Too much of it arrives from one place.

Your answers describe revenue that depends heavily on a small number of customers, or on one way of winning work. Concentration is not automatically a problem, but it is always a decision, and it is worth making it on purpose.

What we would suggest looking at

  • Where the revenue comes fromsix to ten days$10,800 to $18,000
  • At the published blended day$1,800 a dayover four to six weeks

That fee is the day rate multiplied by the days and nothing else. It is what the engagement costs, not what your business needs to spend.

Sales and growth, in detail

Where the margin is

Busy and profitable are not the same thing here.

Your answers suggest the business is growing on the top line without the bottom line following it. The usual cause is that some part of the work is subsidising another part, and nothing in the monthly numbers is shaped to show which.

What we would suggest looking at

  • Where the margin actually isfive to nine days$11,000 to $19,800
  • At the published partner day$2,200 a dayover four to six weeks

That fee is the day rate multiplied by the days and nothing else. It is what the engagement costs, not what your business needs to spend.

Numbers and margin, in detail

What the business runs on

The information is in people, not in the business.

Your answers describe a business held together by memory, spreadsheets and one person who knows where things are. That works, right up until two people need the same answer on the same morning.

What we would suggest looking at

  • Choosing and installing a systemeight to sixteen days$14,400 to $28,800
  • At the published blended day$1,800 a dayover eight to fourteen weeks

That fee is the day rate multiplied by the days and nothing else. It is what the engagement costs, not what your business needs to spend.

Systems and software, in detail

What it cannot do

  • It reads twelve answers you gave in four minutes. That is not a diagnosis and it is not a survey of your business.
  • There is no dataset behind it. It does not know what businesses like yours typically do, because we have not measured any and would not present it as evidence if we had.
  • It does not score, rank, grade or rate. A number out of a hundred would read as a measurement, and there is nothing here to measure against.
  • It produces no figures at all: no forecast, no projection, no valuation, no estimate of what anything would be worth.
  • Two of the twelve questions change depending on your earlier answers, so two people will not necessarily see the same questionnaire.
  • It is written by us, so it points at the kinds of work we do. That is worth knowing before you read the result.

The longer version of that page

Where the answers go

Nowhere, until you press a button. The questions are answered in your own browser and the summary is worked out on your own machine. Your answers are kept in this browser so you can leave and come back, and they are put in the address bar so the link can be shared — which means anybody you send it to can see your answers, and that is worth knowing before you send it.

If you choose to send the summary at the end, what leaves your browser is your answers, the two or three areas they pointed at, and the contact details you typed. It is written to a file on the server and e-mailed to the office, and to you as well if you tick the box.

What is kept and for how long

This is a demonstration website. This is a demonstration website. Woodside Management Partners is not a real firm, no enquiry sent from this site reaches anybody, and the telephone number is a placeholder. It was built to show what a small professional firm gets for a fixed price.