This is not an employee satisfaction survey. It is a structured read of whether your executive team behaves as one leadership team — and of where the leadership system, not the people, is the constraint.
Can your executive team collectively carry the business where it needs to go next without unnecessary dependency on the CEO?
Answer every item, then see your result. Your score, profile, and pattern are revealed on screen only after the final question — nothing is shown along the way, so answer each item on its own terms.
Six fields, then one question. The question is asked again at the end.
Baseline is your first time through. Choose 90-day or 180-day when you re-run the check later, so the two results can be compared. Direction matters more than level.
Confidentiality. Your individual results are seen only by the two principals of First Team First™ — not by your board, your team, or any third party. Responses are held securely and used, in aggregate and without identifying you, to keep improving the instrument.
If you were unavailable for the next 90 days, how confident are you that this executive team would run the business — not simply cover for you — without unnecessary dependency on you?
How much of the executive team’s operating load is being carried by you?
Six items, answered Rarely, Occasionally, or Frequently. Not part of the 100-point score; these items produce a separate CEO Load index that is read alongside your result.
If you were unavailable for the next 90 days, how confident are you that this executive team would run the business — not simply cover for you — without unnecessary dependency on you?