Equinexus Partners

Are you seeing yourself clearly enough to solve the problems you are trying to solve?

SIGHTLINE is a rapid institutional visibility assessment from Equinexus Partners. Around twelve minutes, one full report, and the one question worth settling before any other diagnostic can be trusted.

Arranged with Equinexus Partners·About twelve minutes·Full report on screen

The prior question

Most institutions work on the wrong question first.

They commission strategies. They restructure. They replace leaders and launch culture programmes. All of it assumes the organisation already sees itself clearly enough to act on what it is about to be told.

That assumption is usually untested, and it is often wrong. SIGHTLINE tests it.

What it is not

This is not another survey.

Not a culture survey

Culture surveys record how people feel. SIGHTLINE looks at whether the organisation people think they belong to is the one that actually exists.

Not an engagement diagnostic

Engagement diagnostics measure how people feel about the organisation. SIGHTLINE asks whether that organisation exists as described.

Not a health check

Health checks measure performance. SIGHTLINE measures the accuracy of the perception that performance depends on.

What it measures
SIGHTLINE does not measure how clearly you see. It measures the distance between how clearly you believe you see and how clearly you do.That distance is the finding.

A high score on its own is not good news. A high score sitting on top of a wide gap is the most common and most expensive position there is.

The Seven Sightlines

Seven lines of sight. One field of vision.

01
Governance

Whether you see how authority and accountability actually work, not how they are described.

02
History

Whether you hold an honest, shared account of your own past.

03
Trust

Whether you can see the trust that exists, not the trust that is performed.

04
Legitimacy

Whether you know the difference between authority assumed and authority granted.

05
Identity

Whether who you say you are matches how you behave.

06
Narrative

Whether the story you tell matches the evidence.

07
Energy

Whether you can see where your attention and effort actually go.

What you receive

A reading, not a score.

  • Your Stated Visibility and your Enacted Visibility, set side by side.
  • The Coherence Gap between them, named and located.
  • A profile across all seven Sightlines, ranked by where the gap is widest.
  • The distortions most active beneath the surface.
  • Your underlying state, and a clear first step.
Who it is for

For people who are about to make a consequential decision.

Chief executives entering a new institution. Executive teams aligning before a strategy. Boards that suspect the picture reaching them is not the whole picture. Foundation and university leaders who carry the weight of getting it right. SIGHTLINE is most useful at the moments when seeing clearly matters most.

The architecture

SIGHTLINE is the entry point, not the destination.

Step 1
Borrowed Mirrors

names the condition.

Step 2
SIGHTLINE

shows whether the distortions are active, and where.

Step 3
Contextual Coherence System

diagnoses the forces producing them.

Step 4
Equinexus Advisory

helps you act on what becomes visible.

SIGHTLINE is not a lite version of anything. It answers the prior question, so the deeper work can be trusted.

Take SIGHTLINE

Take SIGHTLINE.

Around twelve minutes. Twenty-two questions. A full written report on screen as soon as you finish. SIGHTLINE is arranged directly with Equinexus Partners and accessed via a secure link.

Take SIGHTLINE

Your responses are private to you. Your report is ready as soon as you finish.