Organisation design review
Assesses the current structure against stated design principles, highlighting spans and layers that merit closer scrutiny. Provides evidence for discussions about structural change.
— Organisation & Workforce
Org Diagnostic
Assesses spans of control, organisational layers and managerial load to produce an evidence-backed diagnostic of reporting structures and their likely effects on decision speed and cost.
- Organisation & Workforce
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1–2 weeks → ~15 minutes
For one complete, review-ready pass
No coding required
- Input
- Organisation chart or HR data extract
- Output
- Organisation diagnostic report
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1–2 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Org Diagnostic for
Management cost assessment
Identifies single-report managers, narrow spans and potentially excessive layers that may contribute to management cost. Makes the supporting counts explicit without treating every flagged role as unnecessary.
Decision speed concerns
Highlights overloaded managers, deep reporting chains and dual or unclear reporting lines. Explains their likely implications for decision speed and accountability.
Reporting structure validation
Examines reporting relationships for ambiguity and structural inconsistencies. Distinguishes clear findings from areas where the available data limits the assessment.
What it works from
- Organisation chart or HR data extract
- Person or role records with manager and team relationships
- Stated organisation design principles
What you get back
- Organisation diagnostic report
- Spans of control, organisational depth and managerial load analysis
- Explicit counts supporting structural findings
- Narrow and overloaded span findings, including single-report managers counterexamples and single-report managers
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Org Diagnostic produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Composed as work product
Findings on the organisation in scope are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a role.
Delivered as a working table
The roles land as a clean table you can sort, filter or drop straight into the deliverable.
Criteria-based analysis of every role
Each role is assessed against explicit criteria you control, so the same standard is applied across the organisation in scope on every run.
Grounded in your own org data, role documentation and headcount exports
The run works from org data, role documentation and headcount exports you supply, so conclusions about the organisation in scope are anchored to your evidence rather than general model knowledge.
Why this is expensive by hand
Organisation reviews often rely on charts that show reporting relationships but obscure management burden, structural complexity and unclear accountability. Organisation design review is the typical trigger — assesses the current structure against stated design principles, highlighting spans and layers that merit closer scrutiny. Provides evidence for discussions about structural change. Get it right and the conclusion holds up in the room; get it rushed and it gets picked apart. Either way it costs roughly 1–2 weeks of experienced attention.
How this Skill produces it
Skillsize turns that work into a Skill: you supply the material, and what comes back is organisation diagnostic report, with spans of control, organisational depth and managerial load analysis. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. In effect, 1–2 weeks of senior time compresses into ~15 minutes — and the output is comparable across clients, quarters and colleagues instead of shaped by whoever ran it.
Who it's for
- Org design and workforce planning leads
- COOs and functional leaders reshaping teams
- Transformation consultants sizing people impact
- HR business partners supporting redesign
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Org Diagnostic exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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