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How Consistently Are Your Stores Set Up to Perform?

Strong stores rarely happen by accident. This assessment gives retail leaders a practical starting point for looking at the leadership, execution and operating conditions that may be helping some stores perform more consistently than others.

Take the Assessment
  1. 01Rate 24 statements across six areas of store performance.
  2. 02See your score for each area and your total as soon as you finish.
  3. 03Use your strongest and lowest areas to decide where to look more closely.

Your Best Stores Are Already Giving You Clues.

When performance varies significantly across a store fleet, the answer is rarely one isolated metric. Leadership behaviors, operating clarity, accountability, coaching, execution and the day-to-day store environment can all influence what customers and teams experience.

The Store Performance Assessment™ is designed to help you step back from individual symptoms and look more deliberately at the conditions surrounding store performance.

What the Assessment Helps You Examine

  • How consistently expectations are translated into store-level execution
  • Whether field and store leaders have the clarity and support they need
  • Where accountability and follow-through may be inconsistent
  • Whether operating practices are helping strong performance become repeatable
  • Which areas may deserve a closer look

Who It’s For

  • Retail executives responsible for multi-location performance
  • Heads and VPs of Stores
  • COOs and senior operators
  • Field leaders responsible for multiple locations
  • Growing retail organizations trying to create more consistent execution

Take the Assessment

The Store Performance Assessment™

Your results appear on screen as soon as you finish. You don’t need to share any personal information to see them. This is a self-directed starting point, not a diagnosis.

The assessment takes place on its own page.

Work through six short sections at your own pace. You can go back and change any answer before you see your results, and print or save them at the end.

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Two Different Starting Points

Assessment vs. Store Performance Diagnostic

These two offers work together, but they are not interchangeable. The Assessment helps you identify what deserves attention. The Store Performance Diagnostic is where Running Great Stores looks deeper at the business context, leadership, operating systems and execution behind the issue.

Store Performance Assessment™
Self-directed starting point
Helps a leader examine patterns and questions
A free, low-commitment place to start
Useful for initial reflection
Can lead to content, resources or next steps
Store Performance Diagnostic
Deeper RGS engagement
Examines what may actually be driving performance inconsistency
An advisory engagement with Running Great Stores
Designed for a more substantive organizational look
Can lead to targeted recommendations and deeper work

Need to Look Deeper?

Store Performance Diagnostic

If the assessment raises questions about why performance varies across locations, Running Great Stores can help examine the operating and leadership conditions behind the pattern.

Explore the Store Performance Diagnostic

Additional Next Steps

Common Questions About the Assessment