Know Exactly Where a Business Stands — and What to Do First.
FAST Foundations gave you the map. FAST Diagnostics teaches you to read it accurately for a specific business. The gap between understanding a framework and using it to produce a precise, honest diagnosis is what this course closes.
The FAST Matrix in practice.
The FAST Matrix is the diagnostic tool at the centre of this course. It reads any business across four dimensions — Growth, Productivity, Profitability, and Culture — at its current stage of development. Understanding the framework is one thing. Knowing how to work through it systematically, distinguish evidence from perception, and turn a completed assessment into a clear set of priorities is the skill this course builds.
From a general sense that something is wrong to a specific, honest picture of what needs to change.
Read the business, not just the symptoms.
Most diagnoses stop at the presenting problem — the revenue that has plateaued, the team that is not performing, the margin that keeps compressing. FAST Diagnostics teaches you to look beneath the symptom to the structural cause: where the business is genuinely strong, where it is fragile, and why the two are often not what leadership assumes.
Evidence over perception.
The most common diagnostic mistake is rating a business based on how confident the leader feels rather than what the evidence shows. This course builds the discipline of separating the two — asking what specifically supports a positive rating, and what would change the assessment if it turned out to be wrong.
A diagnosis that drives action.
A list of problems is not a diagnosis. A diagnosis names the priorities, explains the relationships between them, and points clearly to what needs to happen first. You will learn how to synthesise an assessment into a narrative that is specific enough to act on — and honest enough to be trusted.
The RAG system
Learn the Red, Amber, Green assessment framework at the core of every FAST diagnostic. Understand what makes a rating credible, why the justification matters more than the colour, and how disagreement about a rating is often the most useful output a diagnostic produces.
A repeatable assessment process
Work through the full FAST Matrix dimension by dimension — a structured, step-by-step process you can apply to any business at any stage. The course includes a fully worked example across all four pillars, so the process is visible before you attempt it yourself.
The difference between a leader's view and the business's reality
One of the most valuable things a diagnostic produces is the gap between where a leader believes the business is strong and where the evidence actually points. This course develops the skill of surfacing that gap — specifically, respectfully, and in a way that produces clarity rather than defensiveness.
A diagnostic narrative
Numbers and ratings alone do not produce decisions. The final part of this course covers how to read the patterns in a completed assessment, construct the narrative that explains what they mean, and identify the priority that makes every other priority easier to address.
The foundation for the pathway work
A completed FAST Diagnostics assessment is the starting point for every pathway course. You will finish this course knowing not just how to produce a diagnosis, but how to use it — which pathway to enter, which stage to address, and why the sequence matters.
Who should attend:
Leaders and executives who have completed FAST Foundations and are ready to apply the framework to a real business situation — moving from conceptual understanding to a practical, working assessment.
HR directors and operational leaders preparing to enter the FAST pathway — who want to understand the full diagnostic methodology before beginning pathway work, so the assessment informs the right starting point.
L&D professionals and internal coaches who are supporting leadership teams through strategic planning or performance challenges, and need a diagnostic tool that produces collective clarity rather than individual opinion.
Coaches and consultants who want a structured, repeatable process for assessing any business — producing a diagnosis that is specific, evidenced, and directly connected to a clear set of priorities and next steps.
Ready to start?
FAST Diagnostics is free. Start now and develop the skill that turns a framework into a diagnosis — and a diagnosis into a clear set of priorities.
Invite a friend.
Know a leader or coach who understands the FAST framework but struggles to translate it into a specific, actionable diagnosis? Share this course — it’s free, and it closes that gap directly.