FREE • ABOUT 5 MINUTES
The Executive and Assistant Partnership Health Check
A free questionnaire that an executive and their EA or PA each complete in five minutes, then compare side by side.
Most executive and assistant partnerships are not held back by capability. They are held back by the things both people assume have been agreed, and never quite were. The health check asks each of you the same questions across six areas, gives you a result, and then lets you swap codes and see, statement by statement, where you are aligned and where you are assuming different things.
What the health check is
The Executive and Assistant Partnership Health Check is a free questionnaire for executives and their EAs or PAs, built by eavolve as a developmental reflection tool. It is not an assessment of either person. It is a structured way for an executive and the EA, PA or Business Assistant who supports them to find out what has genuinely been discussed and agreed between them, and what each of them has been quietly assuming.
How it works
- Choose your version. There is one set of questions for the executive and one for the assistant, so each of you answers from your own side of the desk.
- Answer honestly, in about five minutes. The statements cover six areas of the partnership: strategic time and capacity, communication and working preferences, trust, judgement and autonomy, priorities and decision-making, stakeholders and organisational nuance, and feedback, boundaries and safe challenge.
- Get your result. You see where your side of the partnership is strong and where it is running on assumption.
- Swap codes and compare. When the other person has completed theirs, you compare answers statement by statement. That conversation is the point of the tool.
Who it is for
- An EA or PA who suspects the partnership could be better but cannot put a finger on why.
- An executive who wants to get more from the person supporting them and does not know where to start.
- A pair who have just started working together and want to set the terms early, which is why it sits so well alongside our guide to the first ninety days.
- EA managers and L&D teams who want a light, honest way to open the conversation across several partnerships.
What happens afterwards
You can ask for the free partnership workbook by email, book a complimentary review with Emily Partridge to talk the results through, or simply have the conversation the comparison points you towards. Your answers are never shared with the other person without your clear consent.
Questions people ask
Yes. It is a developmental reflection tool we built for executives and assistants, and there is nothing to pay. It takes about five minutes to complete.
No, you can complete your version on your own and get your result. The comparison only works if both of you complete it, because that is where you see, statement by statement, what has actually been agreed and what is still being assumed. Each of you gets a code to swap.
Your answers are yours. We never show one person’s answers to the other without clear consent, and the tool is not a formal assessment of anyone’s performance or suitability, so it should not be used to make employment decisions.
A result for your version of the partnership across six areas, a comparison with your executive or assistant if you both complete it, the option of a free partnership workbook by email, and a complimentary review with Emily Partridge if you would like to talk it through.
