HR Diagnostic Audit Toolkit: find why workforce problems happen
HR Diagnostic Audit Toolkit

Find out why a workforce problem is happening, not only that it is.

An integrated HR audit, diagnosis and analytics workbench. Every question tells you where the evidence lives and how to work it out, so findings rest on records and interviews rather than guesses.

Unplanned absenteeism rate Analytics

Where to get the dataAttendance and leave system. How to calculate itUnplanned absence days / scheduled working days × 100. Exclude approved annual and statutory leave. Common errorsCounting planned leave; recording only long absences.
Value3.8 %
Evidence confidenceMedium
Evidence sourceHRIS attendance export
Scoring ruleLevel 3 at or below 4%
Level 3Adequate but inconsistent

Example entry shown for illustration.

Three questions, one engagement

Most HR reviews stop at a satisfaction survey. The toolkit works through three layers for every topic, then ties them to business impact.

Audit

Are HR policies, processes, controls and practices working as intended?

Diagnosis

Why is the problem occurring, what does it cost the business, and which intervention is likely to help?

Analytics

What do workforce data and trends show about the problem and its likely consequences?

Every input comes with a method

Each of the 74 questions has a “How to arrive at this” panel, so a first-time user can fill it in properly:

  1. What it means, in plain language
  2. Why it matters to the business
  3. Where to get the data: system, record or document
  4. How to calculate it, with a worked example
  5. A step-by-step method
  6. The type of evidence required
  7. Common errors to avoid
  8. Benchmark guidance, flagged as your own assumption

Percentage questions can calculate themselves from a numerator and denominator.

Ten modules, 74 questions

Use all ten for a full diagnostic, or start with the three that matter most to the business.

Workforce Health7 questions

Staffing, productivity, overtime, absence, workload distribution.

Leadership Effectiveness10 questions

Competency, 360 feedback, decision quality, team results.

Engagement & Retention8 questions

Engagement, voluntary and regretted attrition, stay interviews.

Organizational Culture7 questions

Psychological safety, trust, speak-up climate, accountability.

Talent & Competency Gap7 questions

Competency gaps, skills inventory, learning transfer, mobility.

Performance Management7 questions

Goal clarity, rating consistency, feedback, incentive alignment.

Change Readiness7 questions

Confidence, capability, stakeholder alignment, adoption barriers.

Workload, Stress & Wellbeing7 questions

Workload, role clarity, recovery, psychosocial risk, at group level.

Succession & Critical Talent Risk7 questions

Ready successors, time to fill, single-person dependencies.

HR Governance & Compliance7 questions

Control failures, policy exceptions, case resolution, pay equity.

Reports a board can read

Nothing is generated until the client, the business problem and at least one evidenced item are in place.

A PDF for each module

Inputs with evidence source and confidence, maturity score, root-cause hypotheses, impact with assumptions, interventions, baseline and targets.

Blank worksheets

The full guidance and answer lines for every module, to use offline with a client.

Integrated board report

Overall maturity, heat map, strengths and vulnerabilities, financial consequences, ranked priorities and a 30/60/90-day roadmap.

The executive view and roadmap are built only from what you enter. The toolkit shows how priorities are ranked, and you can change the weights.

Scores that show how much evidence stands behind them

Evidence confidence is reported separately from the maturity score, so a lack of data is never mistaken for poor performance. Questions without evidence are marked “Insufficient evidence” and left out of averages, not scored as zero.

Scoring thresholds, question weights, module weights, level names and the weakness cut-off are all editable in Settings, and you can add your own questions. Reports update to match.

Built for confidential HR data

The toolkit runs entirely in your browser. There is no server, tracking or account, and nothing leaves your device. Export a JSON backup to move work between devices.

Guardrails are part of the design: individual psychological assessments stay confidential, personality and wellbeing scores are never a standalone basis for employment decisions, and hypotheses are labelled as hypotheses.

Try it here

This is the live toolkit. Start on the Engagement screen, then open a module.

Entries are saved in this browser only. Use Reports, then Export JSON, to keep a backup.

Start a diagnostic for your organisation

Bring one business problem, such as rising attrition, missed targets or weak leadership delivery. We will scope the modules that matter and work from your records.

ISO 30414, SHRM, CIPD and Gallup are used as reference points only. The toolkit is not certified or endorsed by these organisations and is not identical to any company’s internal methodology. The maturity scale is a custom scale, not an ISO or SHRM scoring system.