Free · 6 minutes · 15 situations
How good a leader am I?
Nobody tells the manager how they’re doing. The team just goes quiet, or leaves. Find out what’s working before that happens.
15 everyday situations from a manager’s week.
Pick what you’d actually do. About six minutes.
- A score out of 10 for each of the five leadership skills
- Next steps and a line to say from our AI coach (your first one free)
- Mapped to the CMI Professional Standard and the Level 5 manager standard
Already leading a team. The quiet one in meetings? The two who clash? The one who does everything? Nobody tells you how you’re doing. This does.
Your leadership result
Each area is scored out of 10. Strong 8–10 · Good 6–7 · Mixed 4–5 · Gap 0–3
What your answers show
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Your coach’s next steps
What your result can’t show: the habit behind your choices, and what to do about it.
Writing your next steps…
The habit behind your answers
Where it’ll show up next
Your three steps
What to say
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Written by our AI coach from your five scores and the habit behind each answer. Your answer text is not sent.
Practise it before it’s real
Have this conversation with an AI character who pushes back the way people do, then get feedback on how it went.
Practise this conversationYour first go at each conversation is free. After that, one credit a go (packs from £3).
A self-assessment for reflection, not a formal qualification check or a hiring tool.
Nobody tells the manager how they’re doing
You run the team. You do the rota, cover the gaps, deal with the customer who wants the manager, and hit most of the numbers most of the time. Nobody says you’re doing a bad job. Nobody says you’re doing a good one either. The team just goes a bit quieter, or someone hands their notice in and says it’s nothing personal.
That silence is the only feedback most managers get. CMI research found that 82% of people who enter management have had no formal management and leadership training, and the ones who did get it rarely get a second look once they’re in the job. This assessment is that second look.
It takes about six minutes: 15 everyday situations from a manager’s week, four honest answers each. The quiet one in meetings, the two who clash, the new starter nobody trains, the team that nods and does nothing. You get a score for each of the five leadership skills below, and the one gap worth working on first.
Written by Nelson Fernandes, CMI Level 5 in Management and Leadership.
The five leadership skills it checks
The five areas follow the CMI Professional Standard for managers and England’s Level 5 Operations or departmental manager apprenticeship standard (ST0385), the standard behind a lot of manager training. They’re the skills a team feels every day, whether or not anyone names them.
- Motivation
- Noticing what people do well, saying so, and spotting the ones who are quietly running out of steam.
- Communication
- Saying what you know and what you don’t, hearing the quiet ones, and making handovers and messages land.
- Trust
- Doing what you said, dealing with clashes early, and making it safe to bring you bad news.
- Coaching
- Growing the people around you instead of fixing their work: the new starter, the supervisor who checks everything with you.
- Performance management
- Looking behind a missed target, raising slipping work early and fairly, and holding the bare-minimum to the same bar as everyone else.
Most managers are strong in two or three of these. The gap is usually the one that doesn’t show up on a dashboard: the quiet person nobody asked, or the slip nobody mentioned.
Signs your leadership skills are working, and signs they’re not
Working
- People bring you mistakes while they’re still small.
- The quiet ones speak in your meetings, because you ask and then wait.
- Your supervisors make calls without you, and tell you afterwards.
Not working
- You find out people are unhappy from their notice, or from someone else.
- The team nods at what you ask for, and nothing changes.
- The same person does everything, and you haven’t asked them how they’re doing.
None of the “not working” signs means you’re a bad manager. It means one of the five skills has slipped, and that’s the one to practise first.
Using your result in a one-to-one with your own manager
Most managers get asked how their team is doing. Far fewer get asked how they are doing as a leader, so take the question in yourself. Your result gives you an honest answer in three parts.
- Your strongest area, with one example from the last month. Not “I’m good with people” but “when Jack sent the wrong price list, he came to me first.”
- Your gap, in plain words. “My team goes quiet in meetings and I’ve been letting it.”
- What you’re doing about it, this week. One small habit, not a course.
Plenty of managers say the team is fine. Far fewer can say exactly where they’re letting it down, and what they’re changing. That’s the conversation that gets you noticed, and it’s the one your team would thank you for if they could.
If you’d rather know what your team would actually say, join the waitlist below. The team version is next.
Questions people ask
Is the assessment free?
Yes. Your scores are free every time, with nothing to pay and no email or sign-up needed to see your result. You also get one free personal read from our AI coach, on whichever assessment you do first. After that, each new read uses one credit (packs from 10 for £3 to 100 for £20), and one code works for your whole team.
How long does it take?
About six minutes. There are 15 situations, one per screen, and you can go back and change an answer before you move on.
Is this a formal qualification?
No. It’s a self-assessment for reflection. The five areas are mapped to the CMI Professional Standard and England’s Level 5 Operations or departmental manager standard, but neither body endorses it, and it isn’t a hiring tool.
What happens to my answers?
Nothing you answer is stored. Your answers are scored in one go and dropped, and your scores live only in the page’s web address. To write your personal read, our AI coach gets your five scores and the habit behind each answer (for example "passed it up the line"), never the answer text, and it does not keep them. To know you’ve had your free read without an account, your browser keeps a random number (no name, no email), and we keep a scrambled marker of it and your connection for a year.
What do Strong, Good, Mixed and Gap mean?
Each area is scored out of 10. Strong is 8 to 10, Good is 6 to 7, Mixed is 4 to 5 and Gap is 0 to 3. Your headline names the lowest area, because that is the one to work on first.
How is this different from the Leadership Style Quiz and the Leadership Diagnostic?
The Leadership Style Quiz tells you how you lead: your type. The Leadership Diagnostic takes one live problem with one person and gives you three lines to say. This one scores five leadership skills across your whole week, so you can see what’s working and what to change first.
I’m not leading a team yet. Is this for me?
Not yet. It’s built for people already running a team. If you’re thinking about your first step up, start with the Supervisor Readiness Assessment, and if you already cover for the manager, the Manager Readiness Assessment.
Want to know what your team would say?
A team version is next: your team answers the same five areas about you, and you see the two side by side. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when it opens.
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