How do you give feedback when it's hard?
Twenty-four either-or choices. No agree-or-disagree scale, because everyone believes they give good feedback — here you pick which of two statements is more like you, and the profile comes out of what you actually chose.
- Length
- 24 choices
- Time
- About 4 minutes
- You get
- Your home style and how to flex
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There are no better and worse styles here. Useful feedback needs truth, care, understanding and timing — and almost nobody delivers all four at once. What you get back is your home style, how it lands on the far side, and what borrowing from the other three looks like in practice. It's a snapshot of a default, not a label.
Nothing you answer is recorded. Your answers stay in this browser — not with us, not with your employer, not with anyone. The only thing that reaches us is the email address you type above. At the end you can print your result or save it as a PDF, and that copy is the only one that will exist.
Your home style
What you tend to do, what it gives the other person, and how it can land.
Borrow from the other three
Small, specific things to try. Not a personality change — a behaviour, once, on purpose.
Why this isn't a label
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Useful feedback requires truth, care, understanding, and timing.
No one supplies all four equally, which is exactly why flexibility is the skill rather than the personality. Your home style is where you go by default — most reliably when you're tired, under pressure, or on the wrong side of a relationship you care about.
Take this again in six months, or after a role change, and expect a different answer. That isn't the instrument being unreliable; it's you having more than one register. The useful question is never "which one am I" but "which one does this person need, and can I get there on purpose?"
The other three styles
Worth knowing well enough to recognise in other people — and to reach for when a conversation needs something you don't naturally bring.