Shadow 360

What does your behaviour teach the organisation?

More than your strategy deck does. If you check every detail, your leaders learn to check every detail. If your late-night email gets answered in five minutes, people learn that late nights are expected. Your habits become the company’s rules, whether you write them down or not.

Take Shadow 360: fourteen questions, about five minutes. Answer for the last month.

What does the test look at?

Four signals of our own, three or four questions each:

• Mood. How your mood is read, and how far it travels.
• Attention. Whether what you ask about matches what you say matters.
• What you praise. Whether your praise teaches people what to repeat.
• What you tolerate. Whether people can tell what you won’t let pass.

What do I get at the end?

A shadow profile with all four signals ranked, your clearest signal, with what it does well and its trade-off, and the signal most likely misread, each with one thing to try on Monday. The signal names are our own and still a draft.

Shadow 360 is built for your leadership team to rate you anonymously. Team mode is coming. For now, you rate yourself.

How is it worked out?

Each signal has three or four questions, answered from 1 (never) to 5 (always). Four of the fourteen describe a habit that muddies the signal, such as “A passing question from me sets off a week of work”, and are flipped before scoring. Each signal’s average is compared; the bars show all four.

The questions, signals and advice are a draft written with AI and are waiting for a coach’s review. Treat the result as a mirror, not a verdict.

What should I read or take next?

Read how leaders influence culture without meaning to. How far your mood travels is the subject of how far emotional contagion at work spreads, and The Echo Chamber shows how much truth gets back to you. Every tool for this stage is on the CXOs page.