The diagnostic

A diagnostic, not a lesson.

Most people who struggle in English meetings do not have an English problem. They have a performance problem that only shows up in English.

The session

Thirty minutes. No test, nothing to revise.

A SignalCheck is a live conversation. It starts easy, then adds pressure on purpose. A senior stakeholder arrives. A deadline is questioned. A decision is challenged in front of other people. Those are the moments where performance actually breaks, so those are the moments that are measured.

In the room, the diagnosis is spoken plainly and in words anyone can act on. The scores are not read out. They belong in the written report, where they have been reviewed by a SignalCheck expert.

The separator

One question separates a language gap from a performance gap

Asked early in every session

Does this happen in your first language too?

Very often the answer is yes. The pause, the long answer that never reaches the point, the sentence that starts with an apology. That is a habit under pressure, not a gap in the language. It matters, because a habit can change quickly. A language cannot.

"No, speaking native language, I don't have those feelings."
Team lead, thirteen years at a global technology company, asked whether the same pressure exists in his first language
What is measured

Five dimensions of communication under pressure

The same five are scored in every session, using the same bands. General advice cannot do that. You leave a conversation with an impression, and an impression cannot be measured, repeated, or handed to anyone as a plan.

In the written report these five are recorded as Clarity, Structure, Confidence Markers, Translation Lag and Authenticity. Those are the report terms. Everywhere else the plain names above are used.

What you receive

A written report, reviewed before it reaches you

Every SignalCheck ends with a written report. It names the strength, the gap, and the one change that will move the most, in plain language you can act on the same week. For a team engagement each person receives their own report, and the leader receives the signal map on top of it. The map shows patterns across the group and never names individuals.

See the whole thing annotated on the report.

Take a SignalCheck, and see the five.

A short conversation first, so we can tell you whether a SignalCheck is the right fit. If it is not, we will say so.