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. A SignalCheck measures it in 45 minutes.

Taking a SignalCheck as an individual? Start here.

The session

45 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.

A SignalCheck runs 45 minutes in three parts, delivered by the instrument so that every person meets identical conditions. How delivery works is explained in full on the delivery page.

45 minutes total

The separator

The first language question, read with everything else

Asked early in every session

Does this happen in your first language too?

The diagnostic tests whether the same pattern appears in your first language. That evidence separates a language gap from a pressure habit, and it is read together with the rest of the session. The pause, the long answer that never reaches the point, the sentence that starts with an apology. A habit under pressure can change. A language level takes much longer.

“No, speaking native language, I don’t have those feelings.”
Team lead, 13 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 appear as Clarity, Structure, Confidence Markers, Translation Lag and Authenticity. Those are the report’s formal terms. Everywhere else, the plain names above are used, because the plain names are the ones a team can talk about.

The free instrument

Where SignalScan fits

Clarity Not scored in the free SignalScan
Structure Not scored in the free SignalScan
Confidence under pressure 54 Emerging
Thinking and responding quickly 49 Emerging
Natural delivery Not scored in the free SignalScan

A SignalScan scores two of these five: Translation Lag and Confidence Markers. These two score reliably from a 5-minute sample. The other three need more content to judge properly. That is why the free version stops at two, and why a full SignalCheck takes 45 minutes.

Method and responsibility

What the instrument does, and what it does not

Standardised

The same scenarios, delivered the same way every time

The scenarios, their order, the timing and the review rules are fixed.

Reviewed

A person reviews every report before it is delivered

The reviewer checks the automated output against the session and can override it.

Bounded

It reports observable patterns

It does not judge personality, technical ability or language level.

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. It never names an individual.

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.

Not ready for a call? Take the free SignalScan first. 5 minutes, two of your five dimensions scored. It opens in August. Join the list