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Is communication costing your team?

I work with a lot of strong teams whose expertise gets lost in meetings, client work and cross-border calls. This check shows where that's happening in yours, and roughly what it costs.

Your team

Share of the team working in English as a second language
Main context

How often does this happen?

  1. 1. Capable people stay quiet in meetings with senior stakeholders.
  2. 2. Clients or partners ask for things to be explained again.
  3. 3. Proposals or updates are technically strong but don't persuade.
  4. 4. Promotions go to stronger communicators rather than the strongest experts.
  5. 5. Emails need several rounds to resolve simple issues.
  6. 6. Team members avoid presenting or speaking at external events.
  7. 7. Cross-border meetings run long without clear decisions.
  8. 8. Feedback is avoided or diluted.
  9. 9. People rely on one or two colleagues to speak for the team.
  10. 10. Strong individual work goes unnoticed by leadership.

Complete the team details and all ten statements to see the result.

A quick self-check to get you thinking — not a validated psychometric test.