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Level 2. Scores 51 to 75. You mostly agree, with one gap specific enough to close.
You and the people you asked mostly agree, with one or two dimensions where you do not. This is the result to hope for when you ask an honest set of raters, and it is the most useful one, because the disagreement is specific enough to act on and small enough to close.
Find the dimension with the largest gap. It is marked above. That is not a verdict on your leadership; it is the one place where what you think you are doing and what they experience have come apart. On Clarity, that usually means you believe you have said something that they did not hear as a decision.
On Listening, it usually means you believe people can tell you that you are wrong and they have decided it is not worth it. On Follow-through, it usually means you remember the things you closed and they remember the things you did not. On Growth, it usually means the feedback you think you give often arrives, from their side, once a year.
Then read the direction line on your results screen. If you rate yourself higher than they do on the dimension with the biggest gap, that is the classic blind spot shape; the fix is not to rate yourself lower, it is to find out what they are seeing that you are not.
If they rate you higher than you rate yourself, you have a hidden strength you are not using because you do not believe you have it. If the gaps run in both directions, different raters probably see different things, so look at the spread notes on the results screen.
The gap I see most often is Listening, and it runs in one direction. The leader believes people can tell them they are wrong. The team has quietly decided it is not worth the cost. Nobody lied. They just stopped trying.
How I open it with the team is one sentence at the start of the next team meeting: "I asked for feedback, and on listening you see me lower than I see myself. I want to understand it." After that, the only answer the leader is allowed to give is thank you. That is not politeness. It is the whole test. The first time you defend, the room learns that the feedback was a trap, and the next round comes back cleaner and less true.
What to do this week: take the largest gap dimension and ask one of the people who rated you, without asking who rated you, "what would I have to do differently for you to score me higher on this?" Ask it in a one on one, not by message, and do not defend. Write down the answer.
Next step: the one on one is where most gaps close. Score yours with the 1:1 meeting builder.
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The other results
- In StepThey see you as you see yourself. Now ask a harder room.
- Out of StepA real gap on more than one dimension. It stings and works.
- Different RoomsYou and your raters are describing two different leaders.
About this result
This is one of 4 results from the Blind Spot 360 Lite, a free tool that shows the score without an email. Aggregate figures are at the statistics page once 30 completions have been reached. More free tools are at the tools shelf.