a 40-person engineering team
Skills report
Each bar counts the people whose diagnostic named that skill as the one costing them most. One skill per person, so the bars add up to everyone who has finished.
Why some are withheld. 3 people's skills came up in groups of fewer than three. Naming those would identify them, so they are counted but not labelled. The total is still correct.
What to do about it
56% of the people who finished are blocked on Impact or Positioning. Those two are where a manager’s effort goes furthest.
- Impact6 peopleBefore your next promotion round, ask these people to write one page on what changed because of their work, not what they did. Most will find they can't, which is the point.
- Positioning4 peopleAsk each of them how they'd want to be described in a room they're not in, then compare that with how you'd describe them.
You cannot open a bar to see who is in it
There’s no drill-down, and there won’t be. Your people answered honestly because this report can’t be traced back to them, and adding a way through would make every future set of answers worse. If you want to talk to someone about their own result, ask them. They have it.