Functions as a Lead Magnet
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When you think about the last career outcome that did not go your way, a promotion, a role, a recognition you expected, which of these is closest to what you think actually happened?
A. The decision was made before the formal process began, in conversations you were not part of.
B. You were considered seriously, but someone else was a better fit on paper or in the room.
C. You are not sure. The reasons you were given did not quite add up.
If a senior leader two levels above you were asked to describe what you do, in one sentence, what would they say?
A. They would describe your role accurately but generically, with no specific sense of what makes you good at it.
B. They would describe a version of you that is a few years out of date.
C. They would not be able to describe you at all. They might not know who you are.
When a new opportunity comes up in your organization or your network, a stretch role, a high-visibility project, a chance to step up, where do you usually find out about it?
A. After it has been filled, when someone tells you.
B. During the formal process, when it is announced internally or posted.
C. Before it is formal, through someone who thought of you for it.
Which of these statements is closest to true for you right now?
A. I am working as hard as I can and it does not seem to be translating into the trajectory I expected.
B. I am ready for a change but I cannot quite articulate what the next move should be, or how to make it.
C. I am in a process, interviewing, applying, exploring, and I am not landing where I think I should be landing.
When you describe what you do, to a senior peer or someone in a hiring position, what do you notice afterward?
A. hey seem to understand what you do, but the conversation does not lead anywhere.
B. They ask polite follow-up questions but you sense they have not really registered you.
C. They give you a version of yourself back that does not match how you see your own work.
If you imagine the rooms where decisions about your career are being made, promotion conversations, hiring debriefs, succession discussions, which is closest to true?
A. I have a rough idea who is in those rooms but no sense of what they say about me.
B. I am not sure those rooms exist for me. I do not know who is having those conversations.
C. I know who is in those rooms and I suspect what gets said is not quite right but I do not know how to change it.
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