Set The Tone
The Speak-Up Test

You think your team speaks up. Find out if they agree.

Five anonymous sentences. A radar chart showing where your team feels safe to speak up and where they don't. Plus a gap analysis that compares what you think with what they actually experience.

5 sentences 2 minutes Anonymous Free
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No email required. Completely anonymous. Results in under a minute.

The blind spot

Most managers think they're approachable. Their team disagrees.

Google's Project Aristotle studied 180 teams and found that psychological safety was the number one predictor of team performance. Not talent. Not resources. Whether people felt safe enough to speak up.

If you're a founder or MD
Your managers think their door is open. Their team disagrees.

Most managers overestimate how safe their team feels to speak up. The gap between perception and reality is where good people leave, problems stay hidden, and culture quietly rots. This test gives you a way to see what's actually happening inside your teams, without relying on your managers' self-assessment.

If you're a manager
You can't fix what nobody tells you about.

If your team doesn't feel safe challenging ideas, flagging problems, or admitting mistakes, you're managing with one eye closed. This test shows you where the silence is, so you can do something about it before it costs you good people.

How it works

Three steps. Five minutes total.

1

Set up your team

Enter your name and team name. We generate a unique team code and a shareable link you send to your team.

2

Your team responds anonymously

They rate five sentences on a 1-5 scale. Takes two minutes. No names, no emails, no tracking. You rate the same five sentences from your perspective as manager.

3

See the truth

A radar chart of your team's psychological safety across five dimensions. Colour-coded scores. And a gap analysis showing where your perception doesn't match their reality.

What you'll see

Here's what a real result looks like.

Safe to fail Safe to speak up Inclusion Asking for help Input valued 3.8 3.2 4.1 3.6 2.9
Team average Manager self-assessment

Biggest gap: "Input valued" - You rated 4.1. Your team rated 2.9. That's a 1.2-point gap.

The five sentences

What your team will be asked.

No trick questions. No ambiguity. Five sentences your team rates from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).

  • "If I made a mistake on this team, it would not be held against me." Safe to fail. The foundation of psychological safety.
  • "I feel safe to raise problems or tough issues with my manager." Safe to speak up. Whether your team tells you what you need to hear.
  • "People on this team sometimes reject others for being different." Inclusion. Whether difference is tolerated or punished. Reverse-scored
  • "It is easy to ask other members of this team for help." Asking for help. Whether vulnerability is safe or career-limiting.
  • "My manager genuinely values my input and perspective." Input valued. Whether people believe their voice actually matters.

Based on Amy Edmondson's psychological safety research at Harvard, adapted for the reality of how small teams actually work.

Built for honesty

Your team needs to trust this. We built it that way.

No names or emails are collected from respondents. They open the link, rate five sentences, and close the tab. That's it. There is nothing to trace back to them.

Results only unlock after three responses, which prevents identification in small teams. As a manager, you see aggregate scores only. You never see individual responses. You see what your team thinks as a whole, not who said what.

All data is automatically deleted after 12 months. You can read the full details in our privacy policy.

The only way this works is if your team believes it's safe. We designed every part of it with that in mind.

Two minutes to set up. Two minutes for your team.
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Who built this

Built by Arran Russell. 15 years in SME leadership.

Started with a team of 3. Ended with 60+ people across the UK and Europe. Made every management mistake going.

The Speak-Up Test exists because I spent years thinking my team felt safe to speak up. I was wrong. By the time I realised, I'd already lost good people.

Last thing

Five sentences. Two minutes. The most honest feedback you'll get this year.

Free. Anonymous. No email required.

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