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Leadership
How you handle disagreement is how you lead.
Nearly everything that slows a project down starts as a disagreement someone handled badly — pushed too hard, avoided, or smoothed over to keep the peace. The diagnostic looks at what you do in those moments, because it's the clearest signal of how you lead and the easiest thing to get better at.
Three things we believe.
Conflict is where leadership shows
Anyone can lead a team that agrees with them. What separates leaders is what they do when people don't.
Everyone has a default
Under pressure you fall back on the same move every time — pushing, conceding, splitting the difference, or stepping away. Most people have never been told which one is theirs.
A default can be widened
You don't need a personality transplant. You need two or three more responses available to you, practised until they're as automatic as the one you already have.
What taking it is like.
Andrew's own assessment, developed over thirty years of watching leaders in real situations. It takes about fifteen minutes, there are no right answers, and nothing about it is designed to catch you out.
Rate how you behave
A series of short statements about what you do when people don't agree with you. You rate how true each one is of you.
Answer honestly, not well
There's no profile that scores highest. The results are only useful if they describe how you actually behave rather than how you'd like to.
Get sorted straight away
Your answers place you on a pathway as soon as you finish — no waiting on a scoring appointment or a debrief in someone's diary.
Start on what you need
Your pathway opens with the lessons, scenarios and assignments aimed at your weak spot, in plain English and in the order that makes sense for you.
The five ways people handle it.
Your answers show how much you lean on each of these. Everyone uses all five — the question is whether you reach for the right one at the right moment, or default to the same one every time.
There's no best style and no score to beat. What matters is the gap between the one you default to and the one the situation in front of you actually needed.
Then your course is built from it.
Two people can score the same overall and need completely different work. That's why there's no standard programme — your results decide what you practise.
Learning to hear the objection
Your pathway works on drawing disagreement out early — scenarios where the cost of not hearing it plays out, and assignments that put you back in the room.
Learning to hold a position
Lessons and scenarios on stating a requirement and staying with it, including the conversations you'd normally smooth over.
Learning to open the conversation
Practice at raising the thing you'd rather not raise, while it's still a discussion and not a delay.
Where it comes from.
The model is Andrew's own, developed through his MSc research and thirty years on live projects. It maps what each leadership style costs you on a tight schedule — and, crucially, which lessons, scenarios and assignments actually shift it.
That mapping is what lets the platform build your pathway the moment you finish. You're reassessed at the end of it, so the change is something you can show rather than something you hope happened.
About Andrew →Fifteen minutes to find out what you default to.
Take the diagnostic and you'll have your results, and the pathway built from them, the moment you finish.
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