Communication is a skill. Time to measure yours.
Your coworker interrupts you for the third time, the assignment stays vague, the feedback conversation is coming up: 18 situations straight from real life, each with one most effective response — objectively scored against best practices from communication research. How often do you pick it?
- An objective score instead of self-assessment — here there’s a right answer and a less effective one
- Your profile across three core skills: speaking clearly, listening actively, mastering feedback
- A skill certificate if you score well — in black and white, ready to share
- 18
- realistic scenarios
- ~4 min
- to complete
- 3 skills
- measured separately
- 28
- languages
Sound familiar?
Almost everyone thinks they’re a good communicator. Almost every misunderstanding happens anyway. Something doesn’t add up.
You said it clearly — or so you thought
The task comes back completely different from what you meant. What was crystal clear in your head arrived as fog. Clarity isn’t a feeling — it’s a technique.
You’re listening — while already drafting your reply in your head
Real listening is rarer than we like to admit. If you’re just waiting for your turn to speak, you miss exactly the piece of information the conversation will later fall apart over.
Give feedback? Better to skip it than get it wrong
So you swallow it — until one day it bursts out. Yet effective feedback isn’t a personality trait; it’s a craft with surprisingly clear rules.
The perfect comeback hits you on the way home
Interrupted in the meeting, blindsided by criticism: between biting your tongue and snapping back, there’s a third way. Those who know it hold their ground — without souring the tone.
The three skills we measure
We don’t measure “communication” as one big blur — we measure three distinct skills with six scenarios each. Your result shows you exactly where you’re already strong — and where training pays off most.
Speaking clearly
Saying no without straining the relationship. Delegating without it coming back wrong. Explaining complex things without glazed-over eyes. Clarity is half the battle — and completely learnable.
Active listening
Paraphrasing, asking pointed follow-up questions, sitting with silence: listening is far more active than it looks. This is where it shows whether you truly understand — or you’re just waiting for your turn.
Giving & receiving feedback
Criticism that lands instead of wounding. Praise that sticks instead of fizzling out. And the ultimate discipline: taking tough feedback without going on the defensive.
What your results look like
No buying blind: take a look at a real sample result first — with an objective score, a skill breakdown, and a complete training plan. A result just like this is waiting for you.
- Your overall score with an honest read: where do you really stand?
- All three skills scored individually — with everyday examples and concrete tips
- Strengths, growth areas, and a prioritized action plan
- The 7-day plan that gets you training right away
Opens a real, anonymized sample result.
What you get
Not a two-line verdict — a result you can actually train with.
Your objective communication score
Effective or less effective — every decision counts. You see your overall score and how you did on all three skills, honestly and without sugarcoating.
In-depth skill report
Every dimension analyzed, with situations from your daily life and concrete tips — plus context profiles for work, relationships, and how you treat yourself.
Prioritized training plan
Your most important next steps in a sensible order, a 7-day plan to start right away, and reflection questions that stick with you.
Skill certificate + PDF
Score well and your communication certificate is thrown in on top. You get your complete result as a cleanly designed PDF — to keep and to share.
Three steps to your score
Play through the scenarios
18 realistic situations, four possible responses each. Pick the one you’d actually go with — not the one that sounds nicest. Takes about 4 minutes.
We score your answers
We match your decisions against best practices from communication research and calculate your score across all three skills — in under a minute.
Train and get better
You get your report with the analysis, your training plan, and — if you score well — your skill certificate. Read it, practice, put it to work in your next conversation.
Objective instead of gut feeling
The Communication Check is a situational judgment test (SJT): instead of asking you to rate yourself — everyone claims to be “a good listener,” after all — we put you in front of 18 concrete situations and watch how you decide. This format has been used in hiring and competency assessment for decades, precisely because it measures what self-assessments systematically distort.
Every scenario has one most effective response, derived from recognized best practices in communication research — from assertive conversation techniques to active listening to the rules of effective feedback. Behind every model answer sits a documented rationale, not a matter of taste.
One thing worth knowing: “wrong” here never means morally wrong — it means less effective. And because communication is a skill, this test comes with the best news of all: everything it measures is trainable.
Frequently asked questions
About 4 minutes for 18 scenarios. Read each situation carefully, then decide spontaneously — in our experience, overthinking doesn’t improve your result, but honest decisions do.
The test itself is free, and you’ll see your overall placement right away. You unlock the full in-depth analysis with the skill breakdown, training plan, and certificate with the 7-day access for $1.95 — then $39.95 every 4 weeks. Cancel anytime.
From communication research. Every scenario is based on well-documented best practices — for example, that summarizing and asking follow-up questions prevents misunderstandings, or that criticism lands better one-on-one than in front of the group. “Right” means: demonstrably most effective. Not: the only acceptable response.
More meaningful than any self-assessment, because you make concrete decisions instead of grading yourself. What matters is answering the way you’d actually react — not the way the textbook says. Your score is a snapshot of your skills: train, take the check again later, and you’ll see your progress in black and white.
Yes. You don’t need an account to take the test, and your result can only be reached through your personal link. Whether your boss, your team, or nobody at all finds out is entirely up to you.
The sporting way: by earning it. Score well on the check and you get your communication certificate as part of the in-depth analysis — with your result, ready to download and share. Just missed it? Train with the 7-day plan and take another shot.
18 situations. One objective evaluation. Your move.
Find out in 4 minutes how effectively you really communicate — with an honest score, a concrete training plan, and a certificate you can earn.
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