The Signal Pulse — complimentary

AI use is growing. Is your leadership behavior helping change how work gets done?

Get a directional read on how your leadership shows up in AI-driven work: where your signal is strongest, and where your next opportunity may sit.

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A directional self-read, grounded in research with 1,191 working leaders across six independent samples.

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The Signal Pulse · your reading

Your Signal Pulse reading

Your bars show how your answers spread across the three signals, from your own view at one point in time. The reading has no overall score and no comparison with other leaders.

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The eleven statements you answered

One statement for each of the eleven dimensions, grouped by signal, with your answer beside it. The Signal Profile™ measures each dimension through two to five behaviors, with three items per behavior: 36 behaviors in all.

How to use this reading

Take five minutes. Read the eleven statements once and mark two: the one that surprised you, and the one you would want your team to notice. Then show the list to one person on your team and ask two questions: Does this match what you see? Which one would you notice first if it changed? Their answers give you an informal second view. The Signal Profile 360™ gathers structured observer ratings of the same behaviors.

Optional: which best describes you? It shapes the next step we show and send.

How many leaders do you work with? (optional)

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What this reading can and cannot tell you

This reading	The Signal Profile™
One statement for each of the 11 dimensions	108 items: three for each of the 36 behaviors
How often you report each statement, from your own view	Each behavior placed against reference distributions from 601 working leaders
Three signals and one practice to try	All 11 dimensions, and the one behavior to develop first, with a matched routine
Your own view	Signal Profile 360™ adds how observers see your behavior

The Signal Profile™ is built on a psychometrically developed instrument, developed and independently tested with 1,191 working leaders across six independent samples, with content validity evaluated by 199 doctoral-level expert judges. The Pulse is a short directional read from the same framework and has not been separately validated. For development only; not for hiring, promotion or pay decisions.

What the research found

In our validation research with 601 working leaders, each behavior was rated by about 200 of them. The five least-reported of the 36 behaviors were all standing routines or decisions made before the evidence is complete, such as running recurring AI experiments on real work. The most-reported was making it safe to ask for help with AI.

Research description only. Your Pulse uses a different, shorter scale and is not compared with these leaders.

The next step

Why these three signals

Signalead™ reads three signals that leaders send in AI-driven work. Inner shapes the leader: how you learn and adapt with AI. Outward shapes the team: how you build your team's learning with AI. Grounded shapes the organization: how you set boundaries and judge AI output. The model links them in a chain: leadership signal, team learning, workflow change, business value.

signalead.ai/pulse · A directional read from the Signalead™ framework. For development only; not for hiring, promotion or pay decisions.

How this reading is built

11 statements, frequency-anchored (almost never → almost always).
Each statement maps to one signal; your bar is that signal's average.
Start here is your least-frequent single answer. When answers tie, the statement under your lowest signal comes first, and you can switch. When all eleven answers are the same, you choose.
Your bars show relative emphasis across the three signals — a directional read, not a score and not a comparison with other leaders.
If you called your shot before starting, the headline compares your expectation with how your responses leaned. Nothing else changes.
The Pulse is directional and has not been separately validated. The Signal Profile™ is built on a psychometrically developed instrument — developed and independently tested with 1,191 working leaders across six independent samples, with content validity evaluated by 199 doctoral-level expert judges — measuring 11 dimensions and 36 behaviors. For development only; not for hiring, promotion or pay decisions.