Read your assessment results
Interpret your radar chart, factor bands, and the gap between your scores and your raters'.
Every assessment produces the same kind of report: a radar chart of your scores, a band that classifies each score, and a guide that tells you what to do about it.
The radar chart
The radar chart plots one axis per dimension of the instrument: the four stages on the PSindex® self-assessment, or the six domains on the EQindex® self-assessment. A fuller, more even shape means broader strength; a dent on one axis points to your biggest opportunity.
If you’ve invited raters, the chart overlays their combined scores on yours, so you can see where their view of you diverges from your own. See Invite raters to your assessment.
Your gap, when you have raters
Once at least 3 raters have responded, your report reads two numbers side by side: External, how your raters scored you, and Self, how you scored yourself. A classification under the score turns the difference into one word:
- Blind Spot: others scored you lower than you scored yourself. Worth asking what they see that you don’t.
- Aligned: others scored you about where you scored yourself.
- Hidden Strength: others scored you higher than you scored yourself. A strength you may be underselling.
A gap of 5 points or less either way counts as aligned. Select the information icon beside any classification to open What the gap means, which defines all three.
Each dimension carries its own classification, so read them individually. An aligned overall score can still sit on top of one blind spot.
Factor bands
Each score falls into one of six bands, from lowest to highest:
- High Risk
- Risk
- Limiting
- Growth
- Strength
- Success
The bands do the interpretation for you. Anything in High Risk or Risk deserves attention first. Limiting means the behavior is holding you back. Growth, Strength, and Success are progressively stronger positions: keep building on them.
On a submitted report the band sits with your score while the results are self-only. Once enough raters have responded to produce an external score, the gap classification takes that spot instead.
The interpretive guide
Below the chart, the interpretive guide explains what each dimension measures, what your band means in practice, and where to focus. Read it dimension by dimension rather than fixating on a single number. The pattern across dimensions is more useful than any one score.
Get more out of your report
- Retake the assessment after a few months and compare. See Take an assessment.
- Add rater input. Self-perception is only half the picture; three or more rater responses unlock the full 360 report.
- Send the report to a coach or manager with Share your assessment results.