Sample report · Individual Courage Index

Jordan Hale

VP Operations · CES 59 Transitional · 8 followers

Fictional leader. Scores and comments are illustrative — not from a live cycle.

Primary

Frozen

Problems are known. Naming them is treated as riskier than living with them. The system calcifies.

Secondary

Appearance of alignment. Real conversation happens after the meeting. This leader decides on filtered information.

Five elements

Outer ring is 100. Scale is CES.

Important Work: 73

Curiosity: 62

Challenge: 38

Trust: 48

Community: 74

Highest-rated behaviors

3.5 · Shares credit rather than hoarding it.

3.4 · Makes it clear why our work matters beyond hitting targets.

3.3 · Prioritizes what is actually important over what merely looks valuable.

Lowest-rated behaviors

1.9 · Invites challenge on their own ideas, including “tell me why this is a dumb idea.”

2.1 · Values people who raise problems rather than managing them out.

2.2 · Treats disagreement as useful information, not disloyalty.

What followers said

Direct report

Keep doing: Makes it obvious why the work matters. People can repeat it without looking at a slide.

Change this: Disagreement in the room still feels like a career event. The real argument happens after.

Example: When the Q3 plan was challenged, the conversation moved offline within two minutes.

Direct report

Keep doing: Follows through when it costs something. That part is not theater.

Change this: Invite the challenge before the decision is already made. We can tell.

Skip-level / indirect

Keep doing: Credit actually goes to the team. That is noticed one level down.

Change this: I have not seen a mind change in front of us. Concerns get heard, then the original call stands.

Peer / colleague

Keep doing: Protects the work that actually matters when everything else is screaming for airtime.

Change this: Private and public still do not always match on the hard calls.

Example: Said the overruns were unacceptable in the staff meeting. Softened it with the sponsor the same afternoon.

Peer / colleague

Keep doing: Steps in when someone is struggling. Makes that normal instead of a rumor.

Change this: Naming a problem is still riskier than living with it. The team has learned the difference.