Find out what's actually getting in your way.
You know you're good at your job. You also know something isn't quite landing. This is the assessment that tells you what.
Most professionals never get a clear answer to the question that matters most: how do I actually come across? They get vague feedback. Generic 360s. A personality test that tells them they're an ENTJ. None of it tells them what to do on Monday morning.
The Open-Source Charisma Pro Assessment is built for the person who wants the specific answer. Sixty questions, ten minutes, and a personalised twenty-three-page report that names the two skills where the next ten weeks of work will most repay you.
Why charisma is the skill that multiplies the others
Take two people with the same expertise, the same hours in the job, the same intelligence. One leaves every room a little stronger than they found it. The other leaves it the same. Over five years, the first one runs the team. The second wonders what happened.
The difference is not luck. It is not personality. It is a specific set of behaviours that anyone can develop once they know which ones are missing. We call them charisma because it is the easiest word for the effect they produce. The effect is real, measurable, and learnable.
What this assessment gives you:
A precise reading of how you currently land with the people around you. The two specific skills where you have the biggest gap between your potential and your current impact. A four-week plan to close that gap with practice you can run inside your normal working week.
What you get back, in plain English
The Pro report is twenty-three pages. The screenshots below are from a real sample. The name has been changed; the scores, the analysis and the development pages are exactly what you receive.
Page 2: Your four readings. Confidence and Social Skills produce your quadrant. Authenticity Index and Personal Impact pick up what the dimensions cannot see.
Page 6: All ten subscales scored from 0 to 100. The two amber bars are your priority subscales, picked by the scoring engine as the most useful focus now.
It tells you what's working
Most assessments find the gaps. This one starts with the strengths. Knowing what is already working is more useful than a list of what is not, because the fastest way to develop is to extend what already lands.
Page 11: Each of your two top strengths gets a dedicated page. What it looks like in practice, why it matters, and how to make it work harder for you.
It names the two specific things to work on
Not ten things. Two. The reason is simple: nobody develops ten things in parallel. The scoring engine picks the two that will move you furthest, fastest. Each gets its own page, with the underlying mechanics laid out and four concrete practices to run this week.
Page 13: Your priority development areas, in full. What's going on under the score, why it matters, the skill to build, and four practices to try this week.
It gives you a four-week plan
Most development plans fail because they are too vague or too long. The Pro plan is four weeks, with one or two specific actions per week, sized to fit alongside your normal job.
Page 18: The four-week plan. Small enough to actually run. Specific enough to see what changed.
It gives you a tool to set your own goals
The report closes with a structured goal-setting exercise for each of your priority subscales. Five short steps. Ten minutes per exercise. The method is solution-focused scaling, used in coaching for thirty years for the same reason: it produces one specific next step.
Page 20: One goal-setting page per priority subscale. The exercise is built to produce one specific action this week, not a vague intention.
Open-Source Charisma Pro Assessment
Sixty questions. Ten minutes. A twenty-three-page report you can act on this week.
Take the assessmentWho this is built for
The Pro is for the person whose job has more to do with how they land than how clever they are. You probably know who you are. Some pointers:
- A senior professional who has just had feedback they can't quite parse
- A leader who knows their team is performing below what it could
- A consultant or coach who wants the same tool to use with their own clients
- Anyone who has done a personality test and thought, this tells me nothing I can use
- Anyone who suspects the gap between their potential and their current impact is bigger than it should be
Common questions
How is this different from a personality test?
A personality test tells you who you are. The Pro tells you what you do. We measure behaviours, not traits. People with very different personalities can produce identical Pro scores, because the instrument is silent on what is going on underneath. What it sees is whether the behaviours that produce charisma in working life are present, and where they are not.
Why not just take the free version?
Take the free version first if you have not already. It places you in your quadrant and gives you a broad reading of where to focus. The Pro answers a different question: which of ten specific skills are doing the work, which are the gaps, and what should you do about it. The free Indicator points you at the country. The Pro gives you the postcode.
What if my score is low?
A low score on a subscale is not a verdict on you as a person. It is a reading of a specific skill that is not yet doing its job reliably. The work is incremental, visible, and doable inside the normal meetings of your working week. Most of the development pages in the report are specific enough to start on within twenty-four hours.
Is this for use with my team or clients?
Yes. The Pro is licensed for individual use at £39. For coaching networks, L&D departments, and consulting firms running the Pro with multiple clients or colleagues, bulk licences are at a lower per-seat rate. Contact Jim at jim.harvey@themessagebusiness.com for details.
Who built it
The Open-Source Charisma project is the work of Jim Harvey at The Message Business. Thirty years of practice with senior leaders, sales teams and consultants in firms including JP Morgan, Mercer, Ford and Rolls-Royce. The instrument is the empirical end of that practice, built to make the model usable for people who are not in the room with a coach.
The methodology, scoring spec, and validation status are set out in full on the Methodology page. The companion book, Open-Source Charisma, sets out the model in narrative form with stories, characters, and ten chapters of practice.