Part of Forward

Communication Compass

Communicate with greater clarity, confidence and impact.

Communication Compass is your starting point for exploring how you communicate, choosing one meaningful area to develop and turning insight into everyday action.

Understand where you are. Build what matters. Move forward.

18 workplace choices · Approximately 10 minutes · Saved privately on this device

What you will leave with

  • • A view of how you communicate today
  • • One meaningful development focus
  • • A practical 30-day practice cycle
  • • A way to reflect and see progress

Pace · Explore

Let's find your communication starting point.

Eighteen everyday choices, around ten minutes, and one clear area to develop.

01 · Where you are now

Begin with insight

The Compass uses 18 workplace choices to help you notice patterns across clarity, listening, audience awareness, constructive challenge, feedback and influence.

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02 · Your development cycle

This is how Forward works

Each Forward experience helps you explore a real workplace challenge, focus on what matters and turn learning into action.

1You are here

Explore

Respond to realistic workplace situations.

2

Understand

See your strengths and development priority.

3

Focus

Choose one behaviour that matters now.

4

Practise

Try the behaviour in your everyday work.

5

Reflect

Notice what happened and what to adjust.

6

Improve

Reassess and build evidence of progress.

03 · Why it helps

What Communication Compass helps you do

Three outcomes, in the order you will experience them.

See how you communicate today

Realistic workplace choices surface the patterns you fall into when work is busy, uncertain or under pressure.

Choose one meaningful focus

Rather than a long list of development goals, you leave with a single behaviour that matters now.

Turn insight into everyday action

A four-week practice cycle and short reflections help the behaviour become part of normal work.

04 · Supporting detail

How the experience works

Open only what you need. None of this is required before you begin.

05 · Trust

Private, developmental and yours

Your responses and progress are currently saved only in this browser. They are not shared with a manager or used as a performance rating.

Communication Compass is a developmental prototype. It is not a validated psychometric instrument or an objective measure of communication ability.

Read how the Compass was designed

06 · The wider portfolio

More from Forward

Understand where you are. Build what matters. Move forward.

Communication Compass is the beginning of a wider collection of development experiences designed around real workplace challenges. More experiences will be introduced over time.

Next: Explore

Your next step is to explore how you respond in everyday workplace situations.