What have you stopped noticing?
You are a few years into a senior role. Competent, experienced, busy. And there is a quiet sense that something has shifted — you are more certain, more removed, and somehow less connected to what is actually happening around you. This is a short self-assessment on that. Not your skills. Your attention.
Thirty-five questions. About ten minutes. Summary on screen, full report by email.
The problem with attention
Most of what you need is already in the room.
Leadership tools usually measure the visible things — how you communicate, how you delegate, how you decide. This one looks somewhere quieter. It asks about attention itself: where yours goes, and where it has slipped without you noticing. Because attention sits underneath the rest of it.
Seven areas
As you get more senior, these are the first to fade.
More busy. More certain. More removed from the room. The assessment maps where your attention sits across each one.
Noticing
Reading yourself and the room, before anyone says a word.
Steadying
Staying composed enough under pressure to choose your response.
Presence
Being where you are, with the person in front of you.
Asking
Leading with a question instead of reaching first for the answer.
Listening
Making people feel heard, not just gathering the facts.
Naming
Saying the hard thing, with enough care that it lands.
Reflection
Making space to think, and catching your own patterns before they catch you.
How it works
Three steps. About ten minutes.
No trick questions, no right answers. Your results are yours.
14 or 35 questions — you choose
Start with a 3-minute quick check, or go straight to the full 10-minute assessment. Honest responses get a more useful read.
Your summary on screen
Where your attention sits across the seven areas, and a short read on what it might mean.
The full report by email
What each area means, what strong and depleted look like, and one question to sit with for each.
What you get
A mirror, not a verdict.
You will get a score, because a number is a useful place to start. But the point is not the number. The point is the read — a plain reflection of what your answers might be saying, and the one area worth your attention next. What you do with it is the actual work.
Where it came from
A few years of coaching leaders taught me something I did not expect.
The ones who struggle are rarely short on answers. They are short on attention. They stopped noticing the room. They stopped asking, because answering was faster. They were in every meeting and fully present in none of them.
So I built something to make that visible. Not a competency framework. Not a 360. A mirror — seven areas where attention tends to slip, mapped against how you actually show up.
— Prashant Uttekar, Curious Crow
The work behind the seven
These seven areas stand on work worth naming. Tasha Eurich on how rarely we see ourselves clearly. Daniel Goleman on managing our own reactions under pressure. Edgar Schein on asking rather than telling. Nancy Kline and Otto Scharmer on the quality of attention we bring to listening. Kim Scott and Brene Brown on saying the hard thing with enough care that it lands. Amy Edmondson on the safety that lets people speak at all. Donald Schon on reflection as the thing that turns experience into learning.
All of it pointed at attention. Because attention sits underneath the rest.
Ready to look?
Quick check in 3 minutes, or full assessment in 10. The report lands in your inbox.
Begin the assessment →Questions, or want to talk about what you find?
Write to Prashant at prashant@curiouscrow.in
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