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The Trellis Pulse Check
Six statements, two minutes, no email required. Each statement is a published sample item from the Trellis Leadership Diagnostic, one per dimension. Rate yourself against your last 30 days, not your intentions.
Your results
Focus
A narrow ICP you can state in one sentence is rare. The full instrument tests whether your calendar and pipeline actually reflect it.
You have a working definition of who you serve, but it bends under revenue pressure, and that bend is where focus erodes.
If you cannot say who you do not sell to, every opportunity looks like strategy. This is usually the first dimension growth punishes.
Decision architecture
Your team knows which decisions need you, which suggests decisions move without you. The full instrument tests how often that holds under load.
Decision rights exist but live mostly in your head. Expect stalls to appear as the team grows past your direct line of sight.
When nobody can name which decisions are yours, everything routes through you by default, and a week-long stall is usually already happening somewhere.
Team leverage
Handing off a full function with accountability is the strongest single signal of leverage. The full instrument tests whether it survives a bad quarter.
You delegate tasks but keep the outcomes, which caps the team at the speed of your review queue.
If no function has ever fully left your hands, you are the ceiling on execution, and hiring will not fix it until handoff does.
Commercial ownership
Knowing pipeline coverage cold usually means revenue has your attention weekly, not quarterly.
You track revenue when prompted and the picture is roughly right, but pipeline rhythm needs a system, not vigilance.
Distance from the pipeline numbers is the most expensive kind of delegation a founder can make.
Self-regulation
A recovery practice you actually kept is the most predictive habit in this dimension. The full instrument tests identity fusion alongside it.
The practice exists but loses to the calendar in hard weeks, which is exactly when it earns its keep.
Running without recovery compounds quietly. Boards rarely see it until decision quality already has.
Feedback metabolism
Changing a position on evidence, visibly, is what keeps hard information flowing to you.
You take in hard feedback, but the change is not always visible, so the team cannot tell whether telling you the truth works.
When positions never move in public, people stop bringing evidence, and the information you most need routes around you.
This pulse check scores one published sample item per dimension, so treat it as a direction, not a verdict. The full Trellis Leadership Diagnostic scores four items per dimension plus six open prompts, adds a perspective check from your team, and converts the profile into a written report with one 90-day priority and a 90-minute debrief with Erick Watson.
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