11 athletes responded anonymously — and what came back is worth seeing. Here's how your instincts held up.
Your read vs. the data
You predicted
Psychological Safety
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Actual strongest
Values Alignment (7.5)
That's the scan working. You were watching one signal — and your team's energy is actually strongest somewhere else. That's not a miss, that's new information. Most leaders never get to see this. Now you have a clearer picture of what's currently holding your team together — and something worth protecting.
What's holding your team together
Integrity
Values Alignment
✦7.6
out of 10
+0.8 vs benchmark
Edelman's Trust Barometer and Gallup's team effectiveness research consistently identify perceived integrity in leadership as one of the strongest predictors of discretionary effort — people invest more when they believe the system they're part of is reliable and honest with them.
Why this matters
Your athletes trust that what coaching staff says will actually happen — and that trust didn't build itself. When actions consistently match words, athletes stop spending energy on doubt. They don't have to second-guess whether selection decisions will be explained or whether commitments will be kept. That predictability is what trust is actually made of — not team spirit, not liking each other, but the accumulated evidence that this coaching system is reliable. Your team has that evidence. It compounds.
What it enables for your team
Honest conversations happen earlier — athletes trust it's worth raising concerns because follow-through is real
Discretionary effort in training flows freely because athletes trust the system they're investing in
Difficult coaching decisions land with less resistance — even when athletes disagree, they trust the intent
What to protect
Integrity in a coaching relationship is built slowly and lost quickly. One unexplained decision can shift the baseline. You've built something valuable here. Keep doing exactly what you're doing — consistency under competitive pressure is the mechanism that protects this.
6.4
out of 10
Team Energy Index
+0.1above benchmark (6.3) · 138 teams
This is your team's overall energy right now — the 7 drivers below show where it's coming from.
11/12 responded · 92% participation
Scores are 1–10. 7.0+ is healthy. Below 7 means extra energy is going toward compensating. The dot shows where other teams scored.
7 Energy Drivers
The conditions shaping your team's energy
Sorted from strongest to most strained. Each card shows what your athletes reported, why it matters, and how you compare to the platform benchmark across 138 teams.
Values Alignment
Integrity
7.6
out of 10
7.0 healthy● Benchmark: 6.8 (138 teams)
Why this matters: Trust is the invisible infrastructure of a high-performing team. When athletes believe that what coaching staff says matches what actually happens, they invest discretionary effort — in training, in communication, in the difficult moments of competition.
What your athletes reported
Coaching actions matching what's said in the room
7.5
Coaching decisions feeling made with the squad's best interests in mind
7.7
Collaboration & Belonging
Harmony
7.2
out of 10
7.0 healthy● Benchmark: 6.3 (138 teams)
Why this matters: Chemistry in a team isn't a personality coincidence — it's a condition. When athletes feel they genuinely belong to the group, they play for each other rather than alongside each other. That distinction shows up in the moments that decide games.
What your athletes reported
Pulling together when things get hard on and off the court
7.0
Genuine sense of belonging — not just being on the same roster
7.4
Clarity & Structure
Organization
7.0
out of 10
7.0 healthy● Benchmark: 6.5 (138 teams)
Why this matters: When athletes know their role and how they contribute to the team's system, they stop spending energy on ambiguity and redirect it toward execution. Clarity under pressure is a performance advantage.
What your athletes reported
Role clarity and expectation alignment within the system
6.9
Preparation routines building confidence for competition
7.1
Recognition & Exchange
Reciprocity
6.5
out of 10
7.0 healthy● Benchmark: 6.3 (138 teams)
Why this matters: Athletes don't need to be rewarded for everything. They need to feel that what they give isn't disappearing. When that exchange breaks — when effort goes unacknowledged — commitment becomes transactional.
What your athletes reported
Contributions in training and competition getting acknowledged
6.4
Effort feeling matched by appropriate recognition and support
6.6
Equity & Trust
Fairness
6.1
out of 10
7.0 healthy● Benchmark: 6.0 (138 teams)
Why this matters: Perceived fairness around playing time and opportunity is one of the fastest routes to either full commitment or quiet withdrawal — and athletes notice inequity long before they say anything about it.
What your athletes reported
Playing time and opportunities feeling distributed fairly
5.9
Rules and expectations applying equally to everyone on the roster
6.3
Work-Life Harmony
Balance
5.8
out of 10
7.0 healthy● Benchmark: 5.8 (138 teams)
Why this matters: Recovery is the competitive advantage most teams underinvest in. Athletes who can genuinely separate from the demands of sport during personal time perform better over longer periods and sustain output when competition intensity peaks.
What your athletes reported
Ability to separate from sport demands during personal time
5.6
Training demands feeling matched to recovery available
6.0
Psychological Safety
Authenticity
5.1
out of 10
7.0 healthy● Benchmark: 6.6 (138 teams)
Why this matters: In a competitive environment, the default is performance. Athletes learn early that showing vulnerability is a risk. When psychological safety is genuinely low, concerns stay hidden, mistakes don't surface, and coaching staff operate with incomplete information.
What your athletes reported
Feeling safe to ask questions, push back, or admit needing help
5.0
Honesty feeling safer than staying quiet on this team
5.2
Where to start
Creating the conditions around Psychological Safety
Authenticity scored 5.1/10 — the most strained driver, and significantly below the benchmark of 6.6. Athletes aren't fully speaking up. You can't manufacture honesty — you can only create the conditions where it becomes safe enough to happen.
What usually blocks this
The most common blocker in competitive environments is the performance identity. Athletes learn early that showing doubt, asking for help, or flagging a problem signals weakness — and that signal has consequences. The culture of readiness that makes athletes competitive also makes honesty costly. Safety isn't built by asking better questions. It's built by how you respond when someone risks being real.
Questions worth sitting with
“Think about the last time an athlete said something honest and uncomfortable. What happened in the ten seconds after? Would they do it again?”
“Is there something the team knows is a problem but hasn't said out loud? What would need to be true for that to change?”
A strength you can lean on
Integrity · Values Alignment (7.6/10) is the team's strongest driver. Athletes already trust that what coaching staff says matches what happens. That trust is the foundation safety is built on — people speak up in environments they believe are honest. The conditions for safety are closer than the score suggests.
What your athletes reported
The specific areas rated highest and lowest
These are the most concrete signals from the pulse. Start conversations here.
Strongest
7.7/10
Coaching decisions feeling made with the squad's best interests in mind
7.4/10
Genuine sense of belonging — not just being on the same roster
Most strained
5.0/10
Feeling safe to ask questions, push back, or admit needing help
5.2/10
Honesty feeling safer than staying quiet on this team
Performance Signals
How your team is showing up
Three signals showing your team's current competitive capacity. Each one is a pattern, not a verdict. Higher is better.
72%
Competitive Energy
Avg: 66% +6%
How well your athletes are replenishing between training and competition — the reserve that drives performance.
59%
Drive & Effort
Avg: 64% -5%
The competitive drive and investment your athletes are bringing to training and competition.
63%
Mental Sharpness
Avg: 67% -4%
How mentally sharp and focused your athletes are — ready to execute under competitive pressure.
Everything here is aggregated and anonymous. Responses were collected without any identifier. No name, no jersey number, no device ID. No one — including coaching staff — can tell who said what. That's by design, not just policy. It's why athletes answered honestly.
Keep the picture current
These results reflect where the team is right now — but team energy shifts with every phase of the season, competition block, and roster change. The conditions measured here can move meaningfully within a few weeks.
Running another pulse at a different point in the season lets you see whether the areas you focused on actually moved — and whether new pressures have emerged as competition intensity changes.
Next pulse window
Calculating...
90 days from today — when conditions may have shifted.
Why this matters: Most teams don't lose because of talent — they lose because of invisible conditions that coaching staff can't see from the outside. These 7 drivers are the layer beneath performance metrics. A pulse at each phase of the season gives you the information to act on what's actually shaping performance, not just what's visible.
Need support working on Psychological Safety?
If Authenticity (5.1/10) feels like something the team needs to work through together, ZenWorkspace offers a 90-minute facilitated Team Reset Session — designed around your actual scan data, not a generic team-building exercise.
A trained facilitator helps your team:
Surface what's making it hard to speak up — in a space that's structured to be safe
Have the team conversation that doesn't happen in practice or in the locker room
Leave with specific shared commitments — not a motivational playbook
