The Silence Tax Report Card | Patricia L. Hendricks
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🎓 Free Diagnostic · Patricia L. Hendricks
ReportCard.Is your team's silence getting a passing grade?
Five categories. Five letter grades. One GPA that reveals exactly where your Silence Tax is bleeding your team's performance — and what to do about it today.
10 questions · 3 minutes · Instant results
Team Culture Report Card
Psychological SafetyD
Meeting HonestyF
Innovation VoiceC
Risk FlaggingD+
Retention SignalsB-
1.8GPA — High Silence Tax
Your Assessment — Step 1 of 2
Manager's Audit
Answer from your honest perspective. No judgment — this is your mirror, not your verdict. Each category maps to a letter grade on your Report Card.
🛡 Psychological Safety
01Do your team members challenge leadership decisions openly, without fear of consequence?
02Are team members visibly comfortable admitting mistakes or gaps in knowledge?
🗣 Meeting Honesty
03Do your meetings produce genuine debate, or do they typically end in unanimous agreement?
04When a senior leader is present, does the quality of candor visibly drop?
💡 Innovation Voice
05In the last quarter, did your team surface ideas you hadn't already considered?
06Has a competitor launched something your team ideated but never proposed?
⚑ Risk Flagging
07Are project risks typically surfaced early — or discovered only at the deadline?
08Do employees fix obvious errors without waiting for permission?
💼 Retention Signals
09Have exit interviews revealed problems leadership was never told about?
10Have you been genuinely surprised by a resignation from someone you thought was thriving?
Your Results
Team Culture Report Card
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Silence Tax Report Card
Assessment Year 2025–2026
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Complete the audit to see your verdict
Your full diagnosis will appear here after answering all 10 questions.
Now — Close the Gap
How does your team see it differently?
The most powerful data isn't your score — it's the gap between how you perceive your culture and how your team actually experiences it. Send them the anonymous team version.
Share Your Results
My team's Silence Tax Report Card is in.
"The cost of staying silent is always greater than the cost of speaking up."
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For Your Team — Step 2 of 2
Anonymous Team Audit
Forward this page to your direct reports. Their answers are anonymous — they never see yours. The gap between your scores is where the real conversation begins.
🔒This version is designed to be shared directly with your team. Answers are not stored or tracked. Each person takes it independently, in under 2 minutes.
From a team member's perspective
T1I feel safe disagreeing with my manager or senior leadership in a meeting.
T2I have ideas I haven't shared because I didn't think they'd be well-received.
T3I have noticed a problem at work that I chose not to report to leadership.
T4I believe my honest feedback would genuinely be welcomed by my manager.
T5I feel our team culture encourages speaking up, even when it's uncomfortable.
Team Member Perspective Score
team psychological safety grade
The Next Step
You've seen the grade. Now lower the tax.
A single 15-minute conversation can reveal the one cultural shift that unlocks everything else. Leaders who act on their Silence Tax don't just improve morale — they recover real, measurable performance.