A sample report
Not a real person. Composite for illustration. The group scorecard (the one chairs paste) is one tab over.
The Cedar Forum · 2026 peer feedback
Forum health report →Alex
- Prepared for
- Alex
- Sources
- Based on feedback from 6 forum members.
Private to you. Nobody else in the forum can open this, and nobody’s words show up verbatim. How it works
- No one else in the forum can open it, including the moderator. After release, the moderator sees your group averages and self-gap on the forum’s trends page, never the words.
- Every quote below was reworded before it appeared, even the ones that sound specific. No giver is named.
- The feedback is combined across reviewers. Distinctive details may still be recognizable to people who know you well.
- Don’t try to work out who said what.
Alex:
- The forum trusts you.
- They also think you keep the real stuff to yourself.
- You push too hard when someone’s already raw.
That’s the report.
01 — Strengths
What they like
You make the forum think harder
You don’t take the first framing. People leave with a sharper question than they walked in with. More than once, they changed a hire or a deal because of it.
You’re the one people call between meetings
Several people named you as who they call when something is actually on fire. You pick up. You’re discreet. You stay practical. That was earned.
02 — Scorecard
How you see yourself vs. how the group sees you
YouGroup
Presence & engagement
Updates & preparation
Openness & vulnerability
Largest gap upward
Quality of contribution & advice
Freshness & progress
Trust & confidentiality
Candor & challenge
Largest gap downward
Blind spots
Almost everywhere, the group rates you higher than you rate yourself. Presence, contribution, openness — you’re harder on yourself than they are. The two places you rate yourself higher are preparation and how hard you challenge. Those are the two dials they’d turn down.
03 — Themes
What kept coming up
They see the strategist
MixedThe group has a clear read on how you think. The person is harder to get. You write a long update, then say you don’t really need time. When you do open up — late, briefly — it lands, because it’s rare. They want more of that.
“Alex writes a long update, then says they don’t really need time. When they actually tell us what’s hard, it’s the best part of the year.”
From the forum’s feedback · reworded
You overshoot
GrowthPeople want you to push. Once or twice a cycle it goes past useful. You’ll steelman before they’ve finished the sentence. Or you’ll ask if they’ve thought about firing someone before you ask how they’re doing. A couple of members said a hot presentation felt like a cross-examination. Same instinct. One notch too hard. Wrong moment.
“Alex asked if I’d thought about firing them before asking how I was. That’s the ten percent I remember.”
From the forum’s feedback · reworded
You keep the forum usable
StrengthWhen the forum gets tense, you’re often the one who cools it without dropping the hard thing. People notice. They rely on it more than they’ve said.
“I’ve watched Alex change their mind mid-meeting when someone had a better argument. That makes the rest of us braver.”
From the forum’s feedback · reworded
04 — The catch
When the strength costs you
The strength
You go after the logic
What it costs
The same edge that makes your feedback worth the trip can make it hard to sit with someone who’s struggling. You tell them what to do, or you drop an opinion. They want a story from your life. Sometimes they don’t need the argument stress-tested. They need twenty minutes of not being alone. The group already trusts your analysis. This year they want you to wait a beat before you fix it.
05 — The hard parts
What they want changed
- 1
Go first on the hard stuff
Start hereYou write a long update, then say you don’t really need time. You open up after someone else has made it safe.
You’re respected, so when you hold back, everyone else does too. The sessions where you went first were the ones that mattered. They want more of those.
- 2
Check before you push
Challenge is your default, even when the person is raw. Sometimes you’re on your phone during someone else’s update.
A hard question at the wrong moment makes the other person shut down. The phone looks like you’ve checked out. Don’t be less honest. Check whether they want a sparring partner or just someone in their corner.
06 — The short version
Strengths and the ask
Strengths
- You make the forum think harder
- You’re the one people call between meetings
Work on this
- Go first on the hard stuff
- Check before you push
One thing to try
Pick one session this quarter and go first. Not the long written update. Put a real, unresolved thing on the table — not the tidy version — and let the group work it. That’s the ask.
They respect you. They want you to go first next time. That’s it.
— Your forum
Nothing to turn in. Next year this becomes the baseline.
This is what the $499 buys.
A private 360 for every member, plus a shared read on the whole forum. You set it up. The group does the rest.