Four minutes
Speak twice: once calmly, once while being challenged. See how you react in the ninety seconds after someone pushes back.
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How do you react when someone pushes back ?
Speak twice. Once calm, once challenged. Find out exactly what happens to you in the ninety seconds after someone pushes back.
Begin
You will speak twice. The second time, Mara will challenge you.
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Before you begin
About you.
We use your answers to make your results about your job and your meetings, not generic advice. Please fill in every field.
Before we start
Your voice stays on your device.
We never upload or record your audio. Your browser measures things like your pace and pauses as you speak, and only those numbers are kept.
Find somewhere you can speak out loud for two minutes. Headphones are better than speakers.
Allow microphone
Works best in Chrome or Edge. In other browsers the test only uses your voice, and will tell you.
One question
What kind of meeting do you have coming up?
We use this to decide who interrupts you and what they say.
Take one of two
Tell us what you do and who you do it for.
Say it the way you would tell a friend. This one is not scored. It shows us how you sound when you are relaxed.
Keep talking
Now for the hard part.
Say the same thing again, this time to the board . You have forty seconds, with a clock on screen.
Someone will interrupt you at some point. When they do, keep going.
I am ready
Comparing your two takes
Finding where your voice changed.
Comparing pace
Comparing pauses
Comparing pitch range
Comparing hedging
Finding where it changed
Your pressure score
0
out of 100
Pace, second by second
This is normal. When you feel under attack, your body reacts before you have time to think. You can train it to react less.
Keep going
How we measured this
Your habit under pressure
Where your pauses went
Everyone has one. Knowing yours is the first step to changing it.
See your full results
Your full results
Relaxed, and under pressure.
Finish
in for four
That test was designed to stress you a little. Take sixty seconds to breathe before you get back to your day.
I am ready
Take the test again in a week
One result shows where you are today. A second one shows whether you are improving.
Change takes practice, so we space the two tests a week apart.
Your second test opens in seven days. It is free and you do not need a card.
You do not need to do anything now. Your results are in your inbox and we have saved your first score.
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How to get better at this
Knowing your habit is useful. Changing it takes practice.
This test shows you what happens under pressure. Mara helps you practise. You rehearse the meeting you are worried about, Mara interrupts you and asks hard questions, and you keep going until you stay calm and clear.
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Before a meeting
The Practise Room
Rehearse on camera before a meeting. You get scores on six areas and feedback on what you say.
Private
Off the Record
Talk through what is worrying you before a meeting. Nothing is saved.
One to one
The Coaching Room
A short coaching session on one skill, like handling interruptions. Mara teaches it, you practise it, then you talk it through.
One drill a day
Daily Practise
One short exercise a day on a communication skill. Camera and microphone on, nothing recorded.
Ten minutes before you go in
Mindset Preparation
Practise your first ninety seconds and get in the right frame of mind before you walk in.
Two to twenty minutes
Breathing
Guided breathing to calm your nerves, from two to twenty minutes.
Big meetings
Performance Under Pressure
Practise with interruptions, hard questions and pushback. The full version of this test.
What to say
Message Studio
Plan what to say in an email, an update or a difficult message, then practise saying it.
Video
Session Studio
Write a script, record yourself with a prompter, and get feedback before you post.
Your meetings
Meeting Observer
Mara listens to a real call and gives you feedback afterwards.
Voice training
Voice Warm Up, Strength, Recovery
Exercises to warm up your voice so it is strong and clear without straining.
Your profile
The Mara Signature
Your communication style and how you perform under pressure, tracked over time.
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The Practise Room and Off the Record, ten sessions a month.
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