Methodology
Leadership, scored
on behavior.
Behavioral intelligence is what a manager does, scored across scenarios and over time. Not a personality. Not a trait. A pattern.
The research
What the research actually says.
Five research traditions shape how Alvie works. Each one does a specific job.
Observable leadership behavior.
What a manager does is measurable. What a manager thinks they do is not. Simon Elvnäs's work at KTH shows the gap is wider than most leaders believe.
Elvnäs, KTH
Culture travels with the team.
Teams span regions and roles. Feedback, disagreement, and decisions read differently in each. Scenarios draw on the dimensions described by Erin Meyer so the context is accounted for, not the stereotype.
Meyer, INSEAD
Judgment is context-dependent.
Every scenario varies the pressure, the stakeholder, the reversibility, and the information level. The score reflects how the manager works, not how the day was.
Behavioral science
Practice beats content.
Reading a playbook once does not make it available in a Tuesday Slack thread. Short, spaced retrieval does. Every round tests the skill the last round exposed.
Cepeda et al., spaced practice
Built for different minds.
People process, respond, and communicate differently. Verbal and written instructions. Asynchronous response windows. Explicit signals before hard topics.
Neuroinclusive design
The rubric
Five competencies. One rubric.
Alvie tracks five behaviors you can observe, not infer. The score reflects what the response contained.
Can the team act on it without a follow-up?
Is the message clear to the person receiving it, not just the person sending it?
Does the manager build the team's judgment, or substitute their own?
Can they name what they chose, what they set aside, and why?
Is the standard held the same when nobody is watching?
Scenario anatomy
Inside a scenario.
Every scenario is a moment a manager could meet this week. The shape is intentional.
Scenario
A moment happens.
Context varies.
Response is scored.
The round ends.
Real work context.
A decision that could land in Slack or Teams on a Tuesday. No puzzles, no hypotheticals.
Context variables.
Pressure, stakeholder, reversibility, and information level change each round.
Multiple plausible paths.
More than one response can work. Not all work equally well for the context.
A next rep.
Every round ends with something the manager can try this week.
Scenario
A moment happens.
Context varies.
Response is scored.
The round ends.
Real work context.
A decision that could land in Slack or Teams on a Tuesday. No puzzles, no hypotheticals.
Context variables.
Pressure, stakeholder, reversibility, and information level change each round.
Multiple plausible paths.
More than one response can work. Not all work equally well for the context.
A next rep.
Every round ends with something the manager can try this week.
Boundaries
What Alvie isn't.
Two things Alvie isn't trying to be. One thing it is.
A measurement of what a manager does. And the next rep to try.
Elvnäs, KTH·Meyer, INSEAD·Edmondson & Bransby·Cepeda et al.·Google re:Work
The score is the pattern, not the answer.
See a scored response live.
A 30-minute walkthrough. No deck.