What You'll Receive
Within moments of completing the assessment, a personalized report is emailed to the address you provided. The report covers all seven iPERSON domains and gives you a clear picture of where listening barriers are most and least present in your life right now.
The report includes a domain-by-domain summary, your Developing / Building / Thriving score for each area, and a short set of practical action steps — called Try This prompts — to help you begin addressing what you discover.
Example — Domain Score Summary
Your report reflects your listening patterns right now, in this season of life. Results can and do change as circumstances, relationships, and spiritual rhythms shift. You are encouraged to retake the assessment periodically to track growth over time.
Understanding Your Score Levels
Each domain is scored by counting the number of barriers you identified — questions you answered True (meaning the barrier is present for you). A higher score means more barriers present, which is reflected in a Developing result for that domain.
Significant Barriers
Three or more of the five barriers in this domain are currently active in your life. This domain deserves intentional attention and is a strong starting point for growth.
Some Barriers Present
One or two barriers are present. You have real strength here, but there are specific patterns worth noticing and naming — especially in certain relationships or settings.
Few or No Barriers
This area is a genuine strength. Fewer than two barriers were identified. Celebrate this — and consider how you might help others grow in this same dimension.
A Developing result is not a condemnation — it is a diagnosis. Most people have at least one or two Developing domains. The goal of the assessment is not to make you feel bad about your listening, but to make the invisible visible so you can grow with intention.
How the Scoring Works
The assessment presents 35 statements — five per domain — and asks you to answer each one True or False based on your honest experience. A True answer indicates that a particular barrier to listening is present for you. False indicates it is not.
There are no trick questions and no right or wrong answers in a moral sense. The assessment is descriptive, not prescriptive. It describes where you are, not where you should be. The more honestly you respond, the more useful your results will be.
What Each Domain Measures
The iPERSON framework maps seven dimensions of your life where listening barriers commonly take root. Understanding what each domain covers helps you interpret your results with nuance.
i — Independence
How your sense of personal agency shapes your listening. Whether you trust your own interpretation of what you hear, or habitually defer to others' readings of a conversation before you'll act on what you understood. Low independence can make conversations feel exhausting and create quiet anxiety around receiving important information.
Physical
How your body affects your ability to listen — fatigue, pain, hunger, environment, and sensory overload. When you are physically depleted, even good intentions are not enough to keep you present.
Emotional
How unprocessed emotion — anxiety, hurt, defensiveness, unresolved grief — shapes what you hear and how you respond. Emotional noise is one of the most common and least recognized listening barriers.
Relational
How the history and dynamics of specific relationships affect your listening. Old patterns, power imbalances, unspoken assumptions, and relational wounds all filter what we allow ourselves to hear.
Spiritual
How your posture toward God and spiritual rhythms affects your listening — to Him, and as a result, to others. A prayerful, attentive spirit creates space for genuine presence with people.
Occupational
How the pressures and pace of your work, roles, and responsibilities crowd out the margin you need to listen well. Busy people are rarely present people. This domain names the cost of a full calendar.
Noetic
How your thought patterns, assumptions, and mental habits affect what you register and retain. Confirmation bias, mental preoccupation, and internal monologue all operate below the surface and shape what we "hear."
The "Try This" Action Steps
For each domain in your report, you'll find a short section called Try This — a set of practical, concrete suggestions tailored to that domain's score level.
These are not exhaustive programs or lengthy commitments. They are small, doable experiments to help you begin moving in the right direction. The best way to use them is to pick one suggestion from your highest-scoring domain and try it for a week before adding more.
Identify your single highest-scoring domain. Read the Try This prompts for that domain. Choose the one that feels most honest and most stretching — not the easiest one — and practice it intentionally this week. Come back to the others over the following weeks.
Five Ways to Use Your Results
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Personal reflection. Sit with your results quietly before doing anything else. Ask: "Which of these surprises me? Which confirms what I already suspected?" Let the data be an entry point for prayer and honest self-examination.
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Conversation with a trusted person. Share your report with a spouse, close friend, mentor, or pastor. Ask them: "Does this match what you observe in me?" Their perspective may confirm — or helpfully complicate — what the assessment surfaced.
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Use with a coach or counselor. If you are currently working with a coach or counselor, your Hear Me results make an excellent starting point for a session. The domain breakdown helps name areas that might otherwise take weeks to surface.
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Group intake or team debrief. If your organization purchased multiple codes, invite everyone to share their top two domains in a debrief conversation. This creates a shared vocabulary around listening and surfaces team patterns that often go unspoken.
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Course enrollment. The Hear Me online course from Aperture Work walks through each PERSON domain in depth — with teaching, reflection exercises, and community. Your report serves as your personalized entry point into the course material.
Sharing Your Results
Your results belong to you. The report is sent only to the email address you provide during the assessment — it is not stored in any public or shared location, and it is not visible to anyone who purchased a code on your behalf (such as an employer or group leader).
If you choose to share your results with others — a group facilitator, a spouse, a team — that is entirely your decision. We encourage thoughtful discretion, especially in workplace settings, where vulnerability about personal struggles may feel higher-stakes. The Hear Me assessment is designed first for your own growth, not for evaluation or comparison by others.
Retaking the Assessment
Each access code is single-use. If you'd like to retake the assessment — after a season of intentional growth, a major life transition, or a significant change in relationships or circumstances — you can purchase a new code from the Hear Me page.
Many people find it meaningful to retake the assessment 6–12 months after their first time, or after completing the Hear Me course. Comparing your results across seasons can be a powerful measure of growth.
Your report is delivered by email. We recommend saving or printing it for future reference — we do not store a copy on our end that can be resent. If you misplace your report, you may contact us at play@aperturework.com and we'll do our best to help.
"Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger."
James 1:19