Mental Fitness · 05 Experience · FOUNDATION

What enrollment actually opens.

Compass Mental Fitness is delivered, not sold. This is the record of what a participant receives, where it is held, who can see it, and how the engagement is renewed or closed.

After you enroll

What the private workspace opens, in order.

Enrollment is not the end of a form. It is the start of a record — your reading, your cohort, your practice, and the one system change chartered alongside it.

  1. 01Confirmation and workspace accessDetailWithin one business day you receive your cohort dates and a sign-in to the private workspace.
    • —Named sign-in at /unlock — no shared password for participants.
    • —Your cohort start date, session times and the calendar invitations for all eight weeks.
    • —App access provisioned for the licensed practice app under your own account.
  2. 02Your reading is filed to youDetailYour Executive Mental Fitness Report sits in the workspace under your own name, visible to you and to Compass.
    • —Score range, top three patterns and the decision cost read.
    • —Nothing individual is shown to a sponsor or an employer. Team views are aggregated.
    • —You can re-enter a later reading and see the movement rather than a single snapshot.
  3. 03The pod workspace opensDetailOne place for the cohort: the weekly focus, the session thread and the practice record.
    • —The weekly video and focus for each of the eight weeks.
    • —A private cohort thread for what surfaced between sessions.
    • —Your own daily rep record — visible to you, never ranked against other members.
  4. 04The system change is charteredDetailAlongside the practice, one change to how the enterprise operates is named, owned and dated.
    • —Decision rights, standards, cadence or role clarity — whichever the reading implicated.
    • —An owner and a review date, held in the Compass delivery record rather than in a slide.
    • —For intact teams, the team reading is paired with a written working agreement.
  5. 05Reporting and renewalDetailAt week eight the pod reads its own movement, and continuation is a decision, not a default.
    • —A movement read: score change, pattern interruption, what held and what did not.
    • —For teams, an aggregated team sheet — evidence about the system, not a verdict on a colleague.
    • —ARC™ renewal: analyze, refine, commit — continue, change the mode, or close the engagement.

The method

Compass owns the enterprise interpretation. Positive Intelligence owns the instrument.

The Saboteur Assessment, the PQ® Score and the practice app are the work of Shirzad Chamine and Positive Intelligence, LLC. Compass licenses and facilitates them, and adds what an instrument cannot: what the reading means for decisions, roles, cadence and enterprise performance.

Positive Intelligence®, the PQ® Score, and the Saboteur model are the work of Shirzad Chamine and Positive Intelligence, LLC. Compass Performance, Inc. is an independent user of these instruments; the interpretation and coaching commentary here is Compass's own.

An applied variant

Compass Athlete

If you already know your score and top three saboteurs, Compass Athlete turns those two inputs into a short read on how the mind may respond when the game is on the line — in English, French or Spanish. It is an applied variant of the same read, not a separate offer.

Open Compass Athlete

Compass FOUNDATION

Where mental fitness sits in the operating system.

Mental fitness is not a wellbeing program. It is measured interference in executive judgment. Compass Mental Fitness is a capability inside FOUNDATION — one layer of the architecture Compass installs, held to the same evidence standard as every other layer.

  • Where it sits

    FOUNDATION · Face Reality · self-leadership. FOUNDATION is the first of the five Compass disciplines, and Face Reality begins with the leader's own judgment. Mental fitness is one capability inside that discipline — never a program running alongside the operating system.

  • What it changes

    A reading is evidence, not an intervention. Every engagement ships a system change with the practice — decision rights, standards, cadence or role clarity — so the insight lands in how the enterprise operates.

  • Where Positive Intelligence® appears

    In exactly one layer: the two instruments and the practice app are licensed from Positive Intelligence, LLC and credited as theirs. The diagnostic reading, the enterprise interpretation and the system change are Compass.

The whole architecture is on the FOUNDATION discipline page.

Plain English

Every term on this page, translated.

Some of these words are licensed method names and some are Compass delivery terms. None of them should cost you a minute of interpretation.

PQ®A judgment score, 1 to 100
The share of time the mind is working for the decision rather than against it. Trainable, not a personality type.
SaboteurA habitual reaction under pressure
The pattern that arrives faster than thought and shapes a decision before the decision is consciously made. Everyone carries three or four.
SageThe considered response
The way of responding that stays curious and useful when pressure arrives — empathy, perspective, a clear next action.
Mental Fitness PodA small facilitated cohort
Where the practice actually holds: eight weeks to start, one 90-minute session a week, individual or intact-team.
Pod memberA participant in a pod
Compass says "pod member". "Podder" is licensed-community slang and is not used in Compass materials.
Mental Fitness ReadThe two instruments plus the Compass reading
You take the Saboteur Assessment and the PQ® Score, enter your results, and Compass interprets them against the role you actually hold.
Executive Mental Fitness ReportWhat you receive back
Your range read, what each pattern costs in decisions and relationships, and the recommended next move.
Interpretation conversationOne meeting about what your reading means
Not a sales call and not coaching. Thirty minutes on the reading, the system around you, and whether a pod is the right move.
FacilitatorThe person who runs the pod
Compass facilitates the practice and owns the enterprise interpretation. A facilitator is not a therapist and the pod is not treatment.
RepA ten-second attention drill
The daily practice unit — a short tactile, sound or breathing focus that moves the score over weeks, not days.

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