The Energy Level Index Assessment May Be Right For You
How many personality or workplace assessments have you taken? They are fun - you get to compare yourselves to colleagues and friends, maybe you learn something about yourself. In a way, it's like reading a horoscope: it makes you think, but it doesn’t really change much about you.
I felt this way until I started the program at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). In addition to teaching coaching skills, iPEC’s program is based around its own proprietary Energy Leadership Index (ELI).
Energy Levels
The ELI assessment is an attitudinal assessment tool that captures how you currently perceive and approach work and life. It’s not about your strengths, weaknesses or personality traits. It uncovers how you show up to the world—under normal circumstances and when you’re under stress. The assessment includes a 30-minute questionnaire and a one-hour debrief session with an ELI-MP (Master Practitioner).
The Forbes Coaches Council lists the ELI near the top on their list of assessments every executive should take.
The assessment is built around seven core energy levels. We each show up as a mix of these seven levels, and we show up differently under stress than on a good day. How these levels show up differs for all of us, and a Master Practitioner is trained in helping you discover how they show up for you, and where you may benefit from shifting your energy profile.
The seven levels can be summarized by the following chart.
Energy Level Quick Summary, Copyright iPEC 2020
These levels can also be thought of in terms of “winning” and “losing,” which my business clients sometimes relate to more easily.
Level 1: I lose
Level 2: I win/You lose
Level 3: I win/If you win too, that’s ok
Level 4: You win
Level 5: I win/You win
Level 6: Everyone wins
Level 7: Winning is an illusion
The Energy Levels can be thought of as representing two different types of energy:
Catabolic: Composed of the first two energy levels (‘antagonistic’ and ‘victim’), this energy is generally viewed as being destructive, draining, de-motivating, or contracting ways of being.
Anabolic: The five highest energy levels (rationalizer, helper, collaborator, connector, and creator) are predominantly seen as constructive, rejuvenating, self-motivating, or expanding ways of being.
Here is a more complex representation of the Energy Levels:
Energetic Self-Perception Chart, Copyright iPEC
Most of us experience far more catabolic energy under stress than on a normal day.
Core Benefits of the ELI Assessment
A deeper understanding of yourself including what you’ve hidden, what’s blocking you from achieving your goals, and what strengths you can lean-in to.
Awareness of your tendencies during normal and stressful times, including what you subconsciously default to during stressful times.
Insight into how to become your authentic and best self as a leader at work and home.
Less stress! The ELI shows you what’s stressing you and how to take that weight off your shoulders.
Signs You Would Benefit from the Assessment
You feel stressed out at work, have trouble maintaining work-life balance, or feel like you are not getting ahead as fast as you’d like.
You realize that as a leader you find yourself blaming others in your organization for things not going well.
You always get things done last minute, perhaps with a cost to others or to your relationships
You’re so busy helping others that your having trouble spending time on your own goals.
You’re getting things done, but not as well as you’d like.
Major challenges or issues get swept under the rug.
iPEC’s research paper shows that “people with higher energy accrue a greater sense of life satisfaction.” Through coaching, your energy level can be raised, and your stress reactions shifted, so you can achieve your definition of success.
As an ELI-MP, I am pleased to be able to offer this assessment to my clients. Please contact me via https://www.craigblitzcoaching.com/contact or book a consultation.
