FAQ’s
The AgileBrain® methodology plumbs the mind’s depths systematically and with high validity. The AgileBrain® provides an incomplete sentence stem and prompts completion by selecting from a set of validated images.
AgileBrain maps your responses (both the images selected and the speed of those selections) corresponding to each of the twelve emotional cells (four domains – self, work (material), social, spiritual – at 3 levels – foundational, experiential, aspirational).
An algorithm is then applied that converts the selection data into a measure of emotional intensity. When used in combination with traditional assessment measures, AgileBrain has been showed to significantly increase the explanatory power of the outcome you are trying to measure.
Icebergs float low with only 10% showing above the waterline. Our brains are the same. Neuroscience shows that only 10% of brain activity occurs at the conscious (cognitive or rational) level. That means fully 90% of brain activity, including your emotions, operate “below the waterline.” If you think of the brain as an iceberg, then using a traditional cognitive assessment only scratches the surface. But we know that there’s a lot lurking under the surface! That’s what AgileBrain is all about.
AgileBrain methodology has been developed by behavioral scientists with over 100 years of clinical and research experience. The approach has been independently validated through 5 large scale studies and shown to provide more accurate measurement than other so-called, neuroscience-based assessments. The approach has also been published in the peer-reviewed academic journal, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. Ultimately, however, the most important test is you.
Did the AgileBrain exercise and the feedback you’ve received resonate with you? If so, we’re glad and encourage you to reflect on it, work with your own coach or mentor and take positive steps towards greater emotional self-awareness.
They are but they are “presenting” emotions. AgileBrain measures the underlying emotional needs that can present as anger (for example, feeling treated unjustly), joy (experiencing success), envy (going unrecognized) or other presenting feeling.
If you experience a presenting feeling, use the AgileBrain framework to help ask what’s going on deeper.
Of course, we would be delighted to see you again. AgileBrain is designed to measure your emotional / motivational state at a specific time. So, don’t come back tomorrow but do come back when you feel differently (stuck/unstock, growing/stagnating, happy/sad) or when your situation changes (new job, new family situation, new life event).
AgileBrain is a state-based measure. It measures your emotional state at the time you take it. Assessments based on the Big 5 Personality Traits, like Myers-Briggs, DiSC and Enneagram, are personality assessments which tend to be fixed over time. In contrast, your AgileBrain profile can vary significantly over time as a function of events around you that trigger emotions and actions you take to make positive change.
AgileBrain has been used in a variety of individual and organizational assessments, including personality and strengths assessments, leadership 360’s, multi-rater team assessments and employee engagement, DE&I and total rewards surveys.
When used in combination with traditional assessment measures, AgileBrain has been shown to significantly increase the explanatory power of many of the outcomes human resource professionals care about (e.g., emotional wellbeing, happiness/fulfillment, engagement, retention, performance).
Yes, because AgileBrain represents the full range of emotional needs and provides a quantifiable measure of emotional activation, it can be administered to groups. The results can reveal areas of strong activation in the group as well as subgroups at variance with the larger group. These results can promote powerful discussion and facilitate change efforts.
Leading Indicator Systems (or LIS for short) is a Boston (USA) firm dedicated to human capital research. LIS is proud to be the creator of AgileBrain, the break-through neuroscience-based emotional measurement tool. www.leadingindicator.com