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ASSESSMENT

Adaptability Profile

How someone responds when the work changes under them.

Twenty-four short statements across four facets show where change comes easily and where it costs effort. Useful before a restructure, a new system or an AI rollout, when you need to know who will steady the team and who will need support.

  • 24 statements across 4 facets plus a validity scale
  • 27 questions
  • ~8 minutes
  • Taken in the assessment portal

You receive

  • An overall Adaptability Index in one of five bands
  • Scores on four facets of workplace adaptability
  • Strongest facet and main growth area
  • Individual PDF report

What the Adaptability Profile measures

Adaptability is not one thing. Someone can welcome new ideas and still lose their footing under pressure, so the profile reports four facets separately.

Openness to Change

Whether variety and new ways of working are welcomed, or tolerated until things settle back to how they were.

Composure Under Pressure

Staying steady when plans fall apart, and how quickly someone recovers after a setback.

Flexible Thinking

Taking advice, letting go of a first plan, and adjusting when someone else changes the approach.

Learning and Resourcefulness

Picking up what an unfamiliar situation needs and finding a way through when there is no playbook.

How it is scored

Each facet is the average of its six statements, from 1.00 to 5.00. About half the statements are worded in the opposite direction, so a high score always means more adaptable and agreeing with everything does not inflate the result. The overall Adaptability Index is the simple average of the four facets.

The lowest facet matters most

The report names the strongest facet and the main growth area. A good overall index can hide one facet that limits the rest, and that facet is usually where development should start.

What you receive

An overall index and four facet scores, each placed in one of five bands with a short description. The number shown against each band below is the top of its range.

Anchored1.99
1.00 to 1.99. A strong preference for stability here; change in this area is likely to feel costly.
Cautious2.74
2.00 to 2.74. Can adapt here, but it takes effort and tends to wait for proof first.
Balanced3.49
2.75 to 3.49. Adapts when the case is clear; the response depends on the situation.
Adaptable4.24
3.50 to 4.24. Usually adjusts well, and others can rely on them when things shift.
Highly Adaptable5
4.25 to 5.00. A clear strength; at ease in this area when work changes.
Band definitions — not real results

Who it is for

Before a major change

A new system, a restructure or an AI rollout. Know in advance where the change will land easily and where it will need support.

Managers leading change

People who have to keep a team steady while the ground moves need to know their own pattern first.

Alongside AI Readiness

AI Readiness reads the conditions for adoption; this profile reads the person. Together they show where resistance is likely to come from.

Rigour

How this instrument was built

Model and provenance
A four-facet profile of workplace adaptability, designed by OurEQLIFE. It is a standalone instrument and shares no items with the adaptability competency in the Emotional Intelligence Profile.
Item source
The 24 facet statements are drawn from the International Personality Item Pool, a public domain collection of personality items maintained for research use. Three further in-house statements check how the questionnaire was answered.
Psychometrics
  • Four facets of six statements each, about half reverse-keyed
  • Facet scores from 1.00 to 5.00; the overall index is the mean of the four facets
  • Five descriptive bands, which do not compare the person with anyone else
  • Three response-quality statements, reported separately and never used to alter a score

This profile describes how a person reports their own response to change at one point in time. It is not a measure of ability, and it is not a basis for hiring, promotion or performance decisions.

Common questions

How long does it take?
About eight minutes. There are 27 short statements, each rated from "very much unlike me" to "very much like me".
Does a high score mean someone is better?
No. The bands describe how someone answered, not how good they are, and they do not compare anyone with anyone else. A preference for stability is useful in plenty of roles; the profile shows where change will cost effort.
How is this different from the adaptability competency in the Emotional Intelligence Profile?
They are separate instruments with different questions. The Emotional Intelligence Profile treats adaptability as one of 21 emotional and social competencies. This profile looks only at adaptability, in four facets, so it is the better choice when change is the main question.
Can it be used for hiring?
No. It is a development profile: a starting point for a conversation about how someone handles change, not a basis for selection or performance decisions.

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