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Maximizing Personal and Professional Growth: The Power of Assessments
Have you ever considered how your mindset influences the way you navigate daily challenges? Do you feel confident in how you show up in different aspects of your life and career? Assessments offer valuable insights into your strengths, challenges, and opportunities for growth, helping you gain a clearer understanding of how you interact with the world around you.
At Aspire Healthcare Professional Coaching, we believe that self-awareness is the foundation of both personal and professional well-being. This issue of The Well-being Compass focuses on the Energy Leadership Index (ELI) and ELI 360, powerful tools designed to help healthcare professionals at all levels—physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, therapists, and other allied health professionals—gain a deeper understanding of how they perceive and interact with the world.
The ELI provides insight into the filters through which individuals experience their daily lives, influencing their reactions, decisions, and overall mindset. By recognizing these patterns, individuals can make conscious choices that align with their values and goals.
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How Assessments Can Elevate your Well-Being
Assessments serve as a mirror into our mindset, behaviors and patterns - offering powerful insights that drive personal and professional growth.
They help healthcare professionals:
Understand their natural tendencies and behavioral patterns.
Recognize how they respond to stress and challenges.
Develop strategies to improve communication, problem-solving, and collaboration.
Enhance overall well-being by fostering a more positive and adaptive mindset.
While tools like DiSC, StrengthsFinder, and MBTI offer valuable insights into personality and behavior, the Energy leadership Index (ELI) and ELI 360 go a step further by assessing how you show up (energy shifts) in different circumstances and how those shifts impact your performance, interactions, and personal fulfillment.
Energy Awareness: A Game Changer in Healthcare
Balancing patient care, administrative demands and personal life can be overwhelming. Whether you are in direct patient care, an administrative role, or juggling multiple responsibilities, your energy influences everything—from decision-making to workplace relationships.
Two key types of energy affect your performance daily:
Catabolic Energy: (Draining & Stress-Induced)
Often fueled by pressure, frustration, or exhaustion
Can lead to burnout, reactivity, and strained relationships
Anabolic Energy: (Constructive & Growth-Oriented)
Supports creativity, engagement, and problem solving
Leads to greater adaptability, collaboration, and fulfillment
The ELI framework helps healthcare professionals, administrators, and support staff recognize where their energy is spent - so they can make intentional shifts that prevent burnout and promote long- term well-being.
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What is the Energy Leadership Index (ELI)?
Unlike traditional personality assessments that categorize individuals into fixed types, the ELI is a research-backed attitudinal assessment that measures your energy across seven levels. These levels reflect how you show up in your daily life, particularly under stress and in professional interactions.
The ELI helps individuals:
Identify patterns of reactive vs. proactive energy.
Recognize how their mindset influences interactions, decision making, and leadership.
Learn strategies to shift from stress-driven reactions to intentional, empowered responses.
By understanding these energy levels, healthcare professionals at all levels can develop greater resilience, adaptability, and engagement, leading to improved workplace satisfaction, teamwork, and patient care.
The ELI 360: Expanding Your Awareness Through Feedback
Beyond self-awareness, understanding how others perceive you is a key to professional and personal growth. The ELI 360 provides a multi-dimension perspective, incorporating feedback from colleagues, supervisors, and team members. This helps healthcare professionals:
Identify blind spots and opportunities for growth.
Strengthen interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence
Improve communication, teamwork, and resilience in high-stakes environments
For those working in fast-paced healthcare settings, the ELI 360 provides practical strategies to enhance collaboration, reduce stress, and build stronger professional relationships.
Personal Growth Through Awareness
One of the most powerful aspects of the ELI is its ability to spark transformational change. Consider this scenario:
A seasoned physician took the ELI and discovered that under stress, they are frequently operating in a conflict-driven state, leading to tension with colleagues. By recognizing this pattern, they developed strategies to shift toward an opportunity-focused thinking state, improving team communication and reducing workplace stress.
These types of insights help professionals move from reactive response to intentional, empowering interactions, fostering both personal well-being and a more positive work environment.
What Energy Are You Leading With Today?
Understanding your energy and professional tendencies is the first step toward meaningful change. Are you operating from a place of stress and reaction, or are you engaging with confidence, clarity, and purpose?
Aspire Healthcare Professional Coaching offers both the ELI and ELI 360 assessments to help professionals like you unlock your full potential.
References
Waldorf L. Increasing Leadership Potential & Life Satisfaction with Core Energy Coaching™. iPEC Coaching. Published March 1, 2023. Accessed here.
iPEC Coaching. The Effects of Core Energy™ on Leadership Competencies. Published online. Accessed here.
Forbes Coaches Council. 11 Assessments Every Executive Should Take. Forbes. Published May 1, 2018. Accessed here.
IPEC Coaching. Increasing Leadership Potential & Life Satisfaction with Core Energy Coaching™. ResearchGate. Accessed here.
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