Bruce Elkin 

ADVERSITY QUOTIENT (AQ)®

"Adversity Quotient will show that you have more control over events than you think. The key is changing beliefs. Believe it or not, that can usually be done in One Minute."

- Ken Blanchard, The One Minute Manager

Personal Life and Success Coaching to Increase Resilience and AQ

Adversity Quotient (AQ)® is a global predictor of individual, team and organizational resilience and success.

Adversity Quotient (AQ) is a scientific measure your personal and team resilience-how you habitually respond to and deal with adversity.

AQ is based on the groundbreaking adversity and resilience research of Dr. Paul Stoltz, author of Adversity Quotient, and founder of Peak Learning, Inc. I was the first Canadian licenced by Paul to offer this service.

I use AQ in my personal success coaching and business coaching to help people objectively assess how they react to problems and difficulties.

Research shows that under stress, we often distort our current reality by such habits as judgmental self-talk, pessimistic explanations, a victim stance, and "poor me" stories. Such low AQ responses provide a poor foundation upon which to take actions that support the results we want to create.

The first step toward increasing your Adversity Quotient and building your resilience is to measure your current AQ.

Adversity Quotient is measured by the Adversity Response Profile® (ARP). The ARP® is a highly valid assessment instrument based on 25 years of research and 1000+ studies at more than 150 universities and organizations worldwide. Unlike IQ, AQ can be improved!

What is the Adversity Response Profile®?The Adversity Response Profile® is a simple, scientifically validated way to measure core aspects of your emotional intelligence and resilience. Your adversity quotient provides a snapshot of the habitual way you respond to problems and adversity.

The ARP measures such Adversity Quotient CORE skills as:

Control: the amount of control you perceive you have over adverse events and their effects,
Ownership: the extent to which you own and take responsibility for the outcomes of adversity and your responses to it,
Reach: the degree to which you let adversity reach into other areas of your life,
Endurance: how long you perceive the adversity will last or endure.

An Adversity Quotient assessment with the ARP shows you where you are resilient in the face of adversity and where you're not. It explains why you might stall, compromise, or give up when things get difficult.

Combined with personal life coaching or success coaching, the ARP results can help you significantly increase your AQ and fluency in the CORE skills.

By improving your AQ and the CORE Skills, you increase your optimism and resiliency. You also increase your capacity to create what matters most to you.

To set up an Adversity Quotient assessment on-line, followed by a one-session personal success process, or for more information about AQ, please e-mail me with "AQ Assessment" in the subject line.

ADVERSITY QUOTIENT and SUCCESS COACHING for SALES

Companies that use the ARP to measure staff and manager's AQ have produced results such as these:

• Realtors increase their sales by 250% to 320%!
• Life insurance sales people nearly doubled their effectiveness!
• A Telecommunications company found those in the top half of AQ scores outsold those in the bottom half by 166%, 150% and 106%.