It’s a common misconception that it’s the workload that drains us. However, the true challenge lies in managing your internal emotional experience at work.
The reality is that stress can subtly undermine even the best leaders & professionals, leading to misunderstandings, frustration, emotional outbursts, and conflict.
While businesses and organizations rely on the effectiveness of each individual, many fail to consider how stress impacts their ability to perform.
Introducing the WE-I Profile. Unlike traditional subjective Emotional Intelligence (EQ) assessments, the WE-I Profile offers an objective approach that focuses on where your attention goes in moments of relational stress—revealing the inner dynamics that shape your actions when it matters most.
Wow. The WE-I profile is mind blowing! The awareness it created plus coaching has been transformative for me. I used to avoid conflict in all aspects of my life, and finally I understand why.
Now, I can transform potential setbacks into opportunities for growth. I ask better questions, make more educated decisions, connect and build stronger relationships, and now engage in difficult conversations.
It provides a personalized, highly accurate reflection of the thoughts, feelings, and desires driving your behaviour under stress — data drawn directly from your own input. Simply put, you get a real time snap shot of your internal experience, in the moment, in relationship, and under stress.
The data reveals how you respond under stress—your emotional range, where you place blame, whether you focus on risks or optimism, your relationship strategies, how you self-soothe, and your ability to empathize with others accurately and compassionately.
The WE-I Profile is the only Emotional Intelligence tool that captures your internal experience, allowing you to uncover your blind spots and bring awareness to your patterns of thinking, wanting, and feeling that have been shaped by your experience and relationships throughout your life. These deeply ingrained patterns may unknowingly hold you back, sabotaging opportunities, relationships, and overall success.
The WE-I Profile provides a snapshot of what gets in the way of our relating fully to others, ourselves, and the world, particularly under stress. This unique tool highlights the largely non-conscious patterns and thoughts, emotions, and desires that reflect how we’ve learned to cope, protect and defend ourselves in relationship over the course of our lives, especially within our earliest relationships.
By shining a light on our non-conscious patterns, the WE-I Profile provokes radically unique insights and provides a distinctive vocabulary for our specific internal experience. These insights allow for the development of more intentional responses to stress and conflict and point us to how we can gain greater agency over our behaviours and make choices that yields healthier, more mindful relationships in work and life.
The WE-I Profile simulates real-time stressful interpersonal interactions by presenting us with eight short video vignettes in which we are being challenged by another person.
Then we are presented with a series of statements and asked the degree to which the statements fit our experience of the interaction. Because the instrument is a real-time simulation and doesn’t ask what we would do or what we believe about ourselves and instead asks us what’s going on inside us, it captures hidden aspects of what drives our behavior under stress.
The WE-I profile is done virtually in your own time and takes about 30-45 mins in total.
The WE-I Profile captures our internal experience (not our behavior) under stress (because that’s when relationships can be challenging) in the moment (not upon reflection) and in relationship (not by ourselves).
It measures our ability, capacity, and willingness to:
In short, it reveals and measures the aspects of our internal experience that inform and drive our behavior when we experience tension or conflict with another person.
Helping teams do what they already want to do, better, and faster
Uncover the unique ways a team or group shows up when stressed. Identify the blind spots holding them back, and discover the targeted skills needed to boost productivity and foster collaboration, particularly under stress.
The Team WE-I Profile reveals both obstacles and gifts in the team’s collective internal experience under stress which, when understood and leveraged, leads to breakthrough results.
This developmental tool is unlike any other on the market. It reveals a team’s innate response to stress and how it impacts their behavior and performance. In doing so, it creates an opening for a dialogue about the patterns and narratives that are playing out and how to work together to create new behaviors that lead to better team performance.
The WE-I Profile…
The WE-I Profile is not like assessments commonly used with teams like the DISC or MBTI. It is unrelated to personality or style and it is not used to improve communication. It does promote awareness and understanding of self to facilitate better understanding of others which leads to better team performance.
Team reports present the combined WE-I Profile data of a team, dimension by dimension and provides value by providing insights into both behavioral and performance issues that are integrally related to people’s underlying nonconscious patterns.
With the WE-I Profile you’ll be able to help coach your team through performance challenges, interpersonal conflicts, developmental areas of opportunity, and much more.
At the Institute of Curiosity, we empower individuals and teams to tackle tough conversations with confidence by revealing how stress impacts performance —essential skills for building relationships that can thrive in today’s fast-paced workplace.
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