Free assessment — EQ·Profile
How do you run under pressure?
Not how you think. How you actually do.
Most EQ tests measure your self-image. This one measures your behavior — what you really did in the hard moments of the last ninety days — across ten domains of emotional intelligence. You get your EQ archetype, your Growth Index, and the gap between what you know and what you actually do under pressure.
Your answers are private and never sold or shared. This is coaching and self-reflection, not medical diagnosis. A free debrief call is optional, never required.
Your EQ archetype
The Aware Bystander
“Sees the play, hesitates to make it.”
EQ Growth Index
Functional but inconsistent
Knowing-Doing Spectrum
“Your growth opportunity isn't more information; it is practicing your response before high-pressure moments.”
What is this emotional intelligence assessment?
The EQ Growth Profile is a free emotional intelligence assessment from 126 Coaching. It asks 76 behavioral items across 10 emotional intelligence domains, scored on what you actually did over the last ninety days — not how you see yourself. In about 10 minutes you get your Growth Index, your EQ archetype, and the gap between what you know about emotional intelligence and what you do under pressure.
Your EQ is running the show.
IQ gets you in the room. EQ decides what happens there.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to read what's happening inside you — and between you and other people — and to choose your response instead of being run by your reaction.
Think about where your last bad week actually came from. The deal that went sideways after a tense call. The conversation you avoided until it became a crisis. The snap reply you'd pay money to take back. None of that was an intelligence problem. All of it was an EQ moment — and those moments quietly decide your income, your relationships, and how heavy your stress feels.
Here's the part most people miss: unlike IQ, which stays roughly fixed your whole life, EQ is trainable. It responds to deliberate practice the way a muscle responds to reps. Which means the only thing standing between you and a higher EQ is knowing exactly where yours breaks down — and that's a measurement problem. Solvable in the next ten minutes.
You can't train what you haven't measured
Why this test reads differently.
Behavioral, not aspirational
You're scored on how you've actually responded over the last ninety days — especially during stress, conflict, disappointment, and emotionally charged conversations. Not how you'd like to think you respond.
It measures the knowing-doing gap
Most people know what the emotionally intelligent move is. The report separately scores your EQ knowledge and your EQ application — and shows you the gap between them. That gap is where coaching lives.
Built for action
You don't get a wall of numbers. You get your EQ archetype, your Growth Index, your under-pressure patterns, and one focused next move you can act on this week.
What does the EQ Growth Profile measure?
The EQ Growth Profile measures ten emotional intelligence domains, each scored 0–100 from your scenario responses. Every score reflects what you did over the last ninety days — during stress, conflict, and hard conversations — not your self-image.
- Emotional Self-Awareness — noticing what you are feeling while it is happening, not an hour after the conversation ends.
- Emotional Vocabulary & Pattern Recognition — naming emotions precisely and spotting the loops they run in you.
- Emotional Regulation & Recovery — settling yourself during stress and returning to baseline afterward.
- Impulse Control & Response Choice — the pause between trigger and reaction, and what you do with it.
- Stress Resilience — how you hold up when pressure stacks instead of arriving one problem at a time.
- Empathy & Emotional Attunement — reading what other people are feeling, even when they are not saying it.
- Perspective-Taking & Social Accuracy — seeing the situation from the other side and judging it correctly.
- Communication, Boundaries & Assertiveness — saying the hard thing clearly without attacking or disappearing.
- Conflict Repair & Relationship Management — going back after friction and fixing what the moment damaged.
- Growth Orientation & Adaptability — treating feedback, setbacks, and change as usable information instead of threats.
Each domain is scored 0–100 from your scenario responses, then broken into core strengths, growth priorities, and under-pressure patterns — with a personalized read on how you operate when it counts, and reflection questions to take further.
How does the free EQ assessment work?
Three steps. One honest mirror.
- 01
Tell us where to send your report
Enter your name and email. That is what connects your answers to your personalized report and delivers it to your inbox — nothing else is required to start.
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Answer based on what you actually did
Work through ten scenarios covering stress, conflict, disappointment, and emotionally charged conversations — 76 behavioral items in total. Score yourself on your real behavior over the last ninety days. The honest version is the useful version: the report is only as accurate as your answers.
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Get your Growth Index and next move
Your report arrives with your EQ archetype, your Growth Index, domain-by-domain scores, under-pressure patterns, and one focused next move you can act on this week. If you want help acting on it, bring the report to a free 20-minute discovery call and it becomes the starting map.
Your answers are private and never sold or shared. This is coaching and self-reflection, not medical diagnosis. A free debrief call is optional, never required.
Who is this EQ test for?
This EQ test is built for people whose results depend on how they operate under pressure: leaders, entrepreneurs, high-performers, and anyone whose last hard week traced back to an emotional moment rather than an information problem.
Leaders and entrepreneurs
When you run a business, your EQ is a business system. How you lead under stress, negotiate, sell, delegate, and handle conflict shows up in revenue and retention. The assessment gives the operator the same honest read you would want on the operation.
High-performers with a knowing-doing gap
You already know what the emotionally intelligent move is — you have read the books. The problem is what happens under pressure. Because the report scores EQ knowledge and EQ application separately, it shows you exactly how wide your knowing-doing gap is and where it opens.
Professionals navigating conflict or change
If your last bad week traced back to a tense call, an avoided conversation, or a reply you wish you could take back, those are EQ moments. The profile shows which domains those moments run through — and how quickly you recover from them.
Anyone considering coaching
The assessment is a low-friction starting point. It is free, takes about 10 minutes, and produces a concrete baseline you can bring to a free 20-minute discovery call — so the first coaching conversation starts from data instead of guesswork.
How to use your EQ score
Treat your EQ score as a baseline, not a verdict. The Growth Index shows where your responses under pressure already work and where they cost you — and because every score reflects the last ninety days of behavior, it marks a starting point you can train from.
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Start with the gap, not the number
Look at your EQ knowledge and EQ application scores side by side. If knowledge is high and application lags, more information will not help — the work is practicing your response before the high-pressure moment arrives. That distance is the knowing-doing gap, and it is where growth lives.
02
Pick one domain
Choose the domain that is costing you the most right now — usually your lowest score or the one attached to your hardest recurring moment. Do not try to train all ten at once. One domain, worked deliberately, beats ten domains skimmed.
03
Attach it to a real situation
Find the specific moment where that domain breaks down: the tense call, the conversation you keep postponing, the snap reply. Decide in advance what response you want to practice there. The report's reflection questions are built for exactly this.
04
Get support if the pattern will not move
Some patterns shift once you see them. Others keep repeating because there is a loop underneath the behavior. That is coaching territory. Brian Curtis — NLP-Trained Master Practitioner, Trainer of NLP, and NLP Certified Master Coach — works with clients remotely across the United States on exactly these loops. Book a free 20-minute discovery call via Calendly and bring your report.
After the assessment
Get your Growth Index, then book a free EQ debrief.
Bring your EQ Growth Profile to a free 20-minute conversation with Brian. We'll find the pressure pattern costing you the most and the first repair skill to practice.
Your report is the map. The debrief turns it into a plan.
Your answers are private and never sold or shared. This is coaching and self-reflection, not medical diagnosis. A free debrief call is optional, never required.
Questions about the EQ Growth Profile
Is this an emotional intelligence test?
Yes — with one difference from most EQ tests. Instead of measuring your self-image, the EQ Growth Profile scores 76 behavioral items on what you actually did over the last ninety days, especially during stress, conflict, and emotionally charged conversations.
How is the EQ Growth Profile scored?
Each of the ten domains is scored 0–100 from your scenario responses, based on your last-90-days behavior. The report also gives you an overall Growth Index and separately scores your EQ knowledge and your EQ application, so you can see the gap between them.
What does a high or low score mean?
A high domain score means your responses in that area have been working under real pressure. A low score marks a growth priority — a place where your reactions have been costing you. Neither is a fixed trait: the scores reflect recent behavior, and behavior can be trained.
Is this assessment clinical or diagnostic?
No. The EQ Growth Profile is a self-awareness and coaching tool, not a clinical instrument. It does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions, and coaching at 126 Coaching is not therapy. If you are working through a clinical concern, work with a licensed professional.
How can coaching improve my EQ?
Coaching turns the report into practice. Brian Curtis works with clients remotely across the United States, combining NLP, emotional intelligence work, and practical systems so clients can work toward more response choice under pressure, cleaner boundaries, and faster repair after conflict. It starts with a free 20-minute discovery call.
How long does the EQ assessment take?
About 10 minutes. You answer 76 behavioral items across ten real-world scenarios, and your personalized report — Growth Index, EQ archetype, domain scores, and one focused next move — is delivered to your email.
Ten minutes of honesty.
A map you'll use for years.
No pressure. 20 minutes. We’ll identify the pattern or bottleneck to work on first.