Adaptability Quotient

Boost Your Adaptability Intelligence with AQai’s Adaptability Quotient

Adaptability is a learnable skill, and you can improve yours, starting today. AQai’s Adaptability Quotient boosts Adaptability Intelligence to help individuals and teams thrive through change.
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Why measure Adaptability?

In The Next 10 Years, Its Projected...

of startups will fold​
0 %
of Small & Medium Enterprises will fail​
0 %
of the Fortune 500 will disappear​
0 %

The reasons for failure may include…

  • Economic shifts
  • Lack of cash flow or profitability
  • Poor leadership and decision-making
  • Uncompetitive products or services
  • Outdated structures, systems, and processes
  • Technological disruptions

Sources: Small Business Administration, Harvard Business Review, Forbes

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Adaptability Quotient

Why measure Adaptability

Adaptability is measured because it predicts future success amid change. It helps individuals thrive through uncertainty, overcome setbacks, embrace learning, and stay relevant in evolving environments. It’s trainable, measurable, and mission-critical.

What is Adaptability Quotient?

Adaptability Quotient (AQ) is your measurable ability to adapt and thrive in the face of change, uncertainty, and disruption. It goes beyond intelligence (IQ) or emotional intelligence (EQ) by assessing how well someone can:

  • Adjust thoughts and behaviors in changing conditions.
  • Let go of outdated habits or beliefs that no longer serve them.
  • Stay mentally and emotionally resilient when faced with challenges.
  • Engage effectively in environments that support/resist change.
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Applications of the AQ Report

Leverage strategic insight into how individuals and teams respond to change.
The AQ Report delivers a data-driven analysis across 15 adaptability dimensions, enabling leaders to decode behavioral patterns, identify growth potential, and foster a culture of resilience. Move from reactive operations to adaptive performance with actionable intelligence that drives transformation.

Personal Development

Helps individuals build awareness of their adaptability strengths and growth areas.
Use case: Set learning goals, develop resilience, enhance flexibility, and strengthen mindset.

Team Development

Enables teams to understand collective adaptability dynamics and collaboration strengths.
Use case: Identify misalignments like high grit + low team support (burnout risk), or emotional range + work stress (emotional resilience opportunities).

Organizational Insights

Provides leaders and HR with data-driven insight into adaptability trends across departments or the whole org.
Use case: Inform talent strategies, culture change, transformation readiness, and reskilling priorities.

Change Readiness & Reskilling Strategy

Maps adaptability to future-of-work needs, including transformation readiness and upskilling potential.
Use case: Leverage Change Readiness Index and Reskill Index to inform workforce planning, L&D, and innovation readiness.

What makes the AQai Adaptability Quotient Unique?

Take a 25-minute interactive, conversational assessment that helps you explore the challenges you face and how you respond. Uncover your unique adaptability profile across 15 key sub-dimensions, from mindset and grit to hope and team support.

Instant Results

Engage in our unique conversational assessment to gain personalized, evidence-based insights. Easily connect the dots, spark meaningful reflection, and begin your change journey with clarity, confidence, and the traction needed for sustainable growth.

Increased Success

  • 20% increase in productivity with high resilience. Source
  • 33% Reduction in WorkStress with high team support. Source
  • 33% Ability Character Enviroment Higher chance of employment. Source

Science-based

Based on research across 100+ scientific publications and collaborations in academia, business, and science, our assessment is built on best-in-class psychometric standards and advanced analytical principles to ensure rigor and relevance.

Actionable Insights

Understanding your AQ scores is powerful—but discovering how to actively improve them through targeted exercises, activities, and short lessons is transformational. Access videos, podcasts, book recommendations, and more – available for some dimensions, with more coming soon!

AQme ACE Model

AQ Ability

This dimension measures trainable skills and behaviors directly tied to adapting. It answers the question: How and to what degree do I adapt?

Grit

Grit

The drive to persevere and stay committed to long-term goals despite challenges.

Mental Flexibility

Mental Flexibility

The skill to shift thinking and embrace multiple perspectives in uncertain situations.

Mindset

Mindset

The belief that change leads to growth and that you can adapt through effort and learning.

Resilience

Resilience

The capacity to recover and bounce back quickly from setbacks or stress.

Unlearn

Unlearn

The intentional ability to let go of outdated knowledge or behaviours to make room for new ones.

AQ Character

This dimension reflects your internal traits and preferences that influence adaptive behaviour. It answers the question: Who adapts and why?

Emotional Range

Emotional Range

The degree to which you experience and manage emotional responses during change.

Extraversion

Extraversion

How much you seek connection with others versus solitude when navigating change.

Hope

Hope

Your belief in a positive future and your ability to find or create paths to reach it.

Motivation Style

Motivation Style

Whether you’re driven more by achieving success (Play to Win) or avoiding failure (Play to Protect) when adapting.

Thinking Style

Thinking Style

How you process information, focusing on big-picture visions, detailed steps, or balancing both, when responding to change.

AQ Environment

This dimension assesses how your external context supports or hinders adaptability. It answers the question: When does someone adapt, and to what degree?

Company Support

Company Support

The extent to which you feel your organization values your contributions and well-being.

Emotional Health

Emotional Health

How often you experience positive emotional states and feel mentally well at work.

Team Support

Team Support

The degree to which you feel psychologically safe, supported, and able to share openly with your team.

Work Environment

Work Environment

How much your workplace encourages innovation, experimentation, and adaptive behaviors.

Work Stress

Work Stress

The level of overload, pressure, or overwhelm you feel, high scores here signal unhealthy stress.

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FAQs on Adaptability Quotient

Adaptability Quotient (AQ) is the ability to respond effectively to change, uncertainty, and new information. It’s a better predictor of future success than IQ or EQ in a rapidly changing world.

The AQai assessment measures 15 dimensions of adaptability across Ability, Character, and Environment using science-backed psychometrics and behavioral insights.

Yes. AQ is a trainable skill, not a fixed trait. With practice in areas like mindset, resilience, and unlearning, individuals can significantly raise their adaptability levels.

EQ relates to managing emotions, while AQ includes adapting behaviors, embracing change, and responding to complex environments. Both are essential but AQ focuses more on agility in action.

Grit, Mindset and Hope are three key AQ sub-dimensions for adaptive leadership.

The AQai assessment identifies readiness and blockers for change, helping leaders design targeted interventions for individuals and teams during transformation.

AQ sub-dimensions like Work Stress and Emotional Health measure how environments impact adaptability and can signal risk of burnout before it escalates.

Unlearning is the process of letting go of outdated methods and beliefs. It enables individuals to adapt faster by clearing mental space for new thinking.

Absolutely. AQai provides a data-driven way to evaluate candidates’ adaptability potential and support ongoing development within learning or leadership pathways. However, care must be taken to not use the report as a screening or rejection tool.

You can book an assessment through certified AQai partners like Synergogy to begin measuring and improving your team’s adaptability across key dimensions. Simply write to us at info@synergogy.com for more information.

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