About Your Optimal Thinking 360 Assessment

The Optimal Thinking 360 Assessment is a comprehensive evaluation that measures how consistently you use Optimal Thinking - the highest form of thinking - in every area of your life and work.

Unlike traditional personality or behavioral assessments, it evaluates the quality of your thinking and decision-making by gathering feedback from multiple perspectives, including your own and, when appropriate, colleagues, supervisors, direct reports, clients, family members, or friends.

The result is a complete picture of your thinking strengths, blind spots, and best opportunities for growth.

Optimal Thinking is the practice of identifying and choosing the best possible thinking in every situation. Instead of settling for negative thinking or suboptimal positive thinking, Optimal Thinking enables you to focus on the best actions to achieve the best outcomes. The assessment measures how consistently you apply Optimal Thinking at work and in everyday life.

Most assessments describe who you are. The Optimal Thinking 360 Assessment helps you understand how well you think - and how to become the best version of yourself. Rather than assigning personality types or behavioral styles, it measures how consistently you choose the best possible thinking in situations involving:

• Decision-making
• Leadership
• Communication
• Relationships
• Problem solving
• Prioritization
• Conflict resolution
• Accountability
• Goal achievement
• Personal effectiveness

It is designed not merely to describe your performance, but to optimize it - showing you how to optimize your thinking, decisions, and communications.

We all have blind spots. Our view of ourselves often differs from how others experience us.

A 360-degree assessment combines feedback from multiple perspectives to provide a more complete and objective understanding of your thinking, leadership effectiveness, communication, and decision-making.

The assessment is valuable for:

• Anyone committed to personal excellence
• Professionals seeking career advancement
• CEOs, executives, and senior leaders
• Managers and emerging leaders
• Business owners and entrepreneurs
• Coaches and consultants

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Most personality assessments identify preferences, traits, or behavioral tendencies. The Optimal Thinking 360 Assessment evaluates something much more actionable: the quality of your thinking and performance.

Rather than placing you into a category or type, it helps you make the best decisions in any circumstance.

No. Those assessments primarily describe personality, preferences, or strengths.

The Optimal Thinking 360 Assessment focuses on whether you consistently choose the highest-quality thinking across situations and how others experience your decision-making, communications, and leadership. The assessment provides a roadmap for peak performance rather than simply describing personality traits or current characteristics.

Your assessment helps you understand:

• How effectively you think under pressure
• Your greatest thinking strengths
• Your leadership blind spots
• Where your thinking differs from others' perceptions
• Opportunities to optimize communication
• Ways to maximize relationships
• How to make the right decisions consistently
• Practical recommendations for continuous optimization

Most participants complete the assessment in approximately 15 to 20 minutes. Additional respondents generally require less time.

Take the Assessment

Depending on the purpose of the assessment, participants may include:

• Yourself
• Supervisors, peers, and direct reports
• Clients and business partners
• Family members and friends

The combination provides a balanced, comprehensive perspective.

Yes. Individual responses remain confidential. Feedback is aggregated to encourage honest input and provide meaningful insights while protecting respondents' privacy.

Absolutely. Organizations use the Optimal Thinking 360 Assessment to:

• Develop leaders
• Optimize executive effectiveness
• Maximize team communications and accountability
• Support succession planning
• Build the healthiest organizational cultures

Explore the Corporate Program

Exceptional leadership begins with exceptional thinking. Optimum leadership begins with Optimal Thinking. The assessment identifies opportunities to optimize:

• Strategic thinking
• Decision quality
• Emotional maturity
• Accountability
• Communication

Employee engagement surveys measure employee opinions about the organization.

The Optimal Thinking 360 Assessment evaluates the thinking and leadership effectiveness of an individual and provides practical guidance for optimization.

Yes. One of the greatest strengths of the Optimal Thinking 360 Assessment is that it doesn't simply identify strengths and weaknesses - it provides actionable guidance for optimizing the quality of your thinking - and optimum personal and professional results.

Every result in business and life begins with a decision.

Higher-quality thinking leads to:

• Better decisions
• Better leadership
• Better relationships
• Better communication
• Better priorities
• Better performance
• Better outcomes

Optimizing your thinking creates a ripple effect that optimizes every aspect of your life and career.

After taking the Assessment, you gain access to your personalized Home Page which houses your Self-Optimization Report. You are then able to invite others (Observers) to offer their input.

You can invite Observers via email to complete an online Observer Assessment about you. By inviting Observers to complete an Assessment about you, you are able to acquire a 360 degree view of yourself. You can invite an unlimited number of Observers to complete the Assessment within the defined time frame at no additional cost. You simply provide the Observer's name and email address, and the invitation is sent automatically. An extensive knowledge base is available to handle any questions you might have.

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The Assessment

After you receive access to the Assessment from our Administrator, you answer 50 questions online.

The Self-Optimization Report

You receive a comprehensive and personalized Self-Optimization Report online immediately after you complete the online Assessment. The Report is a vital resource to understand and optimize yourself. You will receive a description of your dominant and other thinking styles, core motivator, stressors, usual performance level, and strategies for maximizing communications and effectiveness in business and personal situations. You will gain access to a personalized eChart of your self-assessed thinking styles. The Self-Optimization Report is accurate, but it only provides you with your own view of yourself.

The Composite Report

You may be aware of your own thoughts, motives, and behavior. An Observer however, may have additional insight into your thinking, interaction style and performance.

After five Observers have responded to your invitation to assess them, you will receive a Composite Report (Self plus Observers) online. We recommend 10 or more Observers for anonymous, accurate feedback. This Composite Report is a critical component because it completes the 360 degree perspective. Note: Observers do not have access to your Report.

As soon as an Observer completes an Assessment about you, the result is plotted on your personal eChart. With this information at your fingertips, you will learn how to best deploy your thinking, to optimize your interactions and performance.

Log in to Your Portal

Your Home Page is a private online home page that allows you to:

• Access your 50-question Assessment.
• Invite Observers to complete the online Observer Assessment about you.
• View all the Observers you have invited and see who has completed the Observer Assessment and who hasn't. When Observers haven't yet completed the Assessment, you can send an automatic reminder email requesting the Observer's participation.
• View and print the comprehensive, personalized Self-Optimization Report in PDF format.
• View and print the personalized eCharts.
• View and print the Composite Report, which includes the Observers' responses.

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Yes. The Optimal Thinking 360 Assessment can be integrated into coaching, leadership development, training, and organizational development programs. It provides personalized self-assessment and when observers participate, 360° feedback can reveal strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots. Organizations can use the results to identify development priorities, support coaching and training, and optimize team and organizational performance. Administrators can choose when participants receive their reports, making the assessment particularly useful when results are reviewed as part of coaching or training sessions.

Explore the Corporate Program

After you complete the assessment - or any time you log back in - your reports are available on your personal Home Page. Your Self-Optimization Report is ready immediately after you complete your own assessment. Your Composite Report becomes available once at least 5 of your invited Observers have completed their Observer Assessment about you. From your Home Page, you can view and print both reports in PDF format at any time.

Log in to Your Portal

Your member account password is never stored in plain text - it is protected using industry-standard hashing (bcrypt), so it cannot be reversed or read by anyone, including us. All data transmitted between your browser and our servers is encrypted using HTTPS/TLS. As noted above, individual assessment responses are also kept confidential and are only shown in aggregated form, protecting respondent privacy for both individual members and corporate accounts. Your data is never shared or sold to any third party.