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These performance studies
illustrate successes our clients can attribute
to Adversity Quotient® (AQ®) solutions.
Client: A Major
Global Technology Company
 Sample: 151 senior and executive
level leaders.
Overview: Understanding the need
for high-performance leadership, leaders completed the one-day AQ
program followed by a 90-day, weekly web-based AQ reinforcement
program.
This company sought to measure several variables beyond
AQ and CORE, among them being perceived stress, level of engagement,
perceived control, and one's ability to cope with adversity.
Results:
 The
mean AQ score for this group rose from a 151.9 to a 168.5, or from
"moderate" to "moderately high"
Statistically
significant correlation between one or more of the CORE dimensions
of AQ and the items listed above with one exception
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Performance
Category |
AQ Training Results |
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Stress on the job |
14% decrease in those reporting "a lot"
or "maximum stress" in their job (statistically
significant)
Post-training, no one reported "maximum stress" |
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Engagement |
11%
increase in those who felt "highly" or "extremely
highly" engaged. This number was already high in the
pre-survey, therefore this increase is not statistically significant |
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Coping with adversity |
43% increase in those who agreed or strongly
agreed that they possessed the skills, knowledge, and abilities
to thrive in an environment of constant change |
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Stress
management |
42%
increase in those who agreed or strongly agreed that they
manage stress in ways that enhance their effectiveness in
their job |
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Control over factors that affect stress |
45% increase in those who felt that they
could "mostly" or "completely" influence
that factors that affect their stress, energy, and engagement
in their job |
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Stress
associated with greatest challenge |
57%
decrease in those who perceived their greatest challenge as
"highly" or "extremely" stressful.
36% increase in those who saw their challenge as "hardly
stressful" or "not stressful at all" |
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