The Thriving Index® Assessment

Discovering Your Signature Strengths

The Thriving Index® assesses 34 critical strengths such as grit, resilience, growth mindset, empathy, efficacy, agility and courage to thrive at work, helping individuals, teams and organizations with self-awareness into their signature strengths and potential blindspots. Feedback and insights from The Thriving Index® can be leveraged as part of talent identification, high potential, succession planning, leadership projects for self-development, learning, individual, group and team coaching and training programs.

A Powerful Behavioral Assessment Tool.

The Thriving Index® is a leading-edge, contemporary psychometric assessment and educational series grounded in the latest research in positive psychology and the science of strengths, along with a firm foundation in personality theory and traditional psychology. Measuring a total of 34 factors across 6 dimensions, The Thriving Index® provides insights into what influences and drives behavior of individuals, leaders and teams.

What Makes The
Thriving Index^® Unique?

What It Measures

The Thriving Index® measures strengths that are essential to navigating, leading and thriving at work. Our assessment measures unique factors including grit, resilience, growth mindset, efficacy, empathy, agility and courage.

Predictive Validity

Based on a decade of research and extensive validation studies, The Thriving Index® is predictive of critical outcomes such as employee performance, engagement and future potential, as well as happiness and well-being.

Unique Talent Insights

The Thriving Index® provides a precise, insightful view into the signature strengths as well as possible blindspots of individuals, leaders and teams, helping organizations understand, manage and develop talent.

Linkage to Recruitment and Development

The tool can be seamlessly mapped to core behavioral and leadership competencies providing a clear recommendation on overall fitment for recruitment or insights into the current and future potential of employees and leaders.

Employee Transformation

At Mercer Talent Enterprise, we believe that while ‘personality informs, strengths transform’. Research into the science of strengths has proven that developing one’s strengths leads to significant gains in performance, productivity and positivity.

Strengths Based Organizations

Building strengths-based organizations is no longer the ‘right-thing-to-do’, but the ‘smart-thing-to-do’ with proven metrics on customer satisfaction, performance and productivity, employee engagement and retention as well as sales and business growth.

Explore The Thriving Index^® strengths circumplex, with 6 orientations and 34 factors.

The Science.

90% accuracy in candidate selection and fitment decisions based on insights from the The Thriving Index® factors
An average of 71% variance explained for each competency while mapping The Thriving Index® factors to Mercer Talent Enterprise’s Global Behavioral Framework
Seven of The Thriving Index® factors together explain 36% variance in employee engagement, with individual factor wise regression coefficients of compliance (0.09), systematic (0.08), accountability (-0.10), sociable (0.07), purpose (0.39), awareness (0.10) and ambition (0.10).
Energy, optimism and mastery were also found to be predictive of happiness. These 3 factors together explain 44% variance in happiness, with beta values (standardized coefficients) of 0.24 for energy, 0.25 for optimism and -0.17 for mastery.
Growth, energy and grit were found to be predictive of engagement. These 3 factors together explain 26% variance in engagement, with beta values (standardized coefficients) of 0.22 for growth, 0.25 for energy and 0.17 for grit.
Efficacy, resourcefulness, energy and resilience were found to be predictive of life satisfaction. These 4 factors together explain 35% variance in life satisfaction, with beta values (standardized coefficients) of 0.19 for efficacy, 0.27 for resourcefulness, 0.16 for energy and 0.22 for resilience.
Finally, energy was found to be predictive of lower burnout levels. On its own, energy explains 18% variance in burnout, with a beta value of 0.21. This data is really crucial in establishing and affirming the suitability and predictability of using The Thriving Index® with the youth.
Majority of The Thriving Index® factors differentiate high potential leaders from the rest, with 50% more resilience, 63% higher efficacy, 58% more growth mindset, 51% more accountability and 42% more autonomy.

(Source: Mercer Talent Enterprise, The Thriving Index® Technical Manual)

The Thriving Index^® Result Summary

The circumplex below summarizes a candidates score on each of the 34 strengths measured through The Thriving Index® assessment.

The Impact.

“The Thriving Index® gives us scientific insight on our talent. We’ve seen its accuracy be proven time and time again.”

“The Thriving Index® tool has been both insightful and useful in working with leadership teams around building on their individual and collective strengths.”

“A key aspect of our leadership program was to build self-awareness amongst the participants. The Thriving Index® has been extremely effective in achieving this. Backed by evidence and measuring extremely relevant workplace attributes, the tool has helped over 500+ employees across 3 levels identify their inherent strengths, blindspots and motivations.”