How WIS® Assessment Works

The WIS® Assessment measures 27 psychosocial categories that combine 9 dimensions and 12 well-being competencies. They reflect Leadership, Team, and Individual well-being, providing insight on Resilience, Agility, Relational and System path to thriving and well-being.

YOUR Results

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The spiritual dimension, pivotal to the well-being intelligence system, represents the core of our being, driving passion and energy. It involves self-awareness, aligning values with actions, and harmonizing inner spirituality with the external world. This dimension is crucial for finding life’s meaning, connecting with a higher power, and fostering hope and purpose. It shapes our beliefs, integrity, identity, and core values, influencing our sense of balance and how we are perceived by others, thus impacting social interactions.

Competency – Integrity

In this dimension, we focus on integrity, ranging from level 1 to 8 in well-being competency. Your score indicates the extent to which you demonstrate integrity in daily life and interactions. Living with integrity involves aligning actions with values. Our values, informed by beliefs, culture, religion, and social interactions, guide our choices and lifestyles. Adherence to these values enhances personal integrity, balance, self-esteem, and overall well-being. The closer we align with our true values, the more we experience life positively and impact our relationships with others.

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Key life area categories within this dimension provide a framework for understanding how these aspects relate to every facet of your life and relationships. These categories offer a perspective for deeper engagement with the dimension, though they may be classified differently in other contexts.

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The Social Wellness Dimension evaluates your ability to effectively interact within your social circle, underscoring the fundamental human need for socialization. It encompasses a range of relationships including those with friends, family, colleagues, and community members, and assesses your skill in managing these varied interpersonal connections. Stephen Joyce, in his work "Teaching the Anthill to Fetch," emphasizes the importance of efficiently utilizing the energy and resources in these networks. He notes that negative assumptions can often impede deeper involvement in our networks, thus limiting access to potential opportunities in our lives.

Social Wellness Competency – Responsible Communication

Responsible communication involves adhering to the cultural norms of various groups, whether in the workplace, social circles, clubs, or religious communities. It is crucial to understand these cultural dynamics and strategize communication to minimize interpersonal conflicts. Groups often observe new members before acceptance, making it essential to communicate in a way that aligns with how you wish to be perceived and achieve your intended outcomes. This competency focuses on using the energy of your network effectively for positive social outcomes and success.

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The key life area categories within the Social Wellness Dimension offer a framework for deeper understanding and engagement. While these categories provide one approach to classifying life areas, they may vary in other contexts. Their purpose is to enhance the meaning and depth you derive from each life area in relation to all aspects of your life and relationships.

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Emotional Wellness is anchored in self-mastery, an essential competency for managing emotions and enhancing wellness in all life aspects. This dimension centers on the ability to understand, scrutinize, and regulate your thoughts and attitudes, thereby guiding your emotional responses. High emotional fitness is key to living in alignment with your values and sustaining balanced social interactions. Self-mastery, as a crucial component of emotional wellness, empowers you to direct your life and relationships. Your score in this dimension reflects your current proficiency in self-mastery and emotional regulation, serving as a starting point for further development and enriching the emotional wellness within your relationships.

What is Self-Mastery?

Self-mastery involves a deep connection with oneself and one's life choices, dedicating time for critical thinking about decisions, and evaluating your actions and self-reflection. It means distinguishing your identity from your emotions and acknowledging that you are a complete individual with a spectrum of emotional experiences. It entails comparing your life's outcomes with your set goals to gauge your control over your emotions and their influence on your decisions. Developing emotional fitness is a proactive journey towards self-mastery.

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The key life area categories within the Emotional Wellness Dimension provide a structure for a more profound understanding and engagement. While this approach offers one way to classify these life areas, they can be viewed differently in other contexts. The intention is to enhance the significance and depth extracted from each life area in relation to every aspect of your life and relationships. 

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Occupation is an area where you demonstrate engagement. It encompasses your competencies, commitment, and success in achieving work-related tasks and objectives. This dimension reflects your ability to perform tasks, problem-solve, develop strategic skills, and find personal satisfaction in your occupation. It offers significant opportunities for personal challenges and growth, moving beyond personal relationships to emphasize the importance of contributing through professional endeavours.

Occupational Wellness Competency – Engagement

Engagement in the workplace is akin to the commitment and devotion one shows in personal relationships. It's the expression of dedication to one's occupation, evident in the meticulousness and passion with which professional responsibilities are approached. Examples can be seen in police officers diligently polishing their boots, sailors expressing their love for the sea, or nurses treating patients with utmost care. This level of commitment is reflected in their deep engagement with their professional duties.

What is Engagement?

Engagement means immersing oneself deeply and becoming committed to an aspect of work. It involves being captivated or absorbed by specific tasks or roles. While not everyone may be enthralled by their jobs, most can identify aspects of their work that deeply interest them. This kind of engagement leads to expanding knowledge and a higher capability for excellent performance, easing supervisory and leadership challenges, and making work more enjoyable. Engaged employees tend to work harder, going beyond basic responsibilities, and continuously seek ways to solve problems and enhance their professionalism.

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The key life area categories within the Occupational Wellness Dimension provide a structure for a more profound understanding of engagement. While this approach offers one way to classify these life areas, they can be viewed differently in other contexts. The intention is to enhance the significance and depth extracted from each life area in relation to every aspect of your life and relationships.

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The Intellectual Wellness dimension focuses on recognizing and enhancing your capacity for wellness and excellence. It involves understanding your current intellectual abilities and exploring ways to expand them for greater success. This dimension is closely linked to brain function. Current neuroscience research suggests that we use only about 15% of our brain's capacity, implying that many people do not fully utilize this organ's potential. Your scores in this dimension indicate how much of your brain capacity you are currently using, offering insights into maximizing the use of this remarkable organ.

Intellectual Wellness Competency – Capacity Building

Building capacity means acquiring new knowledge, skills, abilities, ideas, and perspectives and gaining personal power and confidence. Enhancing your intellectual capacity can be achieved by learning a new skill, taking a class, adopting a new hobby, or engaging in any activity that broadens your knowledge and skills. The aim is to boost your knowledge and self-confidence and advance your understanding in areas that offer more freedom and growth opportunities.

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These key life area categories within the Intellectual Wellness Dimension provide a framework for deeper understanding. While this approach to classification is one way to view these life areas, they can be interpreted differently in other contexts. The purpose is to enhance the significance and depth you derive from each area in relation to all aspects of your life and relationships.

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The Environmental Wellness Dimension examines your interaction and harmony with the people and things in your environment, highlighting the concept of interdependence. focusing on whether you live in harmony or resistance to reality. It underscores the need for acceptance and reconciliation with various environmental aspects. Those who achieve balance and embrace their environment exhibit a strong sense of interdependence. They understand the limits of their control, focusing their efforts where they can make the most impact with minimal resistance.

This dimension challenges the counterproductive nature of constant struggle and resistance, which can sap vital energy. It advocates accepting the unchangeable and capitalizing on the universe's myriad opportunities. Effective cooperation requires adapting to new situations, people, and realities and actively contributing to the community and universe. The aim of this dimension is to heighten awareness and cultivate a daily sense of appreciation and gratitude.

Environmental Wellness Competency – Interdependence

Our existence is fundamentally interdependent. We depend on our environment for essentials like oxygen and on the sun and moon for natural rhythms. Despite our vast interdependence, many cultivate a mindset of independence and selfishness, leading to environmental disrespect and social conflicts. This attitude fosters greed, envy, and jealousy, leading to resentment and negative actions. A lack of social consciousness and ignorance of our impact on others are common. By living respectfully and treating our environment and others with dignity, we can contribute positively. This involves giving back and replacing what we use. While individual efforts might seem small, collectively, they have the potential to affect global change.

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The key life area categories within the Environmental Wellness Dimension offer a way to understand and engage more deeply with this aspect. While this is one approach to categorizing these areas, different perspectives may apply in other contexts. The goal is to enhance the relevance and depth you find in each area, relating them to every aspect of your life and relationships.

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This dimension shifts the focus to financial wellness, advocating for a revaluation of resource utilization, particularly in terms of money and time. It calls for an honest appraisal of your resource management skills, highlighting the necessity of long-term planning, prioritization, and budgeting. Financial wellness is not just about wealth accumulation but involves the ability to meet financial obligations, accumulate equity, save, and invest wisely in personal and professional growth. The amount of money you have will not make you happy, but how your finances will determine your happiness level.

It also includes mastering efficient time management and networking, as well as establishing a savings plan for financial security. Enhanced wellness in this area positively affects all aspects of your life, enabling you to live genuinely and confidently, free from the stress of overextension and financial worries. This dimension guides you to reevaluate your financial strategies, leading to a more developing innovation and financial wisdom for a fulfilling and less burdensome life.

Financial Wellness Competency – Innovation

Innovation is key to achieving financial wellness. While often equated with monetary accumulation, financial wellness here extends to innovative and creative management of time and resources. Being innovative means tapping into one's creative potential. Many miss the opportunity to develop this potential due to fears and doubts that hinder the realization of ideas and earning potential. These fears can result in lost income and unexplored ideas. Overcoming these fears, coupled with effective planning and prioritization, can unlock significant financial opportunities.

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The following key life area categories provide a framework for understanding your financial wisdom, management, and resilience. These categories aim to help you adopt your financial wisdom and resilience to match your innovative financial abilities.

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Physical wellness is a key aspiration and is more than just the absence of illness or addiction; it represents a comprehensive state of health where the body, as an expression of internal well-being, thrives and functions optimally. Achieving this wellness involves active participation in nurturing and enhancing all aspects of life.

Physical wellness includes a lifestyle devoid of detrimental addictions and behaviours that sustain healthy energy and endurance. This state of wellness not only benefits your health but also positively influences others with its dynamic and lively nature. Your assessment in this dimension mirrors your perception of your physical well-being and progress toward optimal health and vitality. Recognizing your current state is a vital step in setting and achieving your health goals.

Competency - Vibrancy

Vibrancy is about being full of life, enthusiasm, and energy. It's a call to action against modern life's sedentary tendencies. Vibrancy requires self-motivation, robust stamina, and an active lifestyle nourished by a balanced diet and proper body care. It also means the absence of addictive behaviours and tendencies that can diminish your health.

In this context, wellness signifies maintaining vitality, endurance, and a life free from debilitating conditions. It involves actively pursuing choices that enhance your well-being and avoiding those that diminish your energy and strength. It is also vigilance against harmful habits that compromise health and stamina. Remember, your appearance and presentation also contribute to your vibrancy.

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These categories are just one way of classifying these key life areas and can be categorized differently in other spheres. They are intended to give you a way to get more meaning and depth from the key life areas in this dimension and how they relate to you in every aspect of your life and relationship.

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The Interpersonal Dimension of well-being evaluates the quality of your interactions and relationships. It focuses on minimizing conflict, which is essential for deriving high satisfaction from meaningful relationships. This dimension assesses your capability to manage disruptions and establish resilient connections. High scores reflect proficiency in conflict resolution, resilience, negotiation, forgiveness, collaboration, and teamwork. Conversely, low scores, particularly in resilience, highlight the need for personal and organizational enhancement in these crucial interpersonal skills.

Competency - Resilience

Resilience is the capacity to recover from challenging situations, trauma, or difficulties. It's a proactive skill developed in anticipation of potential setbacks. This competency promotes the cultivation of a supportive network of relationships, aiding and encouraging recovery and growth during and after challenging periods.

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These key life area categories offer a means to understand the interpersonal dimension more deeply. While this method of classification is one approach, these life areas can be categorized differently in other contexts. The intention is to enrich the significance and depth of each area, relating them to every facet of your life and relationships.

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