The Multidimensional Inventory for Personal Intelligence (MIPI) is a competency-based framework created to help individuals unlock their potential by focusing on what they do rather than who they are. Unlike fixed-trait assessments, the MIPI is flexible, helping you build competencies in emotional, social, and motivational intelligence. Rather than aiming for “more” personal intelligence (PI) across the board, the MIPI provides insights into optimizing PI within context, so you can achieve goals that matter to you.
Why the MIPI is Different: Competency-Based and Contextual
The MIPI offers a structured, actionable approach by examining personal intelligence across three key areas:
Appearance: How your PI scores present in terms of behavior, thought patterns, and emotional responses.
Engagement: Guidance on how to interact with someone based on their PI scores, enhancing communication and understanding.
Development: Strategies to improve PI scores in context, ensuring they support specific personal or professional objectives. The goal of the MIPI is to optimize personal intelligence in a way that aligns with your unique needs, whether for personal growth, professional impact, or enhanced coaching outcomes.
Core Dimensions of Personal Intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the foundation of personal intelligence, emphasizing self-regulation, awareness, and empathy. MIPI helps you understand how these traits show up in interactions and provides insights to strengthen emotional resilience.
Social intelligence (SI) enables effective communication and relationship-building, helping you create trust and mutual understanding. The MIPI assesses social awareness, rapport, and collaboration skills, providing a nuanced picture of your interpersonal strengths.
Motivational intelligence (MI) drives goal pursuit and resilience, aligning actions with meaningful objectives. The MIPI evaluates motivation through goal orientation, persistence, and resilience, giving you tools to sustain focus without burnout.
With the MIPI, the objective is not simply to boost scores across dimensions but to optimize them based on your unique context and goals. Personal intelligence is inherently flexible, and the MIPI’s competency-based approach provides a personalized roadmap that evolves with you, ensuring that your skills align with the environments and relationships that matter most.
Get Started: Take the MIPI Assessment to see where you stand across emotional, social, and motivational intelligence, and receive a customized roadmap for growth.