The AAA+ Framework Assessment

Before You Begin

Understanding the framework will help you get much more value from your results.

What Makes This Different

Unlike many assessments, the AAA+ Framework does not try to tell you who you are or superficially label you as a ‘type’.

Rather, it helps you explore and understand your contextual thinking, choices and behaviour as a system: how your beliefs about what you can influence, what you want, your capacity to act and your current psychological and physiological state interact dynamically to shape your choices and actions.

Looking at the system as a whole, helps reveal hidden and non-obvious constraints and potential leverage points.

It is entirely scalable across individuals, teams and organisations.

The Four Dimensions

The Framework has four dimensions:

Agency – Our perceived possibilities and limits for effective self directed action*
Aspirations – Our goals and priorities (both explicit and implicit)
Adaptability – Our ability to learn, adjust and find new approaches
Internal State – Our overall psychological and physiological alignment, resourcefulness and motivation

These dimensions overlap and interact dynamically. For example, low (sense of) Agency often reduces Aspirations. High Aspirations without Adaptability leads to frustrated dreaming. High Adaptability with unclear Aspirations can lead to lack of focus and drift.

*Agency here is your perceived possibilities and space for self directed action, not to be confused with ‘objective circumstances’. Even in constrained circumstances, what you believe is possible shapes what you attempt.

Why Use it?

The AAA+ Framework is simple and intuitive, yet derives from cutting-edge neuroscience and the complex processes as to how we actually work.

As pioneering neuroscientist Karl Friston shows, our brains construct powerful models of the world – not the world as it objectively is, but the world as it affects us. These models contain our sense of agency, our predicted consequences of our actions and our goals.

These models filter all our perceptions and drive all our actions. Left unchallenged, they become self-fulfilling prophecies – when adaptive, they promote innovation; when maladaptive, they lead to stagnation.

This online assessment can help give you a snapshot of your current model. But as with all online assessments, it cannot capture the full context and complexity of change, which is where our brain-based tools and techniques create sustainable change.

How It Works

• Identify a specific issue or goal
• Answer 20 questions honestly (1-10 scale)
• See your pattern across four dimensions
• Get personalized insights and next steps

For Best Results:

• Take 10-15 minutes (don’t rush)
• Take the time to identify the specific issue or goal, as our models are contextual
• Answer how things actually are, not how you wish they were
• High scores are not always better – the process of reflection and insight is what counts

This assessment identifies patterns and potential blockages. What happens next depends upon what you discover:

• Quick Wins: Some insights lead to immediate shifts in perception
• Deeper Work: Others reveal patterns that benefit from coaching or workshops, where we explore tools and techniques for sustainable change

Data Protection/ Privacy: We do not see nor have access to the answers you provide.