What Does This Mean?

Use the pie chart to compare your score to the benchmark data. The default benchmark is the "live feed," which is the scores from people like you taking the energy pulse now. You can click on other demographics and see how you compare to those numbers. The pie chart shows you where your score falls or which slice of the pie you are in when compared to everyone else in a benchmark group. The number to the right of the pie chart is the average or mean score for that benchmark.

Compare your score (on the energy doughnut) to the score to the right of the pie chart. Is your score higher or lower than the average? Are you in a pie chart slice that is populated by a lot of people or few?

Why Energy

We will be asking you to rate your overall energy level at work because optimal energy is critical for your own well being and peak performance and for our organization's overall ability to compete and succeed.

The one-item Energy question has been validated with over 18 years of research and linked to outcomes such as long-term financial performance, turnover, high performance, customer satisfaction, and more.

Note that there is no "right" answer that applies to everyone. We ask you to rate your own energy today and also the energy level where you are most productive. It is not "good" to be at either the very high or very low end of the scale. Our goal is to keep energy levels at the rate close to where our team is most productive.

We will use your comment data to diagnose what we can do - and what all of us can do - to remove barriers to your productivity or to provide new opportunities. Both actions will enhance your personal energy at work.

Energy Scoring

There is no "right" answer; everyone's optimal energy level is different. Energy is an optimization construct, not maximization. That means more is not always better. Think about where your energy level is today vs. where you are most productive or at your best. The gap should be zero. To learn more go to www.eepulse.com.

When rating energy, think of energy as the internal force or power that directs your activity during the day. At a low energy level, you don't have the internal strength to be productive; for whatever reason (and there are many), you simply are not motivated to get work done. As your energy goes up, you have more internal drive and personal strength to accomplish things at work.

As energy goes too high, however, you can get to a level where you are actually expending so much energy that you start to feel unproductive. You are using up your energy faster than you can replenish it because the super high energy level is one that you cannot manage (this is approaching burnout level on the scale).

The same thing happens if you exercise or run at a rate that is too fast for your target heart rate. The goal is for you to work at an energy level where you are most productive, where you can get a lot done but not be overburdened by the rate of energy use.