25 behavioural traits
Current v5 documentation groups 25 reported patterns across Action, Mental, Social, Operational and Emotional Energy domains.
Framework under development
Behavioural Performance Index
A proposed measurement framework associated with the broader field of Behavioural Performance. Its current self-assessment implementation is being developed for fitness business owners.
The problem it intends to address
Within Behavioural Performance, the Index may eventually help assess execution conditions, task demands, behavioural alignment, friction, intervention effectiveness and performance evidence. Those are proposed directions, not validated measurement claims.
Many business tools prescribe a common operating model. The BPI is intended to ask a different question: how might a business role and its supporting systems be shaped around the way an individual owner reports that they behave and experience different forms of work?
The project thesis is that an owner can be capable of work that is still costly to sustain, and interested in work that their current role leaves little space to use. The Index is intended to make those distinctions discussable as role-design hypotheses.
What it may measure
The current instrument asks owners to report the frequency of behavioural patterns and how work has felt across recent typical and busiest weeks. Its scoring model produces signals about behaviour, energy and five broad energy domains.
These outputs should be read as structured self-report at a point in time. They do not establish stable traits, diagnose capacity or predict business results.
Proposed components
A layered development model.
The components below describe the current implementation. Their measurement properties and practical value still require independent investigation.
175 self-report items
The current source of truth specifies 100 behaviour items, 50 typical-week energy items and 25 busiest-week items, all on a five-point frequency scale.
15 business strengths
Weighted combinations translate trait scores into business-language capabilities. The weights are framework assumptions, not validated coefficients.
Behaviour and energy alignment
A working interpretation compares reported behaviour with experienced energy to generate role-design hypotheses.
Under Pressure
Domain-level comparison describes how energy reports differ during busiest weeks. It should not be interpreted as stress tolerance or a clinical resilience measure.
Role and system design
Outputs are intended to suggest what to protect, structure, develop or move—not to prescribe identity, employment or clinical decisions.
Possible applications
A planning aid, not a decision authority.
Personal reflection
Help an owner examine where their role appears aligned with or costly to their reported patterns.
Role-design discussion
Provide hypotheses for clarifying ownership, reducing unnecessary personal load and creating support structures.
Coaching context
Offer shared language for a bounded business-planning conversation, provided results remain provisional and contextual.
Framework research
Support item review, calibration and future validation work when participation, governance and data use are ethically appropriate.
Current stage
Built as a working instrument. Not yet established as a validated one.
The local project includes a versioned questionnaire, deterministic scoring code, automated quality checks, report-generation rules and test fixtures. Those are engineering and content controls. They are not evidence of construct validity, reliability, predictive validity or fair use across populations.
Live form deployment, production workflow testing and independent validation remain incomplete in the available project record.
Validation programme required
Questions the Index still has to answer.
Construct definition
Are the proposed traits, energy signals and business strengths clear, distinct and theoretically justified?
Item performance
Do items function consistently, avoid avoidable bias and retain meaning across owner roles and business contexts?
Reliability
Are results sufficiently stable and internally coherent for the limited decisions the framework is intended to support?
Validity
How do scores relate to relevant observations, established measures and practical outcomes without circular reasoning?
Fairness and generalisability
Where do interpretation and items function differently across groups, roles, cultures or business models?
Outcome and harm monitoring
Does use improve planning decisions, produce no effect or create misplaced certainty, stigma or poor allocation?
Known limitations
- Self-report can be affected by recall, interpretation, context and presentation concerns.
- Current thresholds and weighted combinations are framework design choices rather than validated norms.
- Busiest-week comparisons are domain-level signals and should not be extended to trait-level pressure claims.
- The available source documents focus on fitness business owners and do not support generalisation to other populations.
- Earlier documentation describes a 125-item version that has been superseded by the current 175-item v5 model.
- No published peer-reviewed validation evidence was found in the workspace.
Ethics and privacy
Assessment responses may reveal personal and business information. A live service should use explicit consent, data minimisation, clear processor disclosure, defined retention, deletion pathways and controls for any AI-assisted interpretation.
The framework should not be used for employment selection, clinical judgement, legal decisions or other high-consequence determinations. Results should not be treated as fixed traits or used to reduce a person’s opportunity.
Source basis
This overview uses the current BPI v5 project context, 175-item questionnaire map, scoring specification, prompts and changelogs. The June 2026 methodology white paper is useful historical material but describes an older 125-item model and includes claims that require revision. Where sources conflict, the current versioned files are treated as the implementation source of truth and the conflict remains recorded.