Brain Talent Profile (BTP)

What is the BTP Report?

The Brain Talent Profile (BTP) shows how you are currently using the 18 Brain Talents – the practical, learnable capabilities that turn emotional intelligence into action. It also offers insight on your current Focus, Decisions and Drive.

What are Brain Talents? They are “talents for the future” – key competencies needed to innovate, achieve, and thrive. These capabilities are fuelled by emotional intelligence. Through extensive research, Six Seconds distilled key behaviours from open-text comments about real leaders today, and linked them to emotional intelligence competencies. In a sense, it distills a decade of experience with emotional intelligence into 18 simple concepts.

They are:

• Learned capabilities not traits you are born with
• Flexible, not fixed strengths or weaknesses
• Tools, not labels

Download a full guide to unpacking your own Brain Talent Profile: BTP Guide Download.

Why does this profile matter to you?

When you understand how you are currently using your talents:

• You gain clarity about what is working for you right now
• You can make intentional adjustments, instead of reacting on autopilot
• You avoid overusing strengths under pressure
• You expand your range of responses
• You increase effectiveness, confidence, and energy

This report helps you move from “This is how I am” to “This is how I’m using my talents right
now, and I can choose how to use them in the future.

When to use it?

The Brain Talent Profile is a powerfully simple tool that links emotional intelligence to real-world performance. Using simple language, the BTP shows people key talents that they will easily understand and want to apply.

You can:

• Use them intentionally
• Combine them differently
• Strengthen them over time
• Shift how you apply them

Typical Uses:

• Training: Unlock Brain Talents is our practical intervention introducing you to the leadership competencies for the future and how these 18 Apps are linked to emotional intelligence competencies.
• Team Development & Focus: What are the talents that we need in our team? What are the talents that we have and that we are under-utilising? Are there talents we need to download and run, given our current and future business needs?
• Workforce Design: What talents do you have, what talents do you need?
• Strength-based Coaching:  If you want to make a change, what are your strengths. Which of the 18 Apps identified for future fit leaders are you using?
• Employee Branding: Help prospective candidates understand your organisation is committed to EQ and the people-side by having every candidate take the BTP and discuss it.
• Company Culture: Show commitment to developing EQ and using the BTP language to embed the leadership competencies.

How was it developed?

Starting with database of over 60,000 emotional intelligence assessments from around the globe, Six Seconds looked at the results to derive the model of the six ‘clusters’ in Focus, Decision & Drive. This included analysing feedback comments from 500 leaders who earned high performance scores; identifying key outcomes for change and linking them to the model; gaining insights from a panel of 20 experts on change, in business and education and finally testing a pilot version with hundreds of professionals.

What’s next?

1. After you have received your Brain Talent Profile, you can book a coaching conversation (60 minutes) with us to explore the impact of the profile and tips for using this tool to improve your effectiveness. See coaching options.
2. Use our Unlocking Brain Talents two hour team intervention to move the needle of performance.
3. We offer a team Dashboard, where you can see a one page summary of your group, showing the link from EQ and brain style, to talents and then performance. Ideal for group training sessions.
4. You can request your full SEI® Report to get further depth and understanding of your EQ.