The Resilience Innovator Type Assessment

Now that RITA has been launched, we wanted to tell you all about its use cases. In the livestream above, we discuss RITA use cases and more. But first, what is RITA?

What is RITA?

The Resilience Innovator Type Assessment (RITA) is a first-of-its-kind two-part assessment that measures resilience and innovation, and it was developed by Epicenter Innovation and the UK’s leading business psychology firm. The first part of the assessment is a psychometric personality questionnaire. It’s similar to the Myers-Briggs assessment or 16 personalities if you’ve taken that. The second part is a situational judgment test consisting of nine questions based around hypothetical real-world scenarios. Because resilience and innovation are measured by analyzing similar but different sets of characteristics, RITA’s two-part design is uniquely comprehensive.

The goal of RITA is to measure an individual’s resilience and propensity to innovate in times of crisis. The 18-page report you receive upon completion includes:

• Your unique Resilience Innovator Archetype
• Your unique Resilience Innovator subtypes (two)
• Your results to the situational judgment test
• A strengths in the workplace breakdown
• A professional development worksheet
• Insights into all the types
• A personalized and ranked list of 50 Key Traits related to resilience and innovation

Knowing your Resilience Innovator type provides you with a deeper understanding of yourself, your preferences, and your behaviors. Using this information to your benefit is a key to understanding RITA’s power as an assessment tool. That’s what this blog is all about.

How Do You Use RITA?

There are three major points that taking RITA can teach you:

1. What is your current level of resilience (innate and learned) & how can you leverage your unique abilities and preferences to create stronger communities?
2. What type of innovator are you & what styles, key traits, and other strengths determine how you think, behave, and act in the workplace?
3. How readily transferable are your strengths as a Resilience Innovator & how can you most effectively support your team by knowing your archetype (and theirs)?

From these three points alone, we hope we’ve made it clear that your RITA results are not to be interpreted in a vacuum. Knowing your type and the strengths associated with it can help you communicate more effectively and efficiently with your team in order to create more resilient and innovative communities.

Because of its broad applicability, RITA can be used in any of the following ways:

Who Should Use RITA?

Epicenter Innovation comes from the emergency management field, and we’re proud to say that many of our goals surrounding the creation of this assessment came from our work in the industry. But RITA was made for leaders from all spaces. Leaders are everywhere, and crises are unavoidable, no matter what line of work you’re in. What matters is how you respond and react to them. That’s where RITA can help.

Here is a short list of the possible industries that could make use of RITA:

Learn Your Type! Unlocking your potential as a leader in crisis is just around the corner. Find out your Resilience Innovator Type today.