Behavioral assessment · not a personality test

Influence isn't a type.
It's a pattern of behavior — and patterns can be measured.

TECCA Core measures how often you actually do the twenty behaviors that build influence. Not who you are — what you do. Which means it can change, and you can watch it change.

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Founding member rates through January 7, 2027
Your responses align most closely with
Credible Vanguard™
Trusted. Consistent. Forward-looking.
66
TECCA SCORE
72
Trust
58
EQ
41
Commu
66
Credi
55
Adapt
Where your behaviors sit today
Next move: after one discussion this week, check it landed with a single question. That check is the rep.
118
frequency items
20
measured behaviors
5
foundations
6
honest zones

Other assessments describe you and leave.

TECCA measures what you do, coaches you on it from your own data, and measures whether it changed. They stop at the snapshot. We built the loop.

Reflect · Watch · Act
The six zones

A starting position. Never a verdict.

Every behavior lands in a zone — and because TECCA measures frequency, not identity, the zone you're in today is just where the work begins.

Limited
Rarely shows up yet
Inconsistent
Depends on the day
Emerging
Taking shape
Developing
Reliable under normal load
Strong
Holds under pressure
Consistent
Who you are on your worst day
What it measures

Five Foundations. Twenty behaviors. One honest mirror.

Trust
Keeping your word, saying the hard thing, repairing after a miss — consistently enough that people can bank on it.
Emotional Intelligence
Reading the moment and regulating yourself inside it — especially under pressure.
Communication
Landing the message and confirming it landed — clarity as a discipline, not a gift.
Credibility
Competence made visible — owning misses, delivering, and being worth believing.
Adaptability
Adjusting your approach without losing your core when the situation shifts.
How it works

From honest answers to a map you can act on.

01 · Answer honestly
118 behavior-frequency items — how often you actually do each thing. If something genuinely doesn’t occur in your world, say so: an honest instrument shows a gap rather than inventing a score. Most won’t.
02 · Meet your pattern
Your Power Profile names the archetype your responses align with, maps all twenty behaviors into zones, and shows the strongest thing you do — and the edge that’s costing you.
03 · Work the pattern
Watch-fors, micro-habits, retakes that show measured change — and at Elite, Sage: an intelligent coach that already knows your pattern and holds you to your own commitments.
Eleven influence archetypes

Which pattern is yours?

Your responses align most closely with one of eleven named patterns — each with its signature strength, its blind spot, and how it lands on the people around you. Finding yours is free.

Credible Vanguard™
Trusted. Consistent. Forward-looking.
Trust Builder™
Steady hands. Kept promises.
Influence Catalyst™
Momentum, made contagious.
Clarity Strategist™
Says the thing everyone needed said.
Empathetic Anchor™
The calm the room organizes around.
+ 6 more
find yours — free →
Your second archetype

Most assessments stop at your strengths. That's where this one starts.

Alongside your influence archetype, TECCA names your Development Archetype — the pattern most worth working, drawn from your own responses, with the watch-fors and reps to work it. And if your profile doesn't have a real gap, it says that too. TECCA will never invent a weakness to sound insightful.

Written from your answers · aimed at your next move

It doesn't describe you. It coaches you.

Sample · Behavioral Mirror · Follow-Through, Strong zone

"When you say it will happen, it happens — and the people around you have quietly reorganized their planning around that fact. The risk in a pattern this reliable is invisibility: kept promises rarely get named. Your next rep isn't keeping more promises. It's letting one or two of them be seen."

Illustrative sample. Your profile is written from your own responses — twenty behaviors, each read in its zone.

Sage Intelligent Coaching™ · Elite

A coach who already read your file.

Ask any AI for advice and you get the internet's average. Sage starts from your measured pattern — and coaches you through the moments that actually decide your influence. The hard conversation you're dreading. The self-doubt that shows up before the big briefing, answered with your own data instead of a pep talk. The conflict that keeps replaying. The watch-for you're trying to turn into a habit. And because Sage sees every retake, it coaches your trajectory — not just today's snapshot.

Prepping a hard conversation
Answering self-doubt with your own data
Breaking a repeating conflict
Turning a watch-for into a habit
Reading your change between takes
Knows your pattern
Grounded in your actual results — not a questionnaire it forgot.
Sees your trajectory
Your commitments and your retake deltas — coaching for where you’re headed, not just where you are.
Private by design
Your Sage sees your results and nobody else’s.
See Elite pricing ↓

Sage is an AI coach grounded in your assessment results. It's not a human, not a therapist, and not a substitute for either — and it will tell you so itself.

Pricing

Start free. Go as deep as you want.

Founding member rates — named, dated, honored until January 7, 2027.

Discover
$0
Meet your Influence Archetype and see where your influence is already strongest.
  • Your Influence Archetype — the pattern your responses align with most
  • Your top Foundation of Influence, with a real behavioral read
  • A preview of the full pattern waiting in your results
See Your Pattern
$49$79Founding
See your full pattern across all Five Foundations — every strength, every growth edge.
Everything in Discover, plus:
  • All 5 foundations & 20 behaviors, zoned
Know Your Moves
Most chosen
$99$169Founding
Turn insight into action — watch-fors, blind spots, micro-habits, and your full archetype story.
  • Watch-Fors and Blind-Spots across all 20 subdomains
  • Micro-Habits and Coaching Prompts — your next moves, spelled out
  • Numeric scores with percentile comparison
  • Full Influence + Development Archetype narratives
  • Downloadable Power Profile report (PDF)
  • Retake comparison — see your growth over time
Change the Behavior
$49/mo$69/moFounding
Membership · coaching and momentum. Includes Know Your Moves — if you don't own it yet, your first checkout adds it ($99 founding, one time) so SAGE coaches from your full profile.
  • SAGE: unlimited behavioral coaching tuned to your item-level scores
  • The full Premium Power Profile report (170+ content types, $149 value, included)
  • Monthly retakes with longitudinal progress tracking
  • Deep domain synthesis — the most nuanced layer of your profile
  • Everything in Know Your Moves

One-time tiers are permanent — yours for good. Elite is a monthly membership; cancel anytime and keep everything you purchased.

Your data is yours: never sold, never used for hiring decisions, export or delete anytime.

DK

"Twenty-nine years leading people through the hardest days of their careers taught me one thing: when everything's on the line, nobody cares what type you are. They watch what you do. TECCA measures the only thing I ever saw actually move people — behavior, counted honestly."

Don Kunkel
Founder, Elite Leadership Center · Author, The Foundations of Influence
Questions

Asked and answered.

Is this a personality test?

No. Personality instruments type who you are; TECCA measures how often you do specific observable behaviors. Types feel permanent. Behavior frequencies change — which is the point.

How long does it take?

Plan on 30–40 minutes — our estimate until we publish the measured median. It’s 118 behavior-frequency items, and your dashboard is ready the moment you finish. Serious measurement takes longer than a quiz; that’s the point.

What if a behavior doesn’t apply to my life?

Say so. TECCA treats "does not occur" as honest information, and if too much of an area is unobserved it shows you a gap instead of inventing a score. Most assessments won’t do that.

Can I retake it?

Yes — cadence depends on your tier, and your history view shows how each behavior moved between takes. Measured change is the product.

Is this validated?

TECCA is in structured pre-pilot development: a published framework, item development traceable to cited literature, automated scoring certification, and an active validation program with pre-registered analyses. We publish what’s established and what isn’t — no assessment should ask for your trust without showing its work.

Who sees my results?

Your individual results belong to you. They’re never sold, and never used for hiring or personnel decisions. In team programs, only aggregated, de-identified views exist — and only through a certified practitioner. Export everything or delete your account from Settings, anytime.

Is this clinical or diagnostic?

No. TECCA is a behavioral development instrument — not a clinical tool, not therapy, and not for employment selection decisions.

The mirror is free.
What you do with it is the work.

See your pattern — free
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TECCA is a behavioral development instrument. It is not a clinical or diagnostic tool and is not designed or validated for hiring or selection decisions. © 2026 Elite Leadership Group, LLC · Powered by the TECCA Influence System™
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