Strain
How much pressure are you experiencing? Strain reflects the demands and pressures you're currently managing.
PCS
Performance Capacity Snapshot
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You Give Your Best Every Day. But How Much Capacity Do You Have Left?
Every day, you balance responsibilities, expectations, relationships, and the demands of life. Sometimes those demands exceed the resources you have available.
That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not working hard enough. It may mean your capacity is being stretched. Your organization has partnered with PCS powered by RIVA to help you better understand the pressures you’re experiencing, the capacity you have available, and what may be getting in the way.
No Judgment. No Labels. Just Answers.Understand Your Capacity. Identify What's Holding You Back.
What is PCS?
What If the Problem Isn't Your Effort, but Your Capacity?
Have you ever felt exhausted even though you’re doing everything you’re supposed to do? Have you struggled to focus, stay motivated, or meet expectations despite working harder than ever?
Sometimes the challenge isn’t your commitment. It’s the amount of capacity you have available to meet life’s demands. The Performance Capacity Snapshot is designed to help you understand three important factors.
Capacity
What resources do you have available? Capacity reflects your ability to manage responsibilities, navigate challenges, and function effectively.
Capacity Suppressors
What's getting in your way? Capacity suppressors are the circumstances, obstacles, and pressures that may prevent you from using your available capacity effectively.
PCS helps you recognize patterns, better understand your circumstances, and identify where to begin.
The Five Dimensions
Your Capacity Is More Than Your Energy Level.
PCS explores five important dimensions of personal capacity.
Purpose & direction
Identity Capacity
Your sense of purpose, direction, confidence, and alignment with what matters most.
Emotional demands
Emotional Capacity
Your ability to recognize and manage emotional demands and respond effectively to challenges.
Focus & clarity
Cognitive Capacity
Your ability to focus, think clearly, make decisions, and manage mental demands.
Relationships & boundaries
Relational Capacity
How relationships, boundaries, and interpersonal responsibilities influence your available capacity.
Routines & environment
Structural Capacity
How your routines, environment, resources, and responsibilities support or interfere with your effectiveness.
Understanding these dimensions can help you recognize your strengths and identify areas that may benefit from additional attention.
How It Works
Simple to Complete. Immediate Personal Results.
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Access Your Assessment
Click the assessment link provided on this page. You'll be directed to the PCS assessment associated with your participating organization.
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Answer Honestly
Respond to questions about your current experiences, responsibilities, and how you're managing everyday demands. There are no right or wrong answers — your responses should reflect your actual experiences.
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Receive Your Results
Immediately after completing the assessment, you'll receive your personal PCS results. They provide insight into your current strain, capacity, and factors that may be limiting your effectiveness.
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Understand Where to Begin
Review your results and consider what they reveal. Identify one or two areas where meaningful changes, additional support, or different approaches may help.
Ready when you are — your results are available the moment you finish.
Begin My PCS AssessmentYour Results
Your Results Are a Starting Point, Not a Label.
Your PCS results are designed to help you understand yourself more clearly. They do not determine your value, your potential, or your worth as an employee.
After reviewing your results, ask yourself:
- Where am I experiencing the greatest strain?
- Which areas of my life are supporting my capacity?
- What circumstances or responsibilities may be draining my capacity?
- What obstacles are preventing me from functioning at my best?
- What is one meaningful change I could make?
- Would additional support or resources be beneficial?
Improving your capacity doesn’t always mean doing more. Sometimes it means understanding what needs to change.
Use your results as a starting point for reflection, informed decisions, and personal development.
Your Privacy
Your Personal Results Are Private. Your Participation Helps Build a Bigger Picture.
Trust is essential. PCS is designed to provide employees with individual insights while helping organizations understand broader workforce patterns.
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What You Receive
Your Personal Assessment Results
After completing PCS, you receive your individual results immediately. These results are intended for your personal understanding and development.
Not Shared With Your Employer
Your organization does not receive your individual assessment report or your personal responses through the organizational PCS reporting process.
Not a Performance Evaluation
Your personal results are not intended to be used as an employee performance evaluation.
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What Your Organization Receives
Aggregated Workforce Insights
Your organization receives combined information from participating employees.
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Participation
The number of employees who completed PCS.
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Organizational Strain
Collective indicators of the pressure and demands employees are experiencing.
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Organizational Capacity
An aggregated view of the capacity available across participating employees.
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Capacity Suppressors
Common circumstances, pressures, or barriers that may be limiting employee capacity.
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Trends Over Time
When reassessments are conducted, the organization can examine how these collective indicators change.
Important: Your organization receives group-level results, not your individual assessment report. Organizational reporting must use appropriate safeguards to prevent individual responses from being disclosed or inferred, particularly in small groups.
Read the PCS Privacy & Data Use NoticeWhy We're Participating
Because Understanding Employees Is Part of Building a Better Organization.
Your organization recognizes that employee performance is influenced by more than effort, skills, and motivation. Workplace demands, personal responsibilities, relationships, organizational structures, and available resources all affect how people function.
By participating in PCS, you help create a clearer picture of the challenges and opportunities affecting your workforce. This collective information can help organizational leaders make more informed decisions about:
- Employee support and resources.
- Organizational practices.
- Workforce development.
- Areas of excessive strain.
- Potential barriers to employee effectiveness.
Your participation contributes to a better understanding of the workforce as a whole. The objective is not to judge individual employees. It is to understand the conditions that influence capacity and identify opportunities for meaningful improvement.
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