Personality tests tell you who you are. The RPI™ tells you who you’re weakening.
The Rescue Pattern Index™ measures the specific ways capable leaders take work, decisions, and problems off other people’s plates — and what that costs the team. In about 20 minutes online, you’ll see your Rescue Signature™, your Rescue Tax™, and exactly what to do differently starting this week.
Instant access code by email. Complete online in about 20 minutes.
Your most expensive habit looks like helping.
When you jump in, take over, smooth things out, or quietly redo the work, it feels like leadership. It reads as commitment. But every rescue teaches your best people that you’ll catch it — so they stop stretching, decisions stall until they reach your desk, and your calendar fills with work your team was hired to do.
That’s the Rescue Tax™: a compounding cost in delayed decisions, shallow bench strength, missed development, and a leader who has no time left to actually lead. The good news — every pattern behind it is a changeable behavior, not a personality trait. And what you can measure, you can correct.
What correcting rescue behavior is worth
Leaders don’t take the RPI™ for a score. They take it for what changes afterward:
- ROI you can see within weeks. Hours reclaimed from work that wasn’t yours, decisions made once at the right level, and fewer problems boomeranging back to your desk.
- Stronger management and leadership skill-sets. Delegation that sticks, coaching instead of takeover, and standards held without hovering — the difference between being needed and being effective.
- Real productivity gains. Work moves at the speed of the team instead of the calendar of one overloaded leader — and your best people grow because you finally let the work stay theirs.
The RPI™ doesn’t label you. It pinpoints the behaviors costing you the most and pairs each one with a Strength Move — a practical replacement you can start using the same day.
Rescue behavior hides in your people, your processes, and your systems.
Rescue patterns rarely stay personal. They spread into how your team works, how work flows, and how your organization runs. The RPI™ report maps where your patterns land — so you can address the pain point, not just the symptom.
People
The blind spot: you’ve become the answer to too many questions, and capable staff have quietly stopped bringing you finished work.
How the RPI™ helps: it shows which patterns pull you into other people’s work — and the Strength Moves that rebuild ownership, initiative, and bench strength.
Processes
The blind spot: handoffs, approvals, and escalations route around the process and through you — because your rescues have quietly become the process.
How the RPI™ helps: it identifies where you’ve become a step in the workflow, so you can redesign the step instead of being the step.
Systems
The blind spot: the same fires get fought the same way every month, because the fix lives in your head instead of in a system anyone can run.
How the RPI™ helps: it reveals which recurring rescues are worth turning into a real system — and which ones to retire entirely.
How the RPI™ works
- Purchase online. Your private access code arrives by email within minutes.
- Complete the assessment. About 20 minutes online, one set of questions at a time.
- Get your report. Your Rescue Signature™, your estimated Rescue Tax™, and a prioritized action plan.
- Apply your Strength Moves. Then retake the RPI™ later and measure the improvement.
Your score is a baseline, not a label.
Every pattern the RPI™ measures is a changeable behavior. That’s why the report doesn’t stop at assessment — it addresses each pattern with a specific Strength Move, so the pain points and blind spots it surfaces become the exact places you improve. Leaders who work their Strength Moves see lower RPI™ scores on reassessment: fewer rescues, stronger teams, better decisions, and time back on the calendar. Assess, address, and measure the difference.
Choose your path
RPI™ Assessment
$199
The full Rescue Pattern Index™ online, plus your personal report: Rescue Signature™, Rescue Tax™, and Strength Moves.
Assessment + Author Debrief
$749 · Most popular
Everything in the assessment, plus a private 60-minute debrief with author Wesley Paterson, CMC to turn your results into a plan.
Standalone Author Debrief
$549
Already completed the RPI™? Book a private 60-minute session with Wesley to work through your results and next steps.
Debrief sessions are scheduled personally by Wesley — you’ll receive an email within one business day of purchase.
Common questions
How long does the assessment take?
About 20 minutes, completed online at your own pace.
Is this a personality test?
No. The RPI™ measures observable rescue behaviors, not who you are — and every behavior it flags comes with a practical replacement.
What do I get?
A personal report with your Rescue Signature™, your estimated Rescue Tax™, and a prioritized set of Strength Moves — plus a baseline you can measure improvement against.
Can my score improve?
Yes — that’s the point. Apply your Strength Moves, retake the RPI™, and measure the difference in your score, your team, and your calendar.
Is my data private?
Yes. Responses are encrypted and handled in line with Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA and Alberta PIPA), with your explicit consent collected before you begin.
How are debriefs scheduled?
Wesley emails you personally within one business day to find a time that works.
The Rescue Pattern Index™ was developed by Wesley Paterson, CMC — author of Hero’s Rope and President of Paterson Consulting Inc.