Team Discovery overview

Here you’ll find more information about the basics of PI Design’s Team Discovery™ tool and how this tool can be so impactful for you and your team. Team Discovery walkthrough Reference Profiles You might be wondering, “how does the Behavioral Assessment tie into Team Discovery?” and that’s a valid question. The Behavioral Assessment is the…

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Strategies by quadrant

The Work Styles framework also helps us to understand business strategies and initiatives in terms that align to people and talent.  

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Reference profiles by quadrant

Based on the mapping of the Behavioral Assessment four factors, there are often common themes between where a leader is plotted in the quadrants and their Behavioral Assessment results.  There are some Reference Profiles where the quadrant mapping is more variable and depends on the specific configuration of their Behavioral Assessment Pattern. These include Adapter,…

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Leader behaviors by quadrant

This framework helps us to understand people and behavior.  The PI Science team conducted research to link the four framework quadrants to the four drives measured by the Behavioral Assessment. Click on each quadrant below to explore the relationships between the four drives and the leader behaviors for each quadrant.

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Work Styles Framework

In this short course we will cover: The Work Styles framework How the Work Styles framework applies to leader behavior and the Behavioral Assessment How Reference Profiles map to this framework How strategy and work initiatives fit into the framework By mapping people and strategy to this framework we create a common language to consider an organization’s talent in…

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Bringing it all together with Team Discovery

How does it all come together? While Team Type tells us about a team’s culture, values, and natural proclivities, strategic  emphasis tells us about the team’s goals and objectives. The combination of Team Types and  strategic emphasis can answer questions such as: How can we leverage our team’s natural strengths? Where are our gaps when…

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Team strategic emphasis

What are the origins of team strategic emphasis? PI’s strategic and team objectives are based upon Quinn & Rohrbaugh’s Competing Values  Framework (1983), a popular tool for describing organizational effectiveness and culture. In  developing these objectives, PI’s Science team conducted an extensive literature review and  test development process to ensure that the objectives were sound,…

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How individuals are plotted across quadrants

To determine team member plot points, each team member’s A:C and B:D Factor Combinations are converted into percentile ranks, representing how high or low the Factor Combination value is with respect to all other values. For example, an A:C value of 0.6 is in the 59th percentile, so 59% of all possible A:C values are…

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Introduction to Team Types

What are the origins of Team Types? In 2019, The Predictive Index sought to discover the types of teams that existed among client organizations through a large-scale empirical study. Using PI Behavioral Assessment results from 125,000+ employees across 20,000+ teams, we found evidence for nine distinct Team Types based on the behavioral make-up of their…

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Adapting Teams and Strategy

Knowing your Team Type is just one step in achieving business results. You also need to consider the strategy to achieve those results. Understanding your team in the context of the work to be done helps you identify risks and gaps when it comes to executing your team’s strategy. The Predictive Index also conducted extensive…

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