Build Job Targets with confidence

Job targets enable confidence in job fit – the sense of feeling productive and satisfied in your work because your day-to-day tasks energize you.

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Rating Interview Responses using the STAR method

Behavioral interviewing assumes that past performance is an indicator of future performance. We ask people about their previous experiences in order to see if we can align their responses with our expectations of the job and situations we know they’ll encounter.  Using the STAR method to gain more insight into these areas, you’ll identify a…

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What is the Behavioral Target?

Every individual is wired differently. Their behavioral makeup dictates how they approach and respond to situations in the workplace. And the more insight you have into those behaviors, the better equipped you are as a colleague, team, or organization to understand your people – and put them in positions where they will thrive.  Let’s explore…

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Cater onboarding to your employees

Not every employee likes to work or be managed in the same way. Some people like clear rules and careful planning. Other people feel stifled by rules and prefer to wing it. By catering your onboarding process to these preferences, you can keep employees more engaged in the onboarding process. That doesn’t mean you need…

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Make onboarding a team effort

In the last lesson, we mentioned asking future coworkers to greet a new employee. Your team shouldn’t just help with early onboarding, though—they should be involved in the whole process. We’ve created a FAQ for this below.

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Onboarding starts when the offer is signed

Many organizations don’t start onboarding until the employee official walks in the door. But why wait? By starting the onboarding process early, your new hires can begin to absorb your organization’s culture and values before their first day. They’ll hit their first week with more confidence, fewer hiccups, and stronger relationships. Check out our very…

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What is onboarding and why is it important?

When an organization hires a new employee, it’s rare that the employee immediately starts working. Instead, the employee needs to learn some basics first, like what their role is and how it helps the broader organization. The process of teaching an employee these basics is called onboarding. Onboarding is often defined as the first week…

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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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