Human Resources
Team Action Planning
You’ve completed your first Team Discovery Session—what’s next? How do you take what you learned in your session and begin applying it day to day? It probably comes as no surprise that significant change takes time. That’s where the Team Action Planner comes in. Below, we’ll explore how to use the planner to find actions…
Exploring Teams and Strategy
Knowing your Team Type is just one step in achieving those 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…
Introducing the Exploring Team
An Exploring Team is one of the nine Team Types identified by The Predictive Index. Exploring Teams are outgoing, cooperative, and eager to work together. They have an active desire to learn and try new things. With an eye on the big picture, they share ideas—and resources—freely and informally. Innovation is the goal. People stand…
Introduction to Team Types
The perfect team for running a software start-up would likely be a terrible team for running a hospital. And vice-versa. But what determines how well a team is prepared to take on one challenge versus another? How can you truly assess a team and build the right one for the business strategy you have in…
Reliability and Validity of the PI Cognitive Assessment
The PI Cognitive Assessment was developed in 2010 in response to client demand for a short cognitive ability assessment which could provide a valid predictor for job performance. The development work was conducted in accordance with Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures (SIOP, 2003), and the Standards for Educational and Psychological…
Introduction to the PI Cognitive Assessment
What is The PI Cognitive Assessment? The Predictive Index Cognitive Assessment is a 12-minute assessment of an individual’s general cognitive ability. The PI Cognitive Assessment was built and validated exclusively for use in the workplace, providing insight into a person’s capacity to learn, adapt, and grasp new concepts. The PI Cognitive Assessment does not measure…
Establish your culture.
Any senior team should view establishing their company culture as one of their most important activities as leaders. Culture is a result of deliberate, intentional action. Not only should an organization’s structure have tight alignment with the organization’s business strategy, but a purpose-built culture should also be consistent with that strategy. Culture, along with organizational…
The Science Behind Team Discovery
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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Prescribe improvement actions
Why prescribing improvement actions is important to talent optimization Prescribing improvement actions is where you plan the actions you need to take to correct the issues you discovered upon measuring and analyzing your talent metrics. Using our medical example again, prescribing is where the doctor would say “Take this blood pressure medication.” Companies that excel…
Analyze objectively
Why analyzing objectively is important to talent optimization Returning to our medical example, analyzing the evidence is akin to a doctor determining how to solve the problem of high cholesterol by examining blood testing results. In business terms, this is where you’ll look at the people data you’ve collected and generate a hypothesis based on…