Understanding Team Types

The PI Behavioral Assessment provides a deep look into an individual’s workplace behavior, including their natural drives and needs. Consider that the majority of work is done as a team, however, and it’s important to understand how individual work styles manifest as a collective team identity. The larger the group, the more complex that identity…

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Understanding your Behavioral Assessment Results

The PI Behavioral Assessment (BA) helps organizations understand the personality traits that make their employees and candidates tick. PI is your superpower: It lets you see beneath the surface so you can predict how people will behave in given situations. Your Behavioral Report will provide a more nuanced summary of your specific results. If you…

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Developing self-aware leaders

Leadership opportunities provide another means of engaging employees. They also upskill your people at a time your organization needs it most. When developing leaders, it’s important to teach the value of self-awareness.  Using behavioral data, you can objectively walk employees through their unique behavioral strengths and caution areas. Then, you can compare their behavioral makeup to others…

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Empowering employees to be resilient

Resilience is the ability to manage through adversity by reacting to situations and managing them rather than letting them manage you.​ It’s what will hold your business strategy together, even when times are tough. But resilience also applies to the people of your organization. When the chips are down, every action or decision your people…

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Coaching employees

Managing your employees and providing feedback is important, but coaching them on how to get there is vital to their success. Schedule a recurring meeting to have open discussion about their personal and professional development. Remember, your responsibility isn’t to directly set a goal for them. Instead, ask clarifying questions and discuss paths they can…

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Building career paths

Giving people something to work towards will inspire them to grow. Progressing toward a goal is a strong motivator and opportunities to grow professionally is a top driver for employee engagement. This is why creating career paths for your employees has a direct impact on your business results. Clear career paths can help you motivate employees in…

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Creating flexibility and adaptability

As how we work changes, team flexibility becomes paramount. Roles can change from project to project, so it’s important for each member to be able to adapt where needed. As a manager, you should always set clear expectations and goals for the team, but you can use the behavioral drives to determine if you should…

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Creating team self-awareness

When thinking about high-performing teams, it’s important to first consider how “I,” as an individual, work. Everyone on the team, including team leaders, must have self-awareness of their own behavioral preferences and abilities before they can understand others. Using tools such as the PI Behavioral Assessment™ will allow you to not only understand yourself, but also allow…

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Communicating with the team in mind

We’ve talked about how awareness impacts your actions. What about your expression? Whether you’re in a 1:1 or team meeting, how you communicate impacts the effectiveness of the message. And this isn’t just about verbal communication. Non-verbal cues are important as well. Ask the following questions on the right to see how self-aware you really…

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