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The State of Talent Optimization 2023
PI Inspire: Improve a relationship
Understanding yourself and others. When people understand their similarities and differences—and they’ve negotiated the best ways of working together—magic happens. Working with someone similar to yourself is intuitive. But, when the person you’re working with is different than you, it takes deliberate effort to change your own behavior so that you interact with them effectively….
PI Inspire: Upskill an employee
Building career paths Progressing toward a goal is a strong motivator and opportunities to grow professionally is a top driver for employee engagement. Clear career paths can help you motivate employees in a way that’s aligned with your business and their desires. How do you ensure you’re setting them up for success? Most companies define specific skills…
The science behind Diagnose Survey customization
PI Diagnose empowers leaders to send engagement surveys and gather candid feedback to improve the employee experience. To enhance the value of these surveys, Diagnose now allows you to customize your surveys before sharing them with your team or organization. How Survey customization works When you log in to PI Diagnose, you’ll land on the…
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…
Introduction [Putting Work on Trial]
The word “work” can represent many things, depending on who you ask. But as we manage remote roles, a pandemic, and economic challenges, people are starting to challenge the idea that work should just be about surviving. We traveled across the states to talk to experts on workplace topics as well as a range of…
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…
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…
Measure what matters
Why measuring what matters is important to talent optimization If diagnose is similar to an annual physical exam with your doctor, the activity of measuring is having bloodwork done. Just as a doctor would order blood tests to measure cell counts, a business should collect and measure its people data. Most businesses regularly monitor key…
Introduction to Diagnose
Diagnose is part four of the four-part talent optimization framework. This is where you’ll measure critical people data, analyze that data in the context of your business, and prescribe remedies as needed. Why diagnosis is important to talent optimization Consider how a medical doctor uses reliable lab results to measure a person’s overall health, evaluates…