Talent Optimization
Introducing the Cultivating Team
A Cultivating Team is one of the nine Team Types identified by The Predictive Index. Cultivating Teams are friendly and accepting. They make group decisions and respect the consensus. For the most part, Cultivating Teams avoid conflict. But when it occurs, they address it in a constructive manner and use it to strengthen relationships. There’s…
Introducing the Bolstering Team
A Bolstering Team is one of the nine Team Types identified by The Predictive Index. Bolstering Teams are supportive of each other’s ideas, and like to brainstorm together in the name of innovation. They always cheer each other on, communicate informally, and enjoy robust discussions. They’re proactive in helping each other and sharing information. Since…
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…
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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…
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…
Reinforce your culture
Why protecting your culture is important to talent optimization It’s been said that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” When an organization’s culture is aligned with its business strategy, it acts as a catalyst for individual and collective productivity. But if left unmonitored and unmanaged, a toxic culture can develop and spread throughout the organization—zapping engagement…
Ensure productive peer relationships
Why productive peer relationships are important to talent optimization When a sole proprietor adds their first employee, they open a door to expanded output—and interpersonal conflict. When any two people in an organization collaborate, they are able to share resources, skills, knowledge, and abilities in mutually beneficial ways. Two people not only can do twice…