PI Diagnose empowers users to collect detailed, actionable feedback about the employee experience. As with any engagement platform worth its salt, Diagnose was built on science and diligent research. In this article, you’ll learn more about the science behind PI Diagnose and the studies that helped shape the software. We’ll cover: The PI Employee Experience…
Soliciting employee feedback is a critical part of building a best-in-class company culture. When your people feel safe to share candid, timely, and specific feedback, it brings you one step closer to creating meaningful change in your organization. But feedback alone won’t spark that change—action must follow. Unfortunately, many leaders struggle to translate feedback into…
Expectations and norms can help, but it’s even more important for your team to practice awareness. When an individual understands who they are at work and understands who others are like around them, they get a clearer picture of how to interact with one another. Think of someone who doesn’t show up to a meeting…
Now that we have some basic expectations set, it’s time to focus on how we actually communicate with each other. Not everyone communicates the same way. As a result, it’s important to set ground rules on the words and methods we use to communicate. The norms we describe below should not be set by one…
Why is your team important to your business? What does your team do every day? If your team can’t answer those questions, it might indicate communication issues. Setting clear expectations is important to make sure that regardless of personal differences, each member can agree about their goals. Create S.M.A.R.T. goals Just like your organization has…
We’ve all had that one person at work we didn’t agree with. That disagreement is okay—even beneficial. People are unique. When they express their different perspectives, there’s always a risk of conflict. The problem is when this leads to unhealthy conflict. When people on a team stop communicating effectively, projects get derailed. Even when people get…
Engagement is something any great organization strives for. When people are engaged by their work, team, and organization, they tend to give their 100% each day. Yet engagement can be a difficult concept to grasp. How do you measure it, let alone improve it? In this article, you’ll learn the definition of engagement, the four…
PI Diagnose is designed to ensure your voice is being heard within your organization, so you can enjoy a better employee experience. When you share candid feedback with your manager, you give them the ability to act on that data and create the change you seek. This is only possible when you’re open and honest—and…
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…
What are the origins of team strategic emphasis? PI’s strategic and team objectives are based upon Quinn & Rohrbaugh’s Competing Values Framework (1983), a popular tool for describing organizational effectiveness and culture. In developing these objectives, PI’s Science team conducted an extensive literature review and test development process to ensure that the objectives were sound,…
To determine team member plot points, each team member’s A:C and B:D Factor Combinations are converted into percentile ranks, representing how high or low the Factor Combination value is with respect to all other values. For example, an A:C value of 0.6 is in the 59th percentile, so 59% of all possible A:C values are…
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…