Science-backed HR software
Explore the scientific foundation of the assessments shaping our hiring, team dynamics, and performance management solutions
65
Years of science
37.5m
Assessments administered
383
Validity studies completed
The science that sets PI apart
We take pride in the fact that all our products are rooted in behavioral science. PI Science regularly monitors and improves the assessments that power our flagship products, while enhancing user experience throughout the employee lifecycle.
Best practices education
We support the PI partner network on appropriate workplace use, while conducting research that helps resolve user inquiries efficiently.
Product development
We ensure the integrity of the entire talent optimization platform, and prioritize the user experience through collaboration with engineering and design teams.
Psychometric research and certification
We regularly assess and maintain the psychometric properties of our assessments and products.
The science behind hiring with PI
The PI Hire solution hinges on the Behavioral Assessment and the Cognitive Assessment. Behavioral and cognitive data are strong predictors of on-the-job success, giving hiring teams a basis for understanding who will fit in a role.
PI Assessments
Unlock any employee’s potential. By understanding each employee’s cognitive and behavioral data, you can accommodate people’s needs, and enhance team dynamics through:
Behavioral and Cognitive Targets
Enable users to apply science-backed job targets as supplemental data points in a rigorous selection process.
Hiring team alignment
Provide hiring teams with enough data and perspectives to supplement their decision-making, and make good hires.
Validation and credibility
Ensure credibility and reliability through assessments certified by third-party reviewers for workplace use.
The science behind managing with PI
PI Inspire helps users leverage the Behavioral Assessment to learn more about their colleagues. Armed with science-backed insights, employees can support better work relationships.
Behavioral reports
Learn your most strongly expressed workplace drives, along with your preferred work style, strengths, and potential caution areas. Equip your manager with leadership tips they can leverage to optimize your work experience.
Relationship insights
Overlay your behavioral data with a co-worker’s to reveal your similarities and differences. Discover your shared relationship strengths, potential caution areas, and tips to improve interactions with one another.
Self-development guides
Compare your actual self to how you perceive the demands of your environment (self-concept). Get recommended conversation points to stretch your behaviors and shorten the gaps between your profile and the role.
The science behind employee engagement with PI
PI Diagnose allows you to examine employees’ experiences, gauging sentiment toward their jobs, managers, teams, and the organization at large. The PI Science team has worked tirelessly on new ways to illuminate these insights, including through:
Employee Engagement Surveys
See scores for all areas of the employee experience, including target and caution areas – those farthest below an external benchmark and most likely to move the needle. You can use action plans and short-form pulse surveys, administered at regular intervals, to track improvement.
Organization- and team-level reporting
Capture insights for your entire organization, or view team-level reports and scores for all teams of at least five. Sometimes, what appears to be an issue for the overall organization may not be a big problem for certain teams. Team-level insights allow specific teams to identify their unique caution areas.
Benchmarking and impact
on engagement
Gain context through team reports, which compare team scores to the organization’s scores. Analyze “Impact on Engagement” – a metric that informs how strongly correlated each question is with overall engagement.
The science behind team dynamics with PI
PI Design allows teams to leverage their behavioral insights as a collective. Our scientists worked to develop a way in which teams
can plot their behavioral patterns on a Team Map. Managers and teams can use Design to provide an overview of the entire team’s behavioral makeup. You can observe how differences in team members’ behavioral patterns may manifest with:
Team Discovery
Understand every team’s unique behavioral makeup, or Team Type. Visualize your team’s dynamics—including preferred work style, strengths, and potential caution areas—and use the information to encourage collaboration and self-awareness.
Team and strategy view
Walk through your current team goals and reveal your Strategy Type. Overlay your Team Type and Strategy Type on the Team Map to see where you’re equipped to execute the strategy, and where there are behavioral gaps.
Team development goals
Gauge strategic readiness with a dedicated Team Score, which you improve by building self-awareness as a team. Stay accountable to your goals with our in-app action planner, play to their strengths, and achieve your collective goals.
Learn more about our science
The Science Behind Reference Profiles
Reference profiles provide a rough description of a person’s PI Behavioral Assessment (BA) scores.