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Predictive Index Applications
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Diversity can bring complementary talents together; it can empower a group to accomplish great things. In order to operate effectively as a group, people need to understand the impact of their own behavior, and be aware of others' points of view. Establishing and applying that understanding is one of the principal applications of PI.
Poor communication, ineffective leadership and/or a lack of common goals can prevent teams from achieving their goals. By providing objective information about motivating needs and styles of group members, PI helps to bridge gaps, maximize the strengths of each of the team member and ultimately apply those strengths to achieve common goals.
Using the PRO (Performance Requirements Options) you can arrive at better consensus on the behavioral job requirements, and improve your selection and retention efforts.
The PRO helps you understand the specific behaviors that lead to most effective performance in a particular job, given the realities of your organization's methods, markets, processes and management. It describes the drives and behaviors that are necessary for success, and also gives you insight into similarities and differences that might exist in various individuals' approaches to the same job.
While most of our clients use PI as the cornerstone of their selection process, many have also found it helpful in fine-tuning their recruitment strategies.
Using PI to better target candidates maximizes your productivity. PI measures the motivating needs in people, and the kinds of stimuli to which an individual is most likely to respond positively. By making sure your external communications contain ideas and language that resonate with the type of person you're hoping to attract, the odds of success are increased.
PI enhances your proven hiring practices. It complements your traditional interviews and background checks, and provides insight into a candidate's workplace behavior that even an in-depth interview could never reveal.
The Predictive Index process can enable a more thorough, disciplined and objective approach to hiring decisions. In addition to giving your managers and HR professionals specific, objective information, PI can also serve as a source of insightful, probing questions about the candidate's capabilities, as well as how they might handle a specific work situation.
As your business moves forward and changes, what capabilities will you need? Do you have the leadership in place to execute your plans? How will you plan for succession? Have you identified your future leaders, and are you preparing them for the challenges ahead?
PI can help you chart your organization's future by allowing you to take an objective look at the drives, capacities and motivations of the leadership team that will shape and execute your business plans.
For an organization to maximize its investment in its people, managers also have to become good coaches. They must learn how to lead and develop others.
PI gives your managers accurate, reliable information about their people's motivating drives, behaviors, and operating styles. as well as the tools they need to bring about positive, productive changes in workplace behavior.
In a healthy organization, where there are appropriate channels and ways of expressing differences, disagreements are a natural part of working together. In fact, a certain degree of “creative conflict” can be energizing. However, when differences lead to personal confrontation, inappropriate aggression, or intolerably high levels of tension, something must be done. This is the job of the manager, often in partnership with an HR professional.
By comparing the patterns of those involved, the manager can gain an objective understanding of the similarities and differences that potentially contribute to the difficulties. Armed with that knowledge, the manager can then use PI to work out an approach to the situation that will be most acceptable to, and effective with, the people involved.
Every action and communication in the organization has an impact on the people in it. Every contact a manager has with an employee is an opportunity to motivate -- or to de-motivate. And of course, not everyone responds in a similar manner. How can we gain enthusiasm and energy for our business initiatives? How can we maximize the amount of energy each employee will devote to the benefit of the company and his or her success in the job?
Predictive Index from PI Worldwide gives you very specific insights into how individuals are motivated. It also helps you understand how they will perceive the demands of the environment, what kinds of work most invigorate them, and many other factors contributing to motivation.
Retaining talented, motivated employees is vital to the success of any company. Often, the primary distinguishing characteristic of an industry leader is the quality and motivation of people across the organization. In addition, the cost of turnover is enormous, not only in terms of out-of-pocket expenses related to severance, recruitment and selection, but also in lost opportunity and productivity.
PI can help you retain employees by improving the fit between individuals and jobs at the point of selection, by providing more rewarding work experiences, and by developing managers to lead and motivate people more effectively.