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Predictive Index Applications
The Predictive Index can be used for many applications.
Below is how you can use PI to improve your organization's
effectiveness and productivity.
Build Strong
Teams
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.
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Define
Job Requirements
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.
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Attract
the Best Candidates
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, you increase
your odds of success.
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Select
& Hire the Right People
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.
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Plan
for Future Growth
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.
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Develop
Your People
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.
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Deal
Effectively with Conflict
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.
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Motivate
Your People
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?
PI 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.
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Retain
Valuable Employees
Retaining talented, motivated people 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 people 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.
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