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…
Not every employee likes to work or be managed in the same way. Some people like clear rules and careful planning. Other people feel stifled by rules and prefer to wing it. By catering your onboarding process to these preferences, you can keep employees more engaged in the onboarding process. That doesn’t mean you need…
Many organizations don’t start onboarding until the employee official walks in the door. But why wait? By starting the onboarding process early, your new hires can begin to absorb your organization’s culture and values before their first day. They’ll hit their first week with more confidence, fewer hiccups, and stronger relationships. Check out our very…
When an organization hires a new employee, it’s rare that the employee immediately starts working. Instead, the employee needs to learn some basics first, like what their role is and how it helps the broader organization. The process of teaching an employee these basics is called onboarding. Onboarding is often defined as the first week…
How does it all come together? While Team Type tells us about a team’s culture, values, and natural proclivities, strategic emphasis tells us about the team’s goals and objectives. The combination of Team Types and strategic emphasis can answer questions such as: How can we leverage our team’s natural strengths? Where are our gaps when…
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…
Knowing your Team Type is just one step in achieving business results. You also need to consider the strategy to achieve those results. Understanding your team in the context of the work to be done helps you identify risks and gaps when it comes to executing your team’s strategy. The Predictive Index also conducted extensive…
An Adapting Team is one of the nine Team Types identified by The Predictive Index. Adapting Teams self-organize and work together when they see value in combining individual strengths. They exchange information organically, and expectations for how to work adapt over time. When conflict arises, it’s often because of behavioral differences. But the team is malleable…