PI Behavioral Assessment™
In just 6 minutes, gain valuable insights into each individual’s strengths, work style, communication preferences, and motivation needs.
What is a PI Behavioral Assessment™?
The Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment™ is a scientifically validated tool designed to help you understand the natural behaviors and motivators of your employees and candidates. This simple, non-invasive assessment provides invaluable insights into how individuals behave and what drives them in the workplace. By understanding these core behavioral traits, you can build stronger teams, enhance collaboration, and improve organizational performance.
Using PI’s methodology, you’ll gain insight into people’s:
Behavioral Drives
The natural tendencies that influence how people act, interact, and react in various situations.
Motivational Patterns
What motivates each individual to perform at their best and feel fulfilled in their roles.
Workplace Dynamics
How different behavioral types interact with one another and how you can create high-performing teams.
Key Benefits
Why Choose PI Behavioral Assessment™?
PI Behavioral Assessment™ provides deep insights into the behavior and motivation of individuals in the workplace. By applying these insights, you can make data-driven decisions that help your organization thrive.
Optimize Hiring
Identify the best fit for your company culture and specific job roles based on natural behavioral tendencies.
Enhance Team Collaboration
Build high-functioning teams by understanding behavioral dynamics and creating complementary teams.
Improve Leadership
Understand the natural leadership styles of your managers and leaders, and help them develop strategies to inspire and engage their teams
Boost Employee Engagement
Align employees’ roles with their intrinsic motivators, improving job satisfaction and productivity.
Faster Onboarding
With clear insights into a new hire’s strengths and developmental areas, you can create a tailored onboarding experience that helps them ramp up quickly.
Science
The Science that Powers the PI Behavioral Assessment™
The PI Behavioral Assessment™ is rooted in decades of research into human behavior, ensuring that the insights you gain are both accurate and reliable. Based on a proven framework, the PI Behavioral Assessment™ analyzes four key behavioral drives that shape how people behave at work:
Dominance
The extent to which a person seeks to influence others and control situations.
Extraversion
The degree to which a person interacts with others and seeks social interaction.
Patience
How a person reacts to change, and how they balance stability and consistency.
Formality
The level of adherence to rules, structure, and procedures in the workplace.
These drives are then used to create a clear, easy-to-understand behavioral profile that explains how each individual interacts with their environment and teammates.
How it Works
Easy to implement, easy to understand
Implementing the PI Behavioral Assessment™ is easy. It takes just 6 minutes to complete, and results are instantly available in a detailed, easy-to-interpret report.
Take the Assessment
Individuals complete a quick behavioral survey available in 70+ languages, ensuring global accessibility.
Review Results
Gain access to a comprehensive report that outlines key behavioral traits and motivational patterns.
Apply Insights
Use the results to inform hiring decisions, team-building strategies, leadership development, and more.
Our tool is designed to be intuitive and actionable. You don’t need to be an expert to understand the insights—it’s all laid out in a clear, digestible format.
Applications
Real-world applications for every business need
The PI Behavioral Assessment isn’t just a tool for HR—it’s a versatile resource that can be applied across various functions and industries. Here’s how different teams can use it:
Talent Acquisition
Assess candidates to ensure they align with your company’s values and the demands of the role, improving hiring accuracy and reducing turnover.
Leadership Development
Gain deeper insights into the natural strengths and challenges of leaders to help them motivate and manage their teams more effectively.
Team Building
Understand your team members’ behavioral styles to optimize collaboration, reduce conflict, and improve performance.
Employee Retention
By understanding your employees' strengths and motivations, you can tailor your management approach to foster growth and improve retention.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
The Predictive Index is a behavioral assessment tool designed to help organizations identify the natural behavioral drives and needs of their employees, job candidates, and teams. The PI assessment measures four key behavioral drives: Dominance, Extraversion, Patience, and Formality.
Those who take the PI Behavioral Assessment™ are presented with two questions, each pertaining to a single shared list of adjectives. The PI assessment is typically administered online and consists of two questions, each pertaining to a single list of adjectives. The first question asks assessment takers to select adjectives that describe the way in which they’re expected to behave at work. The second question, by contrast, asks them to select the adjectives they’d actually use to describe themselves. The assessment takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and results in a behavioral pattern report that describes an individual’s natural behavioral tendencies and work style.
The PI Behavioral Assessment™can be used for a variety of purposes, including recruitment and selection, team building, leadership development, and performance management. The assessment can help organizations identify the behavioral drives and needs of their employees, which can be used to improve communication, increase employee engagement, and enhance overall job performance.
The PI Behavioral Assessment™ has been validated through extensive research and has been found to be both reliable and valid. The assessment has been used by thousands of organizations around the world and has a high degree of predictive validity in terms of job performance.
The PI Behavioral Assessment™ can provide individuals with valuable insights into their natural behavioral tendencies and work style. By understanding their strengths and weaknesses, individuals can identify areas for development and create strategies to improve their job performance. Additionally, individuals can use the information from the assessment to improve their communication and collaboration with their colleagues and managers.
What our clients say
“PI has been instrumental in providing us with a greater understanding of candidates' workplace conduct, identifying strengths and areas for improvement. It has improved communication, collaboration, and job satisfaction, while reducing turnover rates. PI also offers valuable insights for effective collaboration, enhancing efficiency and overall job contentment. We highly recommend PI to organizations seeking behavioral and work style insights for their employees.”
"The Predictive Index tool has transformed our approach to talent management. The tool's assessment of the behavioral drives has allowed to understand our employees on a deeper level and identify their strengths and areas for improvement. By leveraging this information, we have been able to build more effective teams, improve communication, and foster a more positive and productive work environment. Overall, I highly recommend the Predictive Index tool to any organization that wants to take a more data-driven approach to talent management. It has truly been a game-changer for our company."
"I recently used the PI system to analyze candidates' behavioral attitudes and found it to be a very helpful tool. The system was user-friendly and easy to navigate, allowing me to easily assess the four key factors. Overall, I would rate the PI system a 7 out of 10 for its effectiveness and ease of use. I particularly appreciated how it enabled me to quickly gain insights into a candidate's behavioral tendencies and better understand their potential fit for a role. If you're looking for a powerful tool to assess candidates' behavioral traits, I would definitely recommend giving the PI system a try."
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