Advances in psychometrics and talent analytics have unlocked new ways to measure team chemistry. Powerful assessments like The Predictive Index measure social traits and cognitive functions across four key dimensions.
- Dominance: The drive to exert one’s influence on people or events
- Extraversion: The drive for social interaction with other people
- Patience: The drive for consistency and stability
- Formality: The drive to conform to rules and structure
This framework generates profiles for hiring managers and teams to understand the personality traits of their hires better. This way, you’re better able to structure communication, training, and workflow to keep these people engaged. Common examples include.
- Analyzers: High standards with a disciplined and reserved personality
- Venturers: Self-starting, goal-oriented risk-takers
- Guardians: Unselfish and approachable with a preference for detailed skill-based work
- Altruists: Congenial and co-operative with an efficient, precise work ethic
- Mavericks: Confident challengers of the status quo who are undaunted by failure
When assembled effectively, teams demonstrate a balance of strengths. The ideal combination complements weaknesses and multiplies strengths. As technology has advanced, so has the ability to hire for specific skill set, personality type, and level of engagement your team needs to achieve your goals. One of these methodologies is called The Predictive Index and it assesses an applicant’s fit based on their unique combination of dominance, extraversion, patience and formality when it comes to work. That assessment breaks people out into one of seventeen different behavioral profiles – and this is where you can start to use data to structure your teams for the most success.
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