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The Science of Dream Teams
The Importance of Talent Optimization in Today’s Workforce
By Kailey Houle
With 3.5% unemployment and a continuing reces- sion, the pressure to build a collaborative, productive, and happy workplace is greater than ever.
“We all benefit on the business side from productivity, engagement, and performance. But more importantly, for every person in this room and every person you’ve ever worked with, is their act two: not work, but going home,” Mike Zani said. “And if you send them home more energized, hap- pier, more fulfilled with purpose, then you’ve sent home a happier spouse, a better parent, better siblings, and bet- ter neighbors. If leaders do this right, they can create a more meaningful
“Talent optimization
is linking the third leg of the stool, linking business strategy to results. If you don’t get results, you don’t have the privilege of staying in business.”
community than they already are.” Zani was the 16th speaker at Bay
Path University’s Innovative Thinking & Entrepreneurial Lecture. The uni- versity’s Business Leadership Council launched the series to connect stu- dents and others with innovators, such as Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick; Delcie Bean, CEO of Paragus Strategic IT; and Michelle Wirth, president of Mercedes-Benz of Springfield.
Zani, CEO of the Predictive Index and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Drives Engagement, Productivity and Happi- ness, spoke to a large audience about the importance of talent optimiza-
tion and how the Predictive Index (PI) Assessment is helping companies and organizations make better, data-driven, people-centered decisions.
What Is the PI Assessment?
Arnold Daniels, creator and founder of the Predictive Index Assessment,
got the idea for it when he served as
a flight navigator in World War II. His team logged more than 30 missions,
all without a single combat casualty. When commanders noted the team’s record, they sent a psychologist in to
work with Daniels to study just what made their teamwork so successful.
In 1952, Daniels released the first PI Assessment, and three years later, he founded PI Worldwide, now called the Predictive Index. The Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment was created through a normative sample of thou- sands of people and has since been the
subject of nearly 500 validation studies. It has received continual updates and today represents a well-established, business-relevant, and scientifically proven measure of behavioral tenden- cies in the workplace.
PI later introduced the PI Cognitive Assessment, which provides a better understanding of each person’s learn-
ing capacity, and the Job Assessment, which defines jobs via individual attri- butes and needs. Together with the
PI Behavioral Assessment, this trio of tools has fulfilled Daniels’ vision — identifying what uniquely motivates and drives each person, and setting them up for ultimate success in their work.
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