Predictive Index Gives Us a Variety of Options
April 10, 2017

Predictive Index Gives Us a Variety of Options

Jennifer Glover | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with PI Behavioral Assessment

We use the PI for a variety of situations. We use it as a part of our recruiting for hard-to-find niche positions, as development for teams and coaching for individuals. We use it for all parts of our company. We have had success with the insight it provides for individuals, and the vast majority of people receiving the feedback from the assessments feel it's spot-on. They love that the assessment takes less than 10 minutes, so it's an easy sell for a reluctant, busy employee. The only downfall I would say about the assessment is the standard reporting can feel a bit "canned". I've had some users say the report was 100% accurate to them and some claim 85%. Those saying 85% feel the PI was entirely accurate when I debrief them specifically on the graphs provided.
  • The PI excels in helping people understand the intensity of their natural, instinctual behaviors and, when compared to others' charts, how that intensity may play out differently than they'd hoped.
  • The PI is excellent helping people understand how they are currently feeling about an adaptation and if it is currently causing them frustration or potentially burn-out.
  • The recruiting guides and questions are very helpful.
  • The reporting can feel a bit canned. Some users have described it as an 85% match.
  • Matching a pattern to a pattern name/description can be challenging occasionally.
  • In the recruiting process, we've been able to find good fits for niche positions, and the added benefit is onboarding them is quicker because we already have an idea of what their development plan should be.
We use multiple assessments for a variety of reasons. This one is the most versatile that we have. Others we use either for individual development or team development, but PI is the only one we use for Recruiting, individual development and team development.
My favorite use for PI is with teams to help them understand their team dynamics and why some people struggle working together. I do have to approach highly technical, engineering-type employees differently because the brevity of the survey tends to make they distrust the validity. In those cases, I usually have the leader take the assessment individually, and once he/she is onboard, they will sell it to the team.