PI BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT™
A SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED PERSONALITY TEST THAT MEASURES MOTIVATIONAL DRIVES AND PREDICTS BEHAVIOUR
Without the use of a personality assessment you risk only being able to see the observable behaviour without understanding what drives the behaviour and the underlying needs.
PI Behavioral Assessment™ is a science-based framework that maps personality in four motivational drives. The drives and their relation to each other constitute a person’s behavioural pattern and ultimately help you understand the underlying needs and the associated behaviour.
The PI Behavioral Assessment offers actionable insight into needs, behaviours, motivations and development areas. There are no wrong personality profiles; it is about whether the person profile matches what is needed in that position. Therefore, we do not call the PI BA a ‘personality test’ as the word ‘test’ indicates that it is something that you can pass or fail. Instead, we refer to the PI BA as a personality assessment, personal profile or behavioural analysis that provides insight into needs, behaviours and development opportunities in a workplace context.
SIMPLE & SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED
PI Behavioral Assessment is a personality profile or behavioural analysis tool that is both simple and quick to learn – and easy to apply, yet scientifically constructed and validated. PI BA is available in more than 65 languages, ensuring that external candidates and employees even in large multinationals can complete the assessment in their mother tongue.
With more than 25 million people assessed since the launch in the 1950’s, a validity vault of 350+ studies, and EEOC adherence, PI BA adds scientifically validated objectivity to your subjective judgement.
APPLYING PI BA
PI Behavioral Assessment is more than a recruitment tool to help you identify candidates who will be motivated and thrive in a given role. PI BA is applicate throughout the entire employee lifecycle. PI BA will help you in a range of areas including but not limited to:
FAQ
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PI BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT
What is the PI Behavioral Assessment?
The PI Behavioral Assessment is a workplace personality test that helps organisations understand a person’s natural behavioural drives, needs and work styles. It provides insight into what motivates a person, how they tend to communicate, how they approach work, and what type of environment is likely to help them thrive.
Is the PI Behavioral Assessment a personality test?
Yes. It can be described as a workplace personality assessment, but we prefer not to call it a “test”, because that can imply that there are right or wrong answers, or that you can pass or fail. The PI Behavioral Assessment is better understood as a behavioural profile or personality assessment that provides insight into needs, motivations and workplace behaviour.
What does the PI Behavioral Assessment measure?
The PI Behavioral Assessment measures four primary workplace-related behavioural drives: Dominance, Extraversion, Patience and Formality. These drives help explain how a person tends to influence others, interact socially, respond to pace and change, and approach rules, structure and detail. The assessment also includes Objectivity as a secondary factor related to decision-making style.
How does the PI Behavioral Assessment work?
The assessment is a free-choice assessment that usually takes less than 10 minutes to complete. The respondent chooses a number of words from an adjective checklist, which are translated into a behavioural pattern. This pattern shows the relative strength of the person’s key behavioural drives and provides a practical framework for understanding their likely workplace behaviour.
Can the PI Behavioral Assessment be used for hiring, recruitment, talent acquisition or pre-employment testing?
Yes. The PI Behavioral Assessment can be used in hiring and recruitment when applied responsibly. It helps talent acquisition specialists and hiring teams compare a candidate’s behavioural pattern with the behavioural requirements of a role. However, it should be used as one data point alongside structured interviews, experience, skills, references and other relevant information like the PI Cognitive Assessment
Can you fail the PI Behavioral Assessment?
No. You cannot fail the PI Behavioral Assessment. There are no right or wrong profiles. The assessment is designed to provide insight into behavioural drives and work-related needs. In recruitment, the question is not whether someone has passed or failed, but whether their natural behavioural style fits the requirements of the role.
Can people fake their answers?
The PI Behavioral Assessment is designed to reduce the likelihood and impact of faking. There are no obvious right or wrong answers, and the assessment uses a free-choice adjective checklist format that makes it difficult to consciously engineer a specific result. As with any self-report assessment, people should be encouraged to answer honestly and naturally.
How long does it take to complete the PI Behavioral Assessment?
The PI Behavioral Assessment is untimed and typically takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Because of its free-choice format, it provides valid and accurate results while being quick to complete.
Can The PI Behavioral Assessment predict job performance?
Yes, it can support the prediction of job performance when used correctly. When used along with the PI Job Assessment, the PI Behavioral Assessment helps identify the fit between a person and a role, and PI’s validity research links BA results to workplace behaviours and performance outcomes. Job success is influenced by many factors, so the assessment should be combined with other information such as skills, experience, cognitive ability, motivation and interview data.
Are there good and bad profiles?
No. There are no good or bad PI Behavioral Assessment profiles. Every behavioural pattern has strengths, potential caution areas and environments where it is likely to be more or less effective. The important question is not whether a profile is “good”, but whether the person’s natural drives fit the requirements of the role, team or situation.
PEOPLE
PI BA works throughout the employee lifecycle
HIRE
ONBOARD
INSPIRE
PI BA is used on existing employees to provide actionable insight into needs and behaviours.
PI BA helps you understand if the needs of your employees are being met, how to coach them to efficiency, how to inspire and develop them and ultimately increase engagement.
A number of reports are available to support the use of PI BA on existing employees.
TEAMS
PI BA helps you establish and engage high performing teams
As a personality assessment or personality profile, PI BA offers actionable insight into needs, behaviours, motivations, strengths and development areas. This source of unbiased insight improves empathy, communication, collaboration and leads to productivity and effectiveness on your teams.
Our take on high performing teams and how PI BA can help aspire to that is:
- A high performing team has sufficient behavioural diversity to be agile and avoid group think
- Diversity has to be managed to avoid dysfunctional team dynamics
- Optimal team dynamics requires understanding and acceptance of behavioural diversity that is driven by underlying motivational drives
PI BA can be used to create awareness and acceptance around behavioural diversity:
- When establishing teams
- When selecting new team members
- When optimising existing teams
MANAGERS
PI BA helps your managers get insight
Keeping employees motivated and engaged requires more than ideal person-position matches. PI BA helps your managers understand which needs to fulfil, how people complement each other, and how to coach and utilise the potential of their people effectively.
Based on PI BA a number of reports to support the management of employees exist, but perhaps even more important PI BA will help you manage and develop your managers as well.
Amongst the portfolio of reports are Manager Development Chart and Management Strategy Guide, Coaching Guides, all designed to increase self-awareness in your managers and to support them in their management of people. We offer management training to help kick start the establishment of a common language in your organisation around personality profiles, drives, needs and behaviour.
