How does understanding the behavioral styles of employees make a manager more effective?

Effective business managers know that leadership management and development must be a constant focus of their job. They know that for any organization to get the full measure of their investment in their employees, they have to become strong leaders, learning how to coach and develop everyone on their team.

The Predictive Index supplies management with the information they need to understand the operating styles and other behaviors of employees, as well as the tools needed to produce positive changes in workplace behavior.

Leadership management and behavioral insight

By revealing motivating needs and behavioral styles of staff, PI helps you maximize employees strengths and apply those strengths to achieve common goals. You get in-depth information that helps you identify behavioral drives and operating styles, as well as the insight needed to achieve positive, productive changes in the workplace by understanding workplace behavior.

PI shows you how individuals are motivated, helps you understand how they will perceive the environmental demands of the workplace, what kinds of work most invigorate, and many other factors contributing to motivation and job satisfaction.

Comparing individuals' PI's with job requirements, highlights the fits and gaps, enabling better-informed training, coaching, leadership development, and performance management. Good leadership decisions require good data, and Predictive Index provides exactly that.

Leadership management results from Predictive Index

Lumberman's is in the business of distributing building materials to home center stores. In an industry going through major changes, the company has increased its chances for success by having the business management team trained to motivate employees with PI-provided information. One manager admitted that PI is the single best thing the company has given him to run his division.

Another leadership management success

In 1997, John Tischer became president of Persona, which produces high quality, custom signs for major corporations. Trained to use PI previously, he knew PI could provide the insight to make strategic management decisions for his new company.

Tischer rearranged the senior managers' responsibilities to better suit their strengths, investing in PI training for Persona's top 20 managers. "It's a matter of having the right people in the right jobs and motivating them right," he said.

PI has given Persona a distinct advantage with PI-trained top management who have the skills to communicate more effectively with their direct reports and motivate them for peak performance. One telling example of the success of this approach is an enterprising purchasing manager, identified with the help of PI, who dramatically reduced freight and materials expenses. In his first year on the job, he saved the company $350,000.

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