Three Is Better Than One

Did you ever think how fortunate we are today to have various types of psychometric assessments? With so many aspects of the talent pipeline critical to the growth and performance of organizations, any edge in identifying the right candidate or developing talent is a big win.

For years, organizations have focused primarily on behavioral style assessments. They provide good insights, but alone they don’t give you the whole picture. To prove this point, we recently had a client who was certified in a DISC behavioral style assessment tool and was hesitant to consider a different assessment. So we presented the client with two individuals who had taken our TalMetrics assessment tool and both had similar DISC behavioral styles. The natural impression was that both would show up similarly.

However, long ago, we realized that people are complex beings, and behaviors (how an individual shows up) are just the tip of the iceberg. The bigger question is, what’s happening below the surface that manifests into the behaviors we can observe. To solve this, and knowing that three is better than one, we add two other styles in addition to DISC, that probe below the surface to identify what motivates and drives an individual, and most importantly, how they think and make decisions. Adding these below-the-surface insights clearly showed our client that regardless of similar behavioral styles, the two individuals were very different people, who also had variant levels of talent.

The differentiator in our unique assessment is the Thinking Style component of the tool. It is revolutionizing the assessment world and is based upon Nobel nominated research into human decision theory. It is comprised of three sophisticated algorithms that calculate an individual’s capacity to make the correct choices when faced with the problems, challenges and opportunities they encounter.

It also measures the ability of an individual to organize their intellectual and emotional intelligence. It does this by measuring how people actually think, by having them perform a thinking task, and then, using complex mathematics, produce a detailed picture of a person’s preferred thinking process. It also has the unique ability to calculate decision speed, the capacity to work effectively with others, and make right decisions while operating within the established framework of your organization.

Simply put, three is better than one. The combination of thinking, behavioral and motivational styles creates applications in talent selection, onboarding, new leader integration, coaching and building high performance teams. Learn more about the Thinking Style assessment here and join the revolution:http://www.talmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/thinking-style-white-paper1.pdf