Newsletter
June 2009
Crisis is the best time to affect change. What’s your crisis? I am seeing things settle down in the past few months and the presence of better business news is now a daily event. However it still is an ideal time for Predictive index trained managers to reflect and do some self awareness thinking. Read more
Dave Lahey, President Predictive Success
Engaging Your Team In A QTIP Culture. It seems that just when you think you’ve heard or seen everything a moment
comes your way that shakes that belief completely. I was working with a group in the health care field recently and someone made a comment that set me back. It was so simple and yet from an effective management perspective it set
the clock back several decades. Read more
Bob Woodcock Managing Principal, Predictive Success
May 2009
Improving Corporate Communication Using Behavioural Data According to legendary management guru Peter Drucker, "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said". Imagine the volume of what isn’t being said in businesses across the globe on a daily basis. How can we find a way to either plug into this stream of conscious but non verbalized communication or better yet, understand how what we are saying is being received and perceived. Read more.
Bob Woodcock Managing Principal, Predictive Success
Queens Business Consulting - Customer Research Report
In February 2009, Predictive Success enlisted in a third party, the reputable Queen's Business Consulting, to engage in a customer research study. The purpose was to use this information to identify value-added of the Predictive Index and improve customer service. Read more
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The Newest Member of the Predictive Success Team, Curtis Lahey CMO The Predictive Success Corporation, one of Canada's leading human capital management &assessment firms, is pleased to announce the appointment of Curtis Lahey to (CMO) Chief Media Officer, a new role for the company. Read more
Predictive Success
April 2009
Achieving More with Your Current Investment "As the number of applications (i.e. value) increases, the perceived cost decreases"
Predictive Index® has been in existence for more than 55 years, and yet many clients are still using the Predictive Index for less than 40 % of the total value the program brings to companies who are using it. Read more.
Doug McCann Managing Principal, Predictive Success
Making the Cut, Part 2 ,
In my last article I discussed the changes that we've experienced in the talent management landscape as a result of the economic downturn. At the midpoint of 2008 business leaders felt that attracting and retaining talent was a key business driver. Little did we know that the shift in focus would be to retention of talent and in some cases the reduction of headcount .Read more.
Bob Woodcock, Managing Principal, Predictive Success
Foxhole – “Staying-in-my-Bunker” Manager is Not the Best Strategy.
I read this past weekend a great article in the business section the NY Times by Kelley Holland. Kelley wrote an op-ed about the need to have good managers helping their employees to cope with the uncertain times we have ahead. We know that 2009 will continue to be a challenge and we also know that we will come out of this with better processes in many of our business as a result of the tough slugging we are going through. Read more
Dave Lahey, President Predictive Success
Assess, Inspire, Ignite!" The Role of Assessment Data in Talent Management & Employee Engagement" A Healthcare Industry Event May 6th 8:30am-12pm Mississauga, ON click here for more info.
March 2009
Top 10 Reasons Managers Fear Assessment Testing -Much like the fear of the unknown with the current state of the economy, many organizational management teams fear workplace assessments. But is this fear justified? It is real? Or is it merely an exaggeration? Let’s look at the Top 10 Read more..
Kristy Kahler, Senior Marketing Associate, Predictive Success
Making the Cut, Part 1 - What a difference a year makes. The message we were left with from the Human Resources Professional Association conference Innovate ’08 was that talent management would become increasingly more challenging as the “grey wave” of baby boomers exited the workforce. As of the midpoint in 2008, over 60% of HR professionals felt that attracting and retaining talent was a key business driver. Read more...
Bob Woodcock, Managing Principal, Predictive Successs
Communication = The Results That You Get - PI is an instrument with many applications and one of the least used is as a powerful communication tool. Of all the things we do every day communication is likely the most important and yet the least understood. Read more...
Larry McCorquodale
March marks the month of NCAA's College Basketball March Madness. Pat Summitt, head coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols achieved the 1000th win milestone this season, becoming only the first Division One coach in NCAA history to achieve this feat. Did you know that Pat Summitt has been a user of PI for over 10 seasons, and is a big believer in understanding the behavioural makeup of the players that she's recruiting? Hear more
ESPN Pat Summitt Interview
February 2009
Breaking News! Predictive Index Management Program Reward CHRP Recertification Credits "Predictive Success is please to announce that the Predictive Index Management Program" Read more...
Kristy Kahler Senior Marketing Associate Predictive Success
Right Sizing & Out Placement with the Predictive Index Program "During the challenging economic times, senior leaders have to be looking at all ways to drive revenues and margins." Read more...
David Osborne, Vice President Business Development, Predictive Success
Cutting That Training Budget Is A No-Brainer, Right? Reduce the budget now! After all, conventional wisdom tells us that when the going gets tough, it's easiest that training is the first to get going. But this may not be so wise. For cutting the training budget might just be cutting into your organization's future success. Read more
Extracted from TrendWatcher, February 13, 2009 Issue 446 By Kevin Oakes and Mike Grohs.
January 2009
"Trends We See For 2009" Remember those kids in high school and university who were really good at math? They will be
winners the next five years. Our world is faced with a tremendous number of complex challenges
and fascinating opportunities,
and it’s the math experts who will figure it out. That’s because they have mastered the skill of
processing complex analytical algorithms with massive computing horsepower, and are solving
some of world’s most complicated issues by doing so. Read more...
Dave Lahey President Predictive Success
"Baby Boomers Want Out" Within the next 10 years Canadian business owners of small and medium‑sized
companies will exit from ownership. The transaction value of these private companies is
approximately $1.3 trillion. In other words this is over $100 billion every year until 2019.
The number of companies this represents is over 125,000 or 12,500 companies a year. Read more...
Perry Phillips President ESOP Builders Inc
"The Right People" As association executives navigate the modern day constraints that currently define their
operational challenges (i.e. revenue levels, strategic relevance to the stakeholders they serve,
tightening of leadership availability, operating budgets), many are desperate for an advantage
that can give them an edge in getting ahead of the curve, rather than becoming a victim of it. Read more...
Gary Brown Managing Principal Predictive Success
Calgary