Learn about who we are, what we do and how we do it! Discover the importance of assessment tools and the insight they provide. Our assessments provide you with consistent, in-depth and objective information about your people.
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Learn how employee assessments give organizations tools that helps leaders make smarter people decisions.
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We initiated this study to help us better understand the factors that drive employee productivity within an organization. This report discusses the top five people factors that drive productivity.
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You always have the opportunity to optimize your organizational talent. The bottom line is that you need to know your human capital inventory well enough to make the best decision. Our researchers identified four essential tactics to optimize your talent.
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The Aberdeen Group conducted research in order to understand how businesses use assessments to drive better decisions. According to their research, top performing organizations were found to be using assessments more broadly across employee populations and job roles.
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Recently, Profiles International and Sam Houston State University surveyed a cross section of Texas companies across a wide range of industries. We asked business leaders about their top challenges for 2009. Our goal: to learn how Texas companies are rising to the challenges of a severe economic downturn.
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In this report, we define the different types of assessments and the applications of each. We will also highlight three of Profiles International’s flagship assessments – ProfileXT®, Customer Service Profile™ and CheckPoint 360°™, as well as its CheckPoint SkillBuilder Series™.
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To maximize the productivity of your team, you need every player giving their best. When employees are not engaged, missed deadlines and suffering productivity reflects on you as their leader.
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We’ve all been there. After an extensive and thorough search for a line manager, one candidate stands out. You hired the qualified individual, only to find there’s a disconnect with the new employee. This report discusses ways to prevent underperformance.
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We’ve all been there. After an extensive and thorough search for a line manager, one candidate stands out. You hired the qualified individual, only to find there’s a disconnect with the new employee. This report discusses ways to prevent underperformance.
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We’ve all been there. After an extensive and thorough search for a line manager, one candidate stands out. You hired the qualified individual, only to find there’s a disconnect with the new employee. This report discusses ways to prevent underperformance.
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Why do front-line managers fail, and what can be done to avoid failure? We polled our experts to identify the five most common management derailers. This report elaborates on these five issues and offers common sense advice for helping your managers avoid them.
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Like winning coaches, successful managers are both talented and skilled. But if a manager lacks natural talent, his or her odds of success are lower. We indentified and explored eight signs of incompetent managers.
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Times of change present many challenges for organizations, particularly for frontline managers. This fact inspired us to identify six keys to unlocking the potential of frontline managers.
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Businesses should be concerned about promoting the health and safety of their employees. This briefing is designed to help executives understand, recognize and effectively deal with stress in the workplace.
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Examines effective solutions and tools for identifying and preventing workplace fraud, theft and violence.
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The state of the economy is unfortunate, but now more than ever you have the opportunity to optimize your organizational talent. While cost cutting may be inevitable; its important not to fall into some of the common traps that will put you at a disadvantage when the economy turns around.
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The success of your organization is directly affected by the people you employ. Having the right people with the right skills in the right jobs can result in a significant competitive advantage.
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Managing to ensure superb performance from all employees is crucial, especially during times of economic turbulence. Fortunately, this kind of management is more enjoyable than most tasks and results in increased organizational value.
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There are many benefits to understanding engagement levels. Companies with this knowledge have higher retention rates and superior customer service, and they realize increased profitability. Leaders at all levels of these organizations strive to create a work environment that results in highly engaged employees.
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It costs more to acquire a new customer than to maintain an existing customer.We know that there are actions we can take and behaviors we can measure that create long term relationships between sellers and buyers.
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One bad customer experience can cost you that customer for life. This report identifies and explains the core behaviors of your customer-facing employees that make the biggest difference for your business.
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We calculated financial data from over 2,200 publicly traded companies in 203 sub-industry groups. We identified the companies that ranked highest in each category and took a closer look at the practices that enable them to out-produce their peers.
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Profiles Research Institute initiated this study to better understand the factors that drive sales force productivity in large organizations.
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In today’s economy, nearly every organization faces pressure to reduce waste, run at peak efficiency and "do more with less.
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Profiles International researchers conducted a comprehensive review of organizational design and talent management practices to identify over 50 “best practices” in the context of organizational restructuring. From this, we determined our “Top 10" best practices list.
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Strategic workforce planning is a process that ensures your business has the right people in the right jobs at the right time to achieve your expected results. This report explores six steps of strategic workforce planning and offers some advice for achieving results.
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Provides five key lessons to help optimize the upgrading process. This report drills deeper into each lesson to guide you through the talent upgrade process and help you avoid common mistakes.
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Identifies seven major roadblocks to building and managing high-performing teams and suggests ways to avoid such blunders.
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The success of your organization is directly affected by the people you employ. Having the right people with the right skills in the right jobs can result in a significant competitive advantage.
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In a time when creative growth and technological advancements are crucial to business success, companies are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of hiring and retaining talented employees.
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