Behavioral Assessment:
Unlock the Science of Success
Understand What Drives Your People. Build Teams That Thrive.
Why Understanding Behavior is Critical for Success
Hiring and managing people without understanding their natural drives is like trying to assemble a puzzle without knowing what the picture looks like.
Here’s why so many businesses struggle:
1. Assumptions Lead to Mismatches
Business leaders often rely on intuition or incomplete information when evaluating candidates or managing employees. This leads to costly mis-hires, disengagement, and turnover.
2. Surface-Level Insights Aren’t Enough
Resumes and interviews tell you about skills and experience—but they don’t reveal how someone will behave in the workplace.
3. Teams Succeed When Drives Align
High-performing teams are built when individual behaviors align with the role’s demands and team dynamics.
The good news? The PI Behavioral Assessment gives you a clear window into what makes people tick—so you can make decisions with confidence.
How the
PI Behavioral Assessment Works
The Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment is a simple yet powerful tool designed to measure a person’s natural drives and needs. These insights help you understand how someone will behave at work—and why.
Why It Works:
Measures four key behavioral drives that shape workplace behavior:
The drive to take charge, influence others, and control outcomes.
The drive for connection, collaboration, and social interaction.
The drive for stability, consistency, and steady progress over time.
The drive to follow rules, structure, and established processes.
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Provides actionable insights into how candidates will fit into your role and culture.
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Takes less than 6 minutes but delivers insights that last a lifetime.
This isn’t just another personality test—it’s a scientifically validated tool trusted by thousands of businesses worldwide for over 65 years.
What If You Could Predict How Someone Will Behave At Work, Before They Even Start?
With the Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment, you can. This scientifically validated tool provides deep insights into what drives your candidates and employees, empowering you to make smarter hiring decisions, design high-performing teams, and manage with precision.
But here’s the key: this tool is just one step in a proven process. At Straightline Consulting Group, we don’t just hand you tools—we guide you in using them effectively as part of a broader strategy to optimize your people and your business.
How We Use This Tool in Our Straightline Hiring Framework
The PI Behavioral Assessment is one of the most powerful tools we use in our Straightline Hiring Framework. It provides an "X-ray" of how candidates are naturally hardwired—their innate drives, needs, and tendencies.
When combined with other steps in our process, like scientifically creating a customized Job Target for each role, this tool allows us to match candidates to roles with deadly accuracy. Here’s how it fits into our approach:
1. Understand How Candidates Are Hardwired
Using the PI Behavioral Assessment, we uncover each candidate’s natural behaviors in the workplace. This includes their drives, needs, and tendencies—providing deep insights into how they operate and what motivates them.
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2. Match Candidates to Roles Tailored to Your Company
Every role is unique, even within similar industries or job titles. That’s why we create a scientifically validated Job Target specifically for your company and the exact demands of the role. By comparing each candidate’s behavioral data to this customized Job Target, we can objectively determine how well they align with what the role requires, ensuring you hire people who are naturally hardwired for success.
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3. Optimize Team Dynamics and Management
Beyond hiring, these insights help us design high-performing teams where individual strengths complement one another. Managers can also use this data to tailor their leadership approach to each employee’s natural drives, boosting engagement, productivity, and retention.
This tool isn’t just about understanding candidates—it’s about creating alignment between people and roles so your business can thrive.
Why Choose the PI Behavioral Assessment?
The PI Behavioral Assessment is designed to make hiring smarter, faster, and easier—without sacrificing accuracy or fairness. It’s a scientifically validated tool that helps you understand how candidates are naturally hardwired to behave in the workplace, giving you the confidence to make better decisions at every step of your hiring process.
Here’s why businesses trust the PI Behavioral Assessment to drive success:
1. Fast and Easy to Use
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Takes less than 6 minutes to complete—making it simple for candidates and efficient for your team.
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Provides clear, easy-to-interpret results that anyone can understand—no advanced technical knowledge required.
2. Scientifically Validated and Proven Accurate
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Backed by over 65 years of research and 400+ validation studies across industries and roles.
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Certified by the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA), meeting global standards for validity, reliability, and fairness.
3. Fair and EEOC-Compliant
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Built with fairness at its core; rigorously tested to ensure it’s free from bias across age, gender, and other populations.
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Fully compliant with EEOC guidelines—providing peace of mind for companies concerned about legal risks when using hiring tools.
4. Improves Hiring Outcomes
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Helps you identify candidates who are naturally aligned with your role’s demands—reducing costly mis-hires.
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Its simplicity encourages more applicants to complete the process—giving you a larger talent pool to choose from.
What This Means for You:
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Save time by identifying top candidates quickly.
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Reduce mis-hires by relying on data-driven insights instead of guesswork.
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Gain confidence knowing your hiring process is fair, compliant, and scientifically validated.
This isn’t just another assessment—it’s a smarter way to hire, manage, and build teams that thrive.
