3 Practical Ways To Use Your Predictive Index Results in Your New Role

Congratulations on your new role!

Starting a new role can be both exciting and nerve-wracking because just about everything in your day-to-day life has changed – especially with a new set of tricky humans who are important to understand. But you know what remains the same? MindWire in your corner. 

Imagine if you had help to build trust and understand the new tricky humans you work with.

Because you’ve attended a MindWire workshop, you can leverage MindWire to help you build trust and understand your new set of tricky humans. At no charge or obligation.

Many learners and former clients have taken up the opportunity to set off in the new role in a different way—helping your new boss, peers, and team understand the value you bring, feel confident and trusting of your choices, and make your transition smoother. To do so, they’ve used their own Predictive Index behavioral assessment results.

So, we’re here to get you some quick wins straight out the “onboarding” gate. 

Here are just a few ways you can call on MindWire to help you adjust in your new role:

1. Understanding your Predictive Index results 
2. Enhancing team dynamics
3. Conducting a new leader assimilation

Understanding Your Predictive Index Results

Boosting Self-Awareness

Understanding yourself is key in any new role. When you’re self-aware, you can recognize your strengths and weaknesses, understand how your emotions impact your behavior, and manage those elements effectively. Research shows that self-aware leaders are more effective and inspire their teams more successfully. (Yep, it’s that simple.)

Why Self-Awareness Matters

While the end goal is to achieve greater impact, self-awareness also allows you to:

• Articulate your strengths. Describe what makes you, YOU! Identify your values, motivations, emotions, and how they influence your actions in order to effectively understand and communicate the unique and valuable way you approach your work.
• Increase your empathy. Appreciate diverse viewpoints and increase your impact when working with others.
• Make Smarter Decisions. Use your people-data insights to make informed choices, like asking someone on your team who has an opposite behavioral style than you to help you identify project or process gaps.
• Communicate Better. Motivate and earn the trust and respect of your colleagues.

The team at MindWire is a secret weapon for you. Use us to walk you through your PI Behavioral assessment results, in depth. Even if you’ve had a readback before, let’s go over your report again, in light of your new position. We’ll help you harness your strengths in your new role and provide insights on how to improve your self-awareness.

Enhancing Team Dynamics

Getting to Know Your Team

Starting fresh with a new team can feel like reading hieroglyphics or, perhaps, tea leaves. Work with MindWire to build a free team dynamics session to learn more about how to motivate your team, modify communication styles, and get dos and don’ts right from the start .

Key Elements of Team Dynamics

Here are three key steps to success with MindWire in your corner: 

1. 1:1 as the Leader: Have a MindWire expert walk you through your Predictive Index (PI) Behavioral Assessment, through a leadership perspective.
2. Direct Report Analysis: Meet with MindWire to discuss the behaviors and motivations of each person on your team. This will help you understand their strengths and how to best communicate with each team member.
3. Team Overview: Review a Team Analytics dashboard with MindWire to identify the strengths and gaps within your team and what they might need from you to excel.

Conducting a New Leader Assimilation

Stepping into a new role and leading a new team can be tricky. MindWire’s New Assimilation process will help you transition smoothly and become that once-in-a-lifetime leader. 

The New Leader Assimilation Process

Here’s a quick overview of the process to get your wheels turning:

Pre-Work Before the New Leader Assimilation Session

You’ll have a 1:1 session with a MindWire workforce analytics expert. They’ll give you a brief communication template to share with your team about the session goals, process, questions, and timeline. 

Conducting the Session

During the session, your MindWire expert will gather your direct reports in one group, posing questions and capturing feedback about what they need from their leader. They’ll ask a series of strategic questions to get the best and most actionable intel possible.

Post-Session Follow-Up

After the session, you’ll review the findings from the session privately with the facilitator and review the behavioral assessment results of each participant. You’ll then receive a document that will capture key learnings, takeaways, and action items so you can pursue quick wins.

Benefits of the New Leader Assimilation

• Go faster, sooner: There’s a popular business phrase for new teams – forming, storming, norming, performing. Using the New Leader Assimilation process, you’ll be able to zoom past the first two stages in two months instead of two years, enabling you to prove you’re a leader and hire who knows what to do, quickly.
• Build trust: Establish trust and credibility with your team in early days. In our experience, new team members respond positively to their new leader who can recognize and name their strengths—proving as a boss, you understand them.
• Set clear goals: Define clear objectives and expectations for the way you and your team will work together and the critical role each individual will play.
• Create a common language: Increase communication and use a new language together, which will lay the foundation for collaboration and having a world-class team.

Why MindWire Supports People in New Roles

Genuine Support Without Gimmicks

Why do we offer all this awesomeness? Your job may have changed, but MindWire’s commitment to you hasn’t. We genuinely want to help. No sales pitches, no gimmicks, no costs—just good, old-fashioned support. 

After all, you’ve done the hard work of finding the next best work environment for you—we want you to succeed and love your decision to move into the organization you chose.

Most former learners who transition in a new role are shocked we’d offer this service (we’re the anti-consultants, after all). But it’s true. When you take up this opportunity, you’ll be able to navigate the intricacies that come with a new role with speed and excellence. Plus, you’ll look like the all star that you are.

We’re just here to make you look good (and feel even better). MindWire has your back, now and always. Let’s make your new role a resounding success.