The Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment™
What Is the Behavioural Assessment™ by The Predective Index?
The PI Behavioural Assessment™ is a science-backed tool that helps you understand how someone is likely to behave at work.
It takes six minutes to complete and measures four key workplace drives. These include dominance, extraversion, patience, and formality. Together, they reveal how a person communicates, makes decisions, solves problems, and responds to pressure.
The assessment is not a personality quiz. It is built for business and designed to improve hiring, onboarding, management, and team performance.
You can use it to compare candidates against a role, understand how people work best, and make data-driven decisions you can stand by.
Why are more leaders measuring behaviour
Leaders are under growing pressure to deliver results through people, yet most hiring decisions still rely on experience and instinct. Measuring behaviour changes that. It gives leaders the evidence to understand how someone will perform, adapt, and lead before making a commitment.
The PI Behavioural Assessment™ turns this insight into action. It shows how people work best, how they fit within a team, and where they will add the most value. Every project follows our Recruitment Optimisation Framework with The Predictive Index®, aligning behavioural data with business goals so decisions drive measurable outcomes.
Those hiring who measure behaviour gain a clear advantage. They move faster, make stronger decisions, and build teams that perform consistently.
What the PI Behavioural Assessment™ Measures
The PI Behavioural Assessment™ measures four key drives that shape how someone behaves at work. Each drive influences how a person communicates, makes decisions, responds to pressure, and interacts with others.
Every person has a unique combination of these drives.
The assessment turns that information into a behavioural pattern you can use to understand how someone works best and where they may face challenges.
The drive to influence people and take control of situations. Someone with a high drive for Dominance often takes charge in meetings, makes quick decisions, and pushes projects forward when others hesitate.
The drive for social interaction and connection. A highly extraverted employee builds relationships easily, keeps communication flowing across teams, and energises group discussions. Patience
The drive for consistency, stability, and pace. A person with strong Patience thrives in steady routines, manages repetitive tasks reliably, and helps teams stay calm under pressure.
The drive to follow rules, structure, and detail. Someone with high Formality focuses on accuracy, checks details before acting, and ensures processes are followed correctly every time.
How The PI Behavioral Assessment™ works
The PI Behavioural Assessment™ takes six minutes to complete and provides leaders with measurable insight into how people approach their work. It can be sent to candidates at any stage of recruitment and integrates easily into existing hiring processes.
Participants choose adjectives that describe themselves and how others expect them to behave at work. The responses are analysed to create a behavioural pattern that shows how the person leads, communicates, and delivers results.
Leaders can then view these results against a Job Target created by the PI Job Assessment™. This comparison shows how closely each candidate aligns with the behavioural demands of the role.
The assessment has been validated through more than five hundred studies and is available in over sixty languages. With more than thirty million assessments completed worldwide, it remains one of the most trusted measures of workplace behaviour available today.
Send a secure link to the candidate or team member. They complete the assessment online in about six minutes. There is no time limit and no right or wrong answer.
The system generates a behavioural pattern based on four key workplace drives: dominance, extraversion, patience, and formality. The results are shown in a clear visual format that explains how the person naturally works and communicates.
Compare each person’s results to the Job Target. See alignment and potential gaps at a glance to understand where someone will thrive and where support may be needed. Ask better interview questions based on their behavioural fit to focus conversations on what matters most.
Use the results beyond hiring. Improve onboarding through behavioural understanding, support managers in how they lead each person, and strengthen collaboration across teams.
What does The Behavioral Assessment™ produce
The PI Behavioural Assessment™ produces measurable insight into how people think, work, and lead. The results help leaders understand where someone will perform best, how they will collaborate, and what support they need to deliver results.
A visual summary showing how a person naturally behaves at work. It highlights their likely approach to communication, decision-making, and pace of work, helping leaders see how they will fit within the demands of the role.
Each person is grouped into one of seventeen reference profiles that describe common working styles and leadership tendencies. This gives leaders a fast, consistent way to understand behaviour across a team or department.
When used with the PI Job Assessment™, leaders can compare each person’s behavioural pattern to the benchmark for the role. This shows how closely someone matches the demands of the position and where they may need support.
Leaders receive built-in interview guides and management strategies based on each person’s behavioural profile. These tools help structure conversations, improve onboarding, and guide managers on how to lead more effectively.
How we help you
We take time to understand your business, team dynamics, and what success looks like.
We walk you through The Predictive Index ® and give you access to the behavioural assessment.
You receive a clear plan, with the right tools and support to make it work.
Trusted by leaders wordwide
10,000 organisations across 90 countries, available in more than 70 languages, with over 38 million assessments completed.
What leaders can expect with the PI Behavioural Assessment™
When leaders measure behaviour, they make decisions based on evidence that predicts performance. The results are measurable and consistent across every stage of the hiring process.
Interviews focus on what drives performance, not on guesswork. Leaders agree on behavioural fit early, reducing time spent debating the right choice.
Decisions guided by behavioural data create hires who perform sooner, collaborate better, and stay longer, increasing the return on every recruitment investment.
When people work in roles that match their natural drives, they stay engaged and deliver stronger results. Leaders build teams that are stable, productive, and aligned to business goals.
Working together
Every partnership begins with a conversation. We take time to understand your hiring goals, the behaviours your teams need to succeed, and the challenges that slow progress today.
From there, we show how the PI Behavioural Assessment™ fits within your recruitment process and how it strengthens decision-making across every level of the business. You’ll see how it helps your leaders make faster, fairer, and more informed decisions that drive results.
Our support doesn’t stop at the assessment. We help you interpret the data, apply it across teams, and use it to build a hiring system that keeps performance strong long after each hire.
