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Welcome to Growth Resources

The resources on this website offer detailed background and scientific information on GRI's research framework, assessment techniques, and the adaptive profiles. They contribute to a larger effort to enhance individual and organizational performance by using more objective data on people.

We hope the resources answer your questions; however, they are more academic than practical and cannot provide the hands-on experience needed to learn and apply the adaptive profiles. For effective learning, a masterclass experience facilitated by experts is essential. Similar to learning a new sport or musical instrument, you will need real-world practice to challenge the techniques you already use and to deepen your understanding of people, their teams, and their companies through the profiles.

The masterclass will help you learn and apply your new knowledge at the same time. Contact Growth Resources or one of its affiliates to learn more about GRI's masterclass, management tools, and platform.

Performance Revisited

What organizational performance means
Review of various performance approaches
How performance and non-performance are assessed with adaptive profiles
Definition of an organization's strategic and social performance
Managing the organization's performance

From Parallel to Statistics-Based Techniques

The nature and role of assessment techniques in organizations
Standards for comparing techniques redefined
Utility of assessment techniques redefined
Assessment techniques components under scrutiny
What adaptive profiles tell

What Keeps Them Apart

The three models explained
Getting the measures
How we represent and use the measures
Adaptation as a key differentiator
The distinct benefits of the factor model

Social Behavior and More

The many characteristics we use when assessing people
The big 7 of personality
Details on Social performance, values, and intelligence
Techniques used to assess individual characteristics
Classification of techniques

Far-Reaching Applications

Practical and abstract uses of techniques and their various effects
Use in organizational development, leadership, management, and recruitment
Use in coaching, clinical settings, and for medium effect
Theoretical use in self- and social-awareness, and learning
Pragmatic use of assessments; their language and signs

The Power of Signs

Signs for understanding people and their organizations
Fundamentals of semiotics
Adaptive profiles as signs and part of a broader picture
Signs produced by assessment techniques
Developing new, effective meanings of signs

General Framework

Objectives and use of the framework
Framework's antecedent, independent, and dependent variables
Framework development over its three steps
How to test the framework
Benchmarking assessment techniques

Quick Links

Performance - Individual Characteristics and Assessment Techniques - Assessment Tools - Articles - Notes - Rowing Study W U25 2016

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 =Welcome to Growth Resources=
-The resources accessible from this page are shared by the Growth Resources Institute to help you continue to develop individual and organizational performance by deepening your understanding of the adaptive profiles and how they relate to other knowledge in our field.
+[[File:GRI Logo_Framed.png|right|220px]]
+The resources on this website offer detailed background and scientific information on GRI's research framework, assessment techniques, and the adaptive profiles. They contribute to a larger effort to enhance individual and organizational performance by using more objective data on people.
-The content is more theoretical and technical than practical. Using GRI's adaptive profiles and methods requires learning that starts with understanding your own profile and what you can do with it, most often in a business context with a leadership role. The experience provided by GRI's masterclass is central to learning and applying adaptive profiles in their many applications.
+We hope the resources answer your questions; however, they are more academic than practical and cannot provide the hands-on experience needed to learn and apply the adaptive profiles. For effective learning, a masterclass experience facilitated by experts is essential. Similar to learning a new sport or musical instrument, you will need real-world practice to challenge the techniques you already use and to deepen your understanding of people, their teams, and their companies through the profiles.
-Like learning a new instrument, sport, or cooking, and even more so when learning about people, including their relationships and organizations, you'll need a minimum of time to practice in real situations and with people you think you already know well.
+The masterclass will help you learn and apply your new knowledge at the same time. Contact Growth Resources or one of its affiliates to learn more about GRI's masterclass, management tools, and platform.
-More than just learning, GRI offers you the opportunity to relearn much about people that seems immediate, obvious, but indeed will challenge your perceptions, intuition, and knowledge you already built and trust. Contact Growth Resources or one of its affiliates if you would like to learn GRI tools and methods.
-=[[Performance_Models | Performance]]=
+=[[Performance_Models | Performance Revisited]]=
-[[File:Performance_Models.png|right|200px]]
+[[File:Home_Performance.png|right|230px]]
-* What organization performance means and how to manage it.
+* What organizational performance means
-* Review of various performance approaches.
+* Review of various performance approaches
-* How performance and non-performance are assessed with adaptive profiles.
+* How performance and non-performance are assessed with adaptive profiles
-* Definition of an organization's strategic and social performance.
+* Definition of an organization's strategic and social performance
+* Managing the organization's performance
-=[[Assessment_Techniques | Assessment Techniques]]=
+=[[Assessment_Techniques | From Parallel to Statistics-Based Techniques]]=
-[[File:Assessment Engine.png|right|200px]]
+[[File:Assessment Techniques.png|right|230px]]
-* The nature and role of assessment techniques in organizations.
+* The nature and role of assessment techniques in organizations
 * Standards for comparing techniques redefined
 * Utility of assessment techniques redefined
 * Assessment techniques components under scrutiny
-* What adaptive profiles tell.
+* What adaptive profiles tell
-=Individual Characteristics=
+=[[What_Keeps_Them_Apart | What Keeps Them Apart]]=
-[[File:Patchwork_Performance.png|right|120px]]
+[[File:Home_What_Keeps_Them_Apart.png|right|230px]]
-* Characteristics and how we assess them.
+* The three models explained
-* The big 7 with social behavior, values, and intelligence being detailed
+* Getting the measures
-* The many more characteristics we use to assess people. A classification.
+* How we represent and use the measures
+* Adaptation as a key differentiator
+* The distinct benefits of the factor model
-=The Power of Signs=
+=[[ Individual_Characteristics | Social Behavior and More]]=
-[[File:Adaptive Profile_Semiotic.png|right|150px]]
+[[File:Home_Individual Characteristics.png|right|230px]]
-* Understanding of people and their organizations with symbolic representations.
+* The many characteristics we use when assessing people
-* Not just a matter of building a language but also of symbols that can be part of a broader picture.
+* The big 7 of personality
-* Guiding principles and thinking straight inductively and deductively about people and their organization.
+* Details on Social performance, values, and intelligence
+* Techniques used to assess individual characteristics
+* Classification of techniques
-=GRI Research Framework=
+=[[Assessments_Potential_Uses | Far-Reaching Applications]]=
-[[File:GRI Model_detailed.png|right|150px]]
+[[File:Home_Potential Uses.png|right|230px]]
-* Framework initial steps and evolutions over the years.
+* Practical and abstract uses of techniques and their various effects
-* Antecedent, independent, and dependent variables
+* Use in organizational development, leadership, management, and recruitment
-* Construction of the model. Theories behind the model.
+* Use in coaching, clinical settings, and for medium effect
-* Testing the framework, benchmarking techniques, and accelerating growing performance.
+* Theoretical use in self- and social-awareness, and learning
+* Pragmatic use of assessments; their language and signs
+=[[ Language_and_Signs | The Power of Signs]]=
+[[File:Home_The Power of Signs.png|right|230px]]
+* Signs for understanding people and their organizations
+* Fundamentals of semiotics
+* Adaptive profiles as signs and part of a broader picture
+* Signs produced by assessment techniques
+* Developing new, effective meanings of signs
-===Quick Links===
+=[[ General_Framework | General Framework]]=
-[https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Performance Performance] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Assessment Individual Characteristics and Assessment Techniques] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Personality_Assessment Assessment Tools] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Articles Articles] and [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Notes Notes] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Row_Results Rowing Study W U25 2016]
+[[File:GRI Research Framework.png|right|230px]]
+* Objectives and use of the framework
+* Framework's antecedent, independent, and dependent variables
+* Framework development over its three steps
+* How to test the framework
+* Benchmarking assessment techniques
+'''Quick Links'''
+[https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Performance Performance] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Assessment Individual Characteristics and Assessment Techniques] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Personality_Assessment Assessment Tools] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Articles Articles] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Category:Notes Notes] - [https://wiki.gri.co/index.php/Row_Results Rowing Study W U25 2016]
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