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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.

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.

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.

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

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-The resources accessible from this page provide detailed background and scientific information on GRI's adaptive profiles and their use.
+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.
-GRI is about making a difference in people's performance and their organizations, not about understanding tools and techniques in the abstract. Like learning a new sport or musical instrument, and even more so with people, you need practical situations to compare what you already know with what GRI can tell, and be more effective.
+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 present content obviously cannot provide this practical experience. It's intellectual rather than practical, although we hope it will help answer the questions you may have. If you are interested and have the skills, you are welcome to participate in its construction. Please reach out if this is the case. The experience provided by our masterclass is central to GRI's learning: it guides you in applying your new knowledge as you learn. Contact Growth Resources or one of its affiliates to know more about GRI's masterclass, management tools, and platform.
+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.
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+* 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.
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-[[File:Home_Individual Characteristics.png|right|230px]]
+[[File:Home_Potential Uses.png|right|230px]]
-* How we assess individual characteristics.
+* Practical and abstract uses of techniques and their various effects.
-* Benefits of assessing individual characteristics with techniques.
+* Use in organizational development, leadership, management, and recruitment.
-* The big 7 of personality.
+* Use in coaching, clinical settings, and for medium effect.
-* Details on Social performance, values, and intelligence.
+* Theoretical use in self- and social-awareness, and learning.
-* The many characteristics we use when assessing people.
+* Pragmatic use of assessments; their language and signs.
 =[[ Language_and_Signs | The Power of Signs]]=
 [[File:Home_The Power of Signs.png|right|230px]]
-* Understanding people and their organizations with signs.
+* Signs for understanding people and their organizations.
 * Fundamentals of semiotics.
-* Signs are part of a broader picture.
+* Adaptive profiles as signs and part of a broader picture.
 * Signs produced by assessment techniques.
-* Developing new effective meanings on signs.
+* Developing new, effective meanings of signs.
 =[[ General_Framework | General Framework]]=
 [[File:GRI Research Framework.png|right|230px]]
-* Framework progress over its three steps.
+* Objectives and use of the framework
-* Construction of the framework.
+* Framework's antecedent, independent, and dependent variables
-* Theories behind the framework.
+* Framework development over its three steps
-* Antecedent, independent, and dependent variables.
+* How to test the framework
-* Testing of the framework, benchmarking assessment techniques.
+* Benchmarking assessment techniques