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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 Models Revisited

• What individual and organizational performance mean
• Review of various performance models
• Organization's well-being (social) performance
• Organization's effective (strategic) performance
• Managing performance

Use of Tools and Concepts

• Practical and abstract use of tools and the concepts they measure
• 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

Individual Characteristics

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

The Three Categories of Tools

• The three categories explained
• How measures are represented and used
• Getting the measures
• Intensity and adaptation measured
• Benefits of the factor-based model

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

GRI 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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Performance Articles - Individuals' Assessment Articles - Assessment Tools Articles - General Framework Articles - Rowing Study Women 8+ U23 2016 - All Articles - All Notes

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