The Predictive Index
Talent optimization
Learn how to assemble high-performing teams essential to reaching your business goals.
What is talent optimization?
Align your people strategy with your business strategy
Talent optimization is a four-part discipline that details what’s required for aligning your business strategy and your talent strategy, so you can achieve your desired business results.
Most businesses have some form of business strategy. Often it reads in technical or functional terms, and the people element is missing or disconnected. At the end of the day, people drive business forward — so your people strategy can’t be an afterthought.
At the core of talent optimization is the collection, analysis, and application of people data at every level of your organization. We help you assess where your organization is today and build strategies to improve.
The four parts
How talent optimization works
03
Design
Build the teams and culture your business strategy needs to succeed.
04
Diagnose
Use people data to understand what’s driving — or holding back — your business results.
Meet your consultant
Amy Leslie
Certified Talent Optimization Consultant
“Was it me or was it them?
As a leader building and rebuilding teams, I asked myself that question more often than I’d like to admit. The honest answer was usually “both/and.”
Picking the right people and getting the best out of them was the hardest part of my job. When it went wrong, it went terribly wrong. I pushed people to work far outside their thrive zone, which sent me into overdrive, and we all ended up miserable and exhausted.
Talent optimization changed that. It gave me a data-driven way to align business strategy with the people needed to execute it. It showed me that tapping into people’s internal motivation is the key to their happiness and productivity at work. And it brought back my love of leading.
Today, I help leaders find that same clarity so they can hire well, lead with confidence, and watch small changes add up to big results.
— Amy Leslie
What our attendees say
“This is the first session I’ve been to in Kansas City where I really learned useful ways to think about organizational development. I loved the measures of success at each level of talent optimization; it gave me ways to talk with my boss about what we should do next to support our company.”
Shannon S. — Organizational Development Leader, Kansas City
Ready to optimize your talent?
Let’s talk about where your organization is today and where you want it to go.