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Promana - the basics

Towards a profitable practice

  • 06 February 2024
As a coach, you know that your time is your most valuable asset. You also know that when your clients value your time and expertise, they'll pay for it if they can. But what if you could offer them more than just your time?

Promana's Rule of Six

  • 04 December 2022
Starting a new job is an important, exciting and nerve-wracking experience. But it's also a time of mutual evaluation that employers don't always take into account.

The picture only you can paint

  • 04 August 2021
Promana’s unique behavioural assessments generate easy-to-understand descriptions of people's observable actions and reactions. These are not tests and there are no wrong answers.

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Promana Essentials

Circadian Search is here

  • 20 February 2024
We're proud to announce the latest innovation from Promana People. Read on to discover what Circadian Search is, how it will add relevance to our professional members, and how that could benefit you, as a member.

Building Loyalty in the Age of Free Will

  • 09 December 2022
Throughout history, autocratic leaders have demanded unquestioning personal loyalty. Times have changed, however. Today, with educated populations, political activism and economic freedom, people choose when, where and with whom they give their allegiance.

Reasoning, logic, and intuition: The keys to effective decision-making

  • 09 December 2022
Decision-making is an essential part of our daily lives. From deciding what to eat for breakfast to making important business decisions, the choices we make have a significant impact on our lives. Understanding the different decision-making processes can help us make better choices and improve overall decision-making skills.

Revolutionising outreach for coaches

  • 08 December 2022
Outreach marketing is a strategic approach to building relationships with potential customers or partners by actively reaching out to them. Now, coaches can access these vital business tools - tailored for the industry.

On validity, behaviour and personality

  • 11 July 2022
Validity is the extent to which the proposed applications of an evaluation correspond with its interpreted results. Here, we briefly explore the five types of validity and how they apply to Promana's assessment suite, in the context of behaviour vs personality.

Origins

A short history of Promana's Team Roles

  • 13 July 2022
From the first scholarly analyses of Team Roles just 80 or so years ago, to our own entry into the field roughly 40 years later, we take you on a brief journey into the past as we examine the roots of this fascinating field of study.

Promana's roots

  • 12 November 2021
From active service, to senior HR roles with the Employers’ Federation, to the International Labour Organisation, the Institute of Management, and major firms, one man's journey led to the formation of a thriving central city management consulting practice. Along the way, he laid the groundwork for the psychometric tools offered by today's Promana People.

Matching activities to vocations

  • 09 November 2021
Falling into the occupational interests class of assessments, Activity Interests was the first of the twelve assessments currently offered by Promana.

Conversations

Are you a hackable human?

The roots of behaviour modification can be traced to the theory of behaviourism, about 100 years ago. And a direct line can drawn to connect those early explorations with tools and techniques employed by various actors (think tech and state) who learned how to, quite literally, hack us.

Is AI coming for your job? Part 4: The HR Department

In previous posts, I've talked about how AI is impacting recruiting, organisational development, and personal branding. In this, the fourth in my six-part series, I'm looking at ways in which AI could be transformative for the HR department.

Is AI coming for your job? Part 2: Organisational Development

Organisational development (OD) is about improving an organisation's efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability to change. As with many aspects of the modern workplace, AI has the potential to play a significant role in OD. Read on as I explore some of the ways AI could benefit OD, as well as ethical concerns that need to be addressed.

Enterprise use cases

Promana and behaviour modelling

  • 27 August 2021
Managers and team leaders who openly encourage and shape individual and team behaviours are more able and more likely to deliver optimum all round performance. Behaviour Modelling with Promana enables you to bring measurable, participative change to your enterprise.

Building more effective teams

  • 27 August 2021
What happens – or doesn't happen – within any group or team is vital to its success. The behaviours of its members need to satisfy certain specific conditions for any group or team to be truly effective.

Coaching? Discover needs and select pathways

  • 27 August 2021
Coaching and facilitation are processes requiring interaction, often one-on-one, where the coach/facilitator enables the other person to work their way through a situation and arrive at their own conclusion, not the coach’s.

Improve decision-making

  • 27 August 2021
Promana delivers the kind high-quality, objective, reliable and consistent information needed for making the kinds of quality managerial and personal decisions that directly affect people - be that individually or in groups.