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Are you a hackable human?
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Essentials

Introducing the Action Process

We all know it. Success isn't just a destination; it's a journey marked by strategic decisions and supported by effective planning. That journey will require a good roadmap, where every turn and decision shapes the path forward.

Circadian Search

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

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

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.

Revolutionary outreach tools for coaches

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.

Validity

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.

Transactional Analysis (TA)

Elements of Transactional Analysis (TA) were incorporated into Promana’s assessments from the outset. These elements were adapted from TA’s time structuring, recognition strokes and ego states, and are embedded in three of our assessments: Time Actions, Activation, and Transactions.

12 team roles

Whether by leading, following, coming up with fresh ideas or just getting on with the job, people contribute to groups through specific behaviours. In this post we discuss inputs from the twelve most pivotal team roles.

Enterprise Use Cases

Tune the work environment

Should the internal environment be warm, supportive and encouraging? Or should it be stimulating, potentially hazardous and rewarding only to those who contribute? The answers to these questions and others like them must come from within the organisation itself.

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 the HR team?

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 Personal Branding jobs?

It's time we explored the impact of AI on personal branding. Will AI and services like ChatGPT revolutionise the way people build personal brands, or will it ultimately lead to a loss of authenticity and creativity? Let's find out!

Is AI coming for 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.

Is AI coming for your recruiting job?

Journey with me as we delve into the world of recruiting and how AI is already disrupting the traditional role of recruitment firms. Let's explore the potential benefits and drawbacks of using AI in the recruiting process.

Six effective ways to have that difficult conversation at work

Employees want more feedback. Gen Y employees, in particular, want constant feedback. Managers, however, are often reluctant to give feedback if they fear that what starts as a rational conversation may degenerate into an emotional one. Even managers trained in coaching have admitted to being reluctant to tackle employees seen as abrasive or aggressive.

How showing your emotions at work can make you a better leader

A staggering 20% of senior management positions remain empty in the NHS – a figure that goes up to 37% in mental health. As demand for health and social care services go up in a context of recession and an ageing population, it appears that nobody wants to take the lead when it comes to jobs in health and social care.

Four key rules for successful leadership

The disruption and devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. Not only has it taken the lives of more than 5 million people around the world, it has also seriously wounded the global economy.

COVID has increased anxiety and depression rates a...

Before COVID, university and vocational education students were at high risk of developing mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety. This is because they already experience much higher levels of psychological distress than the general population.

Job seeking is the religious pilgrimage of the 21st century

“It’s the journey, not the destination” seems like a modern proverb, because it emphasises experiences over results and promises personal transformation. However, millennia ago, theologians like Saint Augustine described life itself as a pilgrimage through the world, returning to God by purifying the self.

Basics

Rule of six

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

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.

Personal Use Cases

Comparing disciplines - OB vs OD

Organisational behavior and organisational development are disciplines within the field of management. Both involve the study of human behavior within organisations, and both aim to improve the functioning and performance of organisations. Let's dive into some key similarities and differences.

Behaviour modelling

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.

Build better teams

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.

Learn, train, develop

One of the interesting observations made by Promana users is that managers can tend to have only a moderate interest in their own development, and the development of their teams.

Improve decision-making

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.

Organisational Intervention

Promana's assessments provide objective definition, revealing hidden influences and identifying potential sticking points. More than that, it shows how and where to intervene.

Discover needs, select programs

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.

Succession & Other Planning

Demand for excellent people is always high but the supply, unfortunately, always falls well short of demand. The naturally excellent sales person, manager, accountant and so on, is already working for someone else – perhaps in his or her own business.

Origins

Team Roles - history

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.

Tracing the roots of Promana Assessments

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.