Testimonials

“ADVISA’s Aszure Grimes led an executive team-building session at Fineline that included utilizing Predictive Index® profiles of key managers. She blew us away with her preparedness, insights, energy, and style. Even our most skeptical managers opened up and were thrilled with the outcomes. Every minute of our two-hour session was valuable. I highly recommend Aszure for your executive team.”

- Jill Wangler, Director of Marketing, Fineline Printing Group, Indianapolis

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“The PI® ‘culture’ is taking hold here at Berghorst. Our Preservation Manager, Director of Operations, and HR Manager have really signed on to the benefits and are busy incorporating it into our procedures and thought processes. Some of the things we’ve used the PI concepts for already are:

• Annual Reviews
• Promotions
• Hiring
• Working with each other!!

We love it! We have all said countless times in the last month that we’re so glad we went ahead with the PI training and implementation. It’s making our business better, and also a better place to work.

Thank you!!

Heather Berghorst
President
Berghorst Enterprises LLC, a regional real-estate field services firm
headquartered in Holland, MI

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“Our organization, like countless others, is facing many challenges. When the way business is being conducted changes, it creates opportunities for employees who are adept at operating in the new way. We feel P.I.® is a valuable tool that has assisted us in planning and managing the activities of our employees to affect change that will ensure our continued success.

“PI allows our managers and supervisors to better understand the complexities of managing people and how employees respond differently to work environment situations. PI also assists our credit union in assessing people skills relative to job skills so that our selection processes are more objective. We are finding that through the use of PI we can better match people with positions.”

Loretta Burd
President
Centra Credit Union, a regional financial institution with 23 offices in central and southern Indiana

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“Clifton Gunderson further invests in our people by providing the Predictive Index (PI)®, a tool that measures the work-related behaviors and motivational needs of people in organizations. The PI® gives CG managers the power and knowledge to best motivate, lead, and position people to achieve goals.

“Through the PI, team members at CG better understand each other and communicate more effectively, thus enhancing the overall office culture. CG has incorporated the PI as a development tool in CG University, Senior Manager Orientation, Mentor Training, Feedback Training, and merger due diligence, and made it a tool in our Performance-based Hiring practices, leadership retreats, and conferences.

“CG also recognizes that the benefits of understanding and using the PI extend beyond recruitment or team-building tools. It can provide insight into motivating our workforce to maximize communications, productivity and profitability.

“Using the PI is another step to successfully completing Project: Life. CG has partnered with Bob Wilson from ADVISA in effectively implementing this tool.”

Lauren Malensek
Chief Human Resource Officer, Priority One
Clifton Gunderson LLP, one of the nation’s largest certified public accouting and consulting firms

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“Having taught Strategic Management at the university level for numerous years I was intrigued by the way ADVISA handle the Strategic Planning Process. Orchestrated by Heather Haas and Todd Gross I found the initiative to be a true process and not just an event. Embodied in the process is a disciplined approach to moving an organizational forward by focusing on a manageable number of priorities. Priorities that found their origin in our vision, mission and business model. I feel confident that we are headed in the right direction by doing the right things. The folks from ADVISA enabled us to develop a sense of organizational clarity we have never experienced before.”

Dan Moore
President/CEO
HomeBank, a regional bank headquartered in Martinsville, IN

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“In June of 2007, we acquired a company and were fortunate enough to get some much needed top talent at the executive level. At the same time we were just starting to really embrace the PI® tool and use it, not only for recruiting purposes, but as a strategic management tool. We had conducted, with the help of John Ranalletta of ADVISA, training workshops to executive staff and our managers. John also facilitated a workshop to implement our processes for strategic planning and goal setting/Key Performance Indicators. We have used ADVISA and the PI tool to help us in our annual talent review sessions as well as for coming up with development action plans based on a person’s motivational drives. We’ve created workshops using the PI tool for team building. Specific to sales, Heather Haas of ADVISA developed and trained our Field Salespeople in Customer-Focused Selling, combining the PI tool along with it.

“I truly believe we would have lost one of our top talents, who is now the Sr. VP of NA Sales & Marketing if it hadn’t been, in part, for this process and tool. It allowed us to recognize what his motivators were. We knew that we had to develop plans around his highest A and B drives, along with his low D. This pointed us in the right direction and we could see from his profile that these were exactly what we needed in the position. It also allowed us consider structuring his position to meet these needs. We couldn’t offer a huge salary and bonus structure based on the business conditions. So, we had to offer him control, with opportunities to do it his way and the ability to lead people on his own terms.”

Debbie Slocum
VP Human Resources
Husqvarna Construction Products, of Olathe, KS, a unit of the world’s largest producer of outdoor power equipment

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“Our story is huge. We have totally embraced the entire PI® system and are using it for hiring, motivational and building upon our employees’ strengths. Also we have not circled the wagons and cut down on training and developing our employees given the tough economy. We have partnered with ADVISA to develop specific training programs for our sales and management groups, using PI to make sure that when we hire we do so intelligently using this tool.”

Steve Chamberlin
VP of NA Sales & Marketing
Husqvarna Construction Products, of Olathe, KS, a unit of the world’s largest producer of outdoor power equipment

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“We have had a lot of good planning sessions but none have been as complete and brought our group together on the same page in the way yours has. The process itself brought our team together in a united vision and at the same time we were able to tie the vision and direction to specific ACTION items to measure. Without this complete approach we would not be making the correct daily decisions we are today. We can feel the momentum building and our vision seems much more manageable. In my few years as President of Mastercraft it is the best thing we have done and we will now incorporate this process into our yearly planning process.”

Vince Hodshire
President
MasterCraft Industries, a leading manufacturer of cleaning equipment located in Newburgh, NY

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“Predictive Index® is a tool that increases our people deployment effectiveness. We are no longer thrashing around in the dark in trying to guess whether a person will succeed in a position based on a resume, past experience, and an interview. Using PI® helps us to quickly get the right person in the right job. When we use PI to evaluate our positions and the incumbents, we are able to quickly determine where we might have mismatch between the person and the job.

Before PI, we could only guess at why a person might be under-performing. Now with our use of PI, we understand how the key elements of the job may be affecting the person filling the job. With PI we are able to move quickly to identify potential under-performance and take specific action to assure consistent results. PI accelerates our ability to effectively deal with the “people issues” of business.

When we use PI to fill open positions, we are able to quantitatively compare the job requirements with an applicant’s profile. When we have the match on qualifications and experience, PI provides the final filter that allows us to select the applicant best suited to perform in the position.

Getting the right people in the right job has always been a very difficult proposition. Before PI if we were successful 25- 40% of the time we thought we were doing very well. Now with our use of PI , we expect that our people success rate should be consistently above 75%. The executive management use of PI has allowed me to understand what each of my staff members needs to be successful. I am able to tailor my management towards actions that are the most effective with each person. PI helps me to understand their individual needs and to work in a manner that dramatically increases their individual effectiveness. I wish I would have known about the PI tool 20 years ago. It probably would have saved me millions of dollars in people mistakes. Based on the tangible results so far, our ROI on the PI investment will be the best investment we have ever made.”

Ron St. Clair
President
Stalcop Metal Forming Specialists, an Indiana division of a global company