Intrinsic Thinkers are typically both risk takers and change oriented. By making sure that recruiting solutions take this into account, it is possible to improve employee performance management best practices and build effective employee retention programs. In my blog posts about thinking styles, I have described employees with the intrinsic style of thinking as creative…
As mentioned in my last blog post, Extrinsic Thinkers are both risk averse and change resistant. This needs to be taken into account in recruiting solutions as part of an effective employee retention program. In previous blog posts, I have also described employees with this style of thinking as having strong listening skills and individuals who…
So far, in our blog post series about how employees’ thinking styles affect job performance, we have described Intrinsic Thinkers as innovative, poor listeners who love change and Extrinsic Thinkers as strong listeners who solve problems in collaboration with others and who tend to be change resistant. We have also referred to performance evaluation examples…
Without doubt, thinking styles influence employee performance. In this series of blog posts about the strengths and weaknesses of Intrinsic Thinkers and Extrinsic Thinkers, I have explained how studies of performance appraisal data collected through Talent Chaser have shown that Intrinsic Thinkers are innovative people, but frequently poor listeners and that, as a consequence, they…
In one of my previous blog posts, I introduced you to the concept of the Intrinsic Thinker and indicated that individuals with this style of thinking are typically very creative individuals, but poor listeners. In today’s blog post, I’m going to flesh out the typical Intrinsic Thinker profile in more detail. As I do this,…
During my development of the Talent Chaser software, I discovered two predominant styles of thinking when I replaced the personality test with the performance profile questionnaire: the Intrinsic Thinker and the Extrinsic Thinker. It turns out that when with evidence-based recruitment these two styles of thinking are properly taken into account in the management of…
If you’ve read my blog post titled “How Thinking Styles Impact Employee Retention Rates“, then you already know how the development of our evidence-based recruitment and management development software solution Talent Chaser has provided us with a great deal of data and insight into the reasons and solutions for high employee turnover. It has become clear that employee…
In some of my previous blog posts about employee retention, I described how employee turnover rates have become pervasive and extremely damaging to both the bottom-line and service quality of organizations. I described how by creating a software solution with performance profiling and performance appraisal integrated into an adaptive system, it has proved possible to…
