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🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Sports teams have been using data to select new team members for decades behind. Today Mike Zani talks about how you can use personality based data to hire, manage and maybe even parent better.
MIKE ZANI is the CEO of The Predictive Index, a talent optimization platform designed to help businesses create high-performing teams and culture and make more objective hiring decisions. Zani is also an avid sailor and coached the 1996 US Olympic Team. His new book is called “The Science of Dream Teams.”
“The Science of Dream Teams.” https://dreamteams.io/
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0:00.0 | Now you're not going to give a predictive index test to the opposite sacks right and say well, but you probably should. |
0:08.0 | The founder of Samuel Adams, Boston Beerworks, a Boston Beer Company. |
0:12.8 | After the first date was going well, he goes, |
0:15.4 | would you mind taking this assessment? |
0:18.1 | And he gave the behavioral assessment, |
0:21.6 | the PII behavioral assessment to his now wife. |
0:24.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe Descenta, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
0:31.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
0:37.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on |
0:41.9 | the Spartan up podcast to get over |
0:43.9 | obstacles in your mind. Professional sports teams have been using data to |
0:49.2 | select team members for decades. Today Mike Zani talks about how you can use personality-based data to |
0:54.8 | hire, manage, and maybe even parent better. |
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1:21.0 | Joe Descenta here, founder and CEO of Spartan where we attempt we attempt to rip you off the |
1:28.1 | couch get you away from Netflix and I don't know get you moving so I've got Mike Zani on the phone CEO |
1:35.0 | predictive index predictive index if you don't know it you've clearly been on the |
1:39.0 | couch too long there's a seven-67 year old company right 67 year old company, right, 67 years old. |
1:44.0 | And we use them at Spartan and what they do, if you haven't heard from, |
1:49.0 | is they help figure out your personality type and traits and where your weaknesses are, where your strengths are, and how you can better collaborate with your team. |
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