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"Cognitive Neuroscience, with its concern about perception, action, memory, language and selective attention, will increasingly come to represent the central focus of all Neurosciences in the 21st Century "
Dr Eric Kandel
Director of Columbia University’s Centre for Neurobiology and Behaviour
Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine 2000

PRISM Personal Performance Mapping®, unlike traditional psychometric instruments, approaches human behaviour from the perspective of neuroscience, rather than psychology. It is a new and exciting online tool that takes advantage of some of the most up-to-date neural discoveries to provide users with a series of ‘maps’ which are metaphorical representations of how their brain works. The maps enable individuals to identify the ways in which they prefer to respond to the world around them to achieve their goals. This insight also helps them to understand more about their true potential, as well as what may be hindering them from achieving even higher performance.

Now used by some of the world’s most successful companies, PRISM is the ultimate 21st Century human behaviour instrument, specifically designed to assist individuals meet the kinds of people-related challenges they face in today’s fast-changing market place. It can be used for a wide range of personal development issues, including: job bench marking, 360-degree feedback, coaching, personal development plans, recruitment, team development, conflict resolution, creating and monitoring competency frameworks, enhancing sales and customer service skills.

Perception is a person’s conscious experience of the world. It is how a person represents the world to himself or herself, from moment to moment, and how he or she interprets events within it. PRISM is fundamentally about the way in which people perceive each other’s behaviour. Many people find it uncomfortable to talk about behaviour and, as a result, choose their words inappropriately. What is perceived as ‘good’ behaviour by one person may be seen as ‘bad’ behaviour by another. Also, there are occasions when, to achieve our goals, we may need to modulate our behaviour: turn it up, turn it down, or balance one behaviour preference with another.

The PRISM Job Requirement Profile facility can be used to identify and measure a successful behavioural benchmark, for a particular job or role e.g quantifying the consistent key traits of your ‘star performers’. This is the process of comparing an ideal preferred behavioural ‘map’ against one or more actual candidates’ profiles, enabling users to quantify the suitability of each candidate for a position.

The PRISM Job Requirement Inventory

The PRISM Job Requirement Inventory provides a single eight dimension map which shows the behavioural preference requirements for a particular role. Created using an online questionnaire it enables the user to capture what high performance looks like in a specific role and turn this into a benchmark profile. This profile can then be matched against a candidate profile to provide an indication of suitability for the role. Once created it can be used repeatedly time and time again for subsequent recruitment drives.

Applications: Advertising, Recruitment, Assessment

The Job Requirement Inventory provides an accurate profile of a specific role and highlights the behavioural strengths required. In order to attract the right type of candidate key words can be extracted from the profile and included in both internal and external job advertisements. These words are more likely to appeal to applicants with similar preferences and the number of applicants suitable for the role will therefore be higher.

At the interview stage the benchmark is matched against a candidate’s personal profile (full version or ‘Macro’) allowing the user to see a visual match and target appropriate questions based on a candidate’s fit with the benchmark.

PRISM ‘Macro’

PRISM ‘Macro’provides a single eight dimension candidate profile which can be matched against a Job Requirement profile. A printout of the candidate / job match analysis is provided. This instrument can be upgraded at a later date to the full version of PRISM.

Applications: Assessment, Recruitment.

In conjunction with the Job Requirement it is used to match candidates suitability to a benchmarked role. It is indispensable for use at the short-listed interview stage as it allows the user to target appropriate questions based on the match.
Following selection of a suitable candidate PRISM ‘Macro’ can be upgraded to the full instrument providing all the PRISM outputs. This can then be used as a basis for raising self awareness and generating initial development plans.

PRISM ‘Pro-Select’

PRISM ‘Pro-Select’ provides a high volume, low cost instrument which prioritises a candidate’s work preference and matches them with the behavioural priorities of a job. A printout of the candidate / job match analysis is provided. This version is based on prioritised dimensions and is not designed to match with ‘Macro’ or the full version.

Applications: Recruitment (high volume – low cost)

Provides a simple, yet accurate method of screening candidates in high volume applications such as call centres and retailing. PRISM‘Pro-Select’ has been specifically designed for quick completion and adds minimal time to the recruitment process. A review of the output map and analysis provides the user with a good indication of best fit for a particular role.

To discuss how PRISM could help you or your company please call Jane on 01342 302684 or Beatrice on 020 8822 1882 or email: prism@oakhurstexec.com.