Organizational Intelligence
HR & Leadership
From first interview to succession planning—PREP helps you hire right, retain longer, and promote with confidence. If your current assessments aren’t showing you burnout risk, team friction, or change readiness—that’s not a gap. That’s a blind spot that compounds.
5 min
Assessment Time
40+
Years of Validation
5,000+
Client Organizations
.91
Test-Retest Reliability
Employee / Job Match Cycle™
Which Level is Right for You?
COREpro™
Certification Level 2
COREpro™ — Foundation
Trait dynamics, scale positions, and subscales. Perfect for basic team building and foundational coaching.
✓ COREpro Character Profile
✓ Peer Coaching Guide
✓ Trait Description Chart
✓ PairMatch comparisons
PREPpro™
Certification Level 3
PREPpro™ — Resilience & Specialists
Everything in Level 2 plus Change Readiness and Resiliency analytics. This is where PREP’s unique value lives.
✓ Full Strengths and Development Report
✓ Energy Reserve & Stress Level data
✓ Change Readiness Scale
✓ Managerial, Sales & Specialist Coaching Guides
HRpro™
Certification Level 4
HRpro™ — Strategic HR
Full system plus advanced applications for succession planning, workforce analytics, and organizational consulting.
✓ All Level 3 reports
✓ Group analytics and facilitator reports
✓ Job Match tools
✓ White-label options available
What Competitors Can't Tell You
PREP is the only assessment that measures energy reserves alongside personality and communication style. This allows you to catch burnout before resignation.
✓ Energy Reserve — Available capacity
✓ Stress Level — Current load
✓ Change Readiness — Adaptability
Better decisions now. Fewer problems later.
See how PREP fits into your organization with a personalized demo. No pitch, just answers.
Go Deeper: The Employee Lifecycle
Recruiting & Selection
Recruiting & Selection
Sharpen Your Hiring Conversations
You’ve got a few hours with a candidate—usually less. Resumes tell you what they’ve done, not how they’ll work. Interviews reveal presentation skills, not stress response. A bad hire costs 30–50% of that role’s salary, and the real damage is the six months you lose figuring it out.
What PREP Shows You
The Job Match Report compares each candidate against your target profile for the role. A visual overlay shows where they align and where they don’t—plus stress patterns and resilience data no interview can surface. You also get candidate-specific interview questions designed to probe the gaps. No more generic scripts. You’ll know exactly what to ask before they walk in the door.
Reports Used
- Job Match Report – Candidate vs. target profile with match ratings
- Personal Strengths Profile — What conditions help them thrive
- CORE Roles Map — Natural fit for leadership, task, support roles
- Key Interview Questions — Auto-generated based on mismatches
- Energy Reserve & Stress — Is this person stretched thin right now?
“It was like having a management instruction manual at our fingertips.”
— Gregg Salkovich, Founder, Right Choice Resources
Now requires all candidates to complete PREP before recommending them.
Research note:
PREP data since before 1980 shows that predicting a mismatch is easier than predicting a match. Our metrics are one piece of the hiring puzzle. We cant predict the perfect hire — but we can flag who’s likely to struggle.
Onboarding
Onboarding
Head Start on Day One
Day one, your manager is guessing. How does this person learn? What communication style works? What will frustrate them? Most onboarding is one-size-fits-all—and the new hire spends months adapting to a process that might not fit their most productive environment.
PREP Gives a Head Start
Give managers a playbook before the new hire starts. The Pocket Coach shows how to communicate with this person, what motivates them, and what will frustrate them. Run a PairMatch between manager and new hire to surface friction points and see how the new hire and manager approach challenges.
Reports Used
- Manager PairMatch — Relationship dynamics between manager and new hire
- Personal Strengths Profile — What conditions help them thrive
- COREpro Interactive Analytics Map
- CORE Pocket Coach — Quick reference: how to communicate, engage, develop
“Since using PREP, the quality of hires has been far more successful and employee retention in my department has been 100%.”
— Doug Gosnell, Idealease
Previously found competitor tools “massive, confusing and often conflicting.”
The retention equation:
Only 1/3 of retention happens at hiring. The other 2/3 is orientation, daily coaching, and development. PREP supports both sides.
Training & Development
Training & Development
Training With Laser Insight
Generic development programs waste budget and time. You send everyone through the same leadership training, but half don’t need it and the other half need something different. Without knowing each person’s natural strengths and growth areas, you’re guessing where to invest.
Know Where to Invest
The Self Development Report shows each person’s natural strengths (leverage these) and development areas (invest here). The Trait Description Chart gives managers specific language for coaching conversations. Stop prescribing generic fixes—invest in personal development and see global returns.
Reports Used
- Self Development Report — Strengths to leverage, areas to develop
- Trait Description Chart — Specific coaching language per trait
- Career Options Page — Activity-based career matching
- CORE Roles Map
Practical Applicatoins
- Stretch assignments aligned with growth areas
- Coaching conversations that address resistance
- Career pathing that fits natural style
- Early warning on burnout or role mismatch
Research note:
Companies that personalize development see 30% higher engagement and 50% better retention of high performers.
Leadership & Team Building
Leadership & Team Building
Find what each person does best
You can see when a team isn’t working, but you can’t always see why. Conflict gets written off as personality or just ignored — without understanding the actual dynamics. Teams stumble through the same friction points project after project.
Bridging, Not Blending
PREP shows dynamics between people, not just individual profiles. The CORE Quadrant Map visualizes where everyone sits. PairMatch reports reveal friction points and bridges communication between any two people. Teams develop shared language for how they work—”I need the details” stops being an insult and starts being useful information.
“PREP opened our eyes to the various personality types and how they fit together to create a high-performing team. Morale has increased, we work much better as a team, we’re more productive and we collaborate better.”
— Tim Casey, Executive Director (retired), Bend Chamber of Commerce
The team rewrote job descriptions along profile lines.
Reports Used
- COREpro Interactive Map — Visual team overview
- Personal Strengths Profile — What conditions help them thrive
- Peer PairMatch — Dynamics between any two team members
- Peer Coaching Guide — How to work effectively together
- Group Coach Report — Facilitator’s comprehensive view
Evaluation & Succession Planning
Evaluation & Succession Planning
Prepared For Whats Next
Your highest-performer isn’t necessarily your next leader. The skills that made someone great in their current role may not transfer. Without objective insight, succession planning can be led by politics and gut feel—and you might end up promoting people into roles that don’t fit them, which is a bad outcome for everyone.
First Fit, Then Development
The CORE Roles Map shows natural fit for leadership, task/systems, and support roles—independent of current position. See who’s suited for what, then build toward it. Coaching Guides help current leaders support successors through the transition.
Reports Used
- CORE Roles Map — Natural fit for leadership, task, support roles
- Personal Strengths Profile — Full view including energy/stress
- Managerial Coaching Guide — Support the transition
- PREPpro CORE & Resiliency Subscales
Research note: The people who found and grow an organization often differ from those needed to run it long-term. PREP helps you see that transition point—and plan for it.
Burnout Prevention & Retention
Burnout Prevention & Retention
Identify and Act Early
By the time someone resigns from burnout, they checked out long ago. Engagement surveys tell you if people are unhappy—but not really why, and not who’s at risk of burnout. Burnout is often invisible until it’s too late.
See It Before It’s Too Late
The Personal Strengths Profile measures Energy Reserve (how much capacity someone has) and Stress Level (how much load they’re carrying). You can see who’s running on empty before they crash. Periodic reassessment creates an early warning system across your organization.
Reports Used
- Personal Strengths Profile — Includes Energy Reserve and Stress Level
- Change Readiness Scale — Overall adaptability right now
- Change Readiness Summary — Personalized coaching opportunities
- PREPpro CORE & Resiliency Subscales
PREP’s Unique Capabilities
No major competitor measures current psychological state alongside personality traits. DiSC, MBTI, Predictive Index — none of them tell you if someone is burned out. PREP does.
Validation: PREP’s resiliency metrics have been cross-validated with Holmes-Rahe University of Washington studies, Beck Depression Inventory, and Worker’s Compensation recovery cases since 1984.
PREP coaches work inside organizations and as external consultants. Clients include:
AMD
Boeing
2008 Beijing Olympic Committee
Coaching & Intercultural Courses at Deggendorf Institute of Technology
Leadership Development International
Mt Bachelor Ski Area
Vail Associates
Ottoboc
Portland Trail Blazers
Case Western
Weatherhead School of Business
TEC
Vistage
Kroger
Radio Advertising Bureau
Nike
Willamette College
Durham Transportation
Microsoft
Executive Edge
Westin Hotels
Cognis
Bayer Pharma
United Way
Youth with a Mission
Blue Cross
First American Financial
Bend Chamber of Commerce
Samsung
Clackamas Community College
COCC
Starbucks
Stericycle
Pacific Source Health Plans
US Forest Service
Bureau of Land Management
Redmond Leadership Programs
Dell Computers