Wave® Professional & Focus Styles Questionnaires

The most powerful predictors of workplace performance and potential.

Utilizing powerful technology, research and data, the Wave Professional & Focus Styles Personality Questionnaires provide unrivalled solutions for smarter hiring and development. Both questionnaires generate a suite of reports, accessible to a range of business stakeholders for a consistent and aligned talent strategy.

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Dive deeper into what matters

Our flagship questionnaires are built on behaviors that are proven to be the strongest predictors of workplace performance and potential.

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  • Reduces the odds of identifying a poor performer from 1 in 5 to 1 in 50
  • Utilizes over 15 years of big data, including over 30,000 ratings of potential
  • Internationally applicable with research conducted across 50 countries
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Unlock an individual’s true potential

Each questionnaire intuitively interacts with the user, providing unparalleled insight alongside unrivalled accuracy.

  • Uses a unique ‘rate and rank’ format to delve deeper into strengths, challenge areas and understand what really makes an individual tick
  • Identifies the relationship between workplace motive, talent and culture to ensure successful candidates fit and thrive in the organization
  • Leverages smart AI (Artificial Intelligence) to test for consistency and mitigate overly-positive or negative profiles
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Our next-generation talent platform Wave Connect unlocks the data from our Wave personality questionnaires with dynamic dashboards, ensuring you identify the right people for the right roles.

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Wave Professional and Focus Styles Reports

The Wave Professional Styles Questionnaire takes 35 minutes for candidates to complete and generates a suite of over 20 reports.

The Wave Focus Styles Questionnaire takes 13 minutes for candidates to complete and generates a suite of over 10 reports.

These reports are generated based on an individual’s responses and provide detailed insight into a candidate’s personality, talents and motives. Reports can be tailored to reflect organizational competencies, leadership frameworks and values.

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Take a look through the reports below that are generated from our Wave Professional Styles and Focus Styles Questionnaires.

Expert Report

Depth of information adds rigor to selection and development decisions. Ideal for candidate shortlisting, hiring and individual development.

Line Manager Report

Illustrates a candidate’s behaviors, potential and cultural fit. Designed to be interpreted by Line Managers, Assessors and Interviewers (without the need for training).

Candidate Report

Designed for candidate feedback. Can be used either as a standalone product or can be accompanied by telephone or face-to-face discussion.

Interview Guide

Structure interviews with this user-friendly report for recruiters and managers. Uses powerful data to probe areas of concern and verify candidate strengths.

Onboarding Report

Align an individual’s strengths and challenge areas with your business objectives for focused development from the start.

Coaching Report

Breaks down the barriers associated with traditional coaching programs, offering organizations a solution that can be delivered both in-house and virtually.

Development Report

Draws on over 1,200 practical development actions to promote focused development planning, bridging the gap between development diagnosis and tangible action.

Work Roles Report

Highlights an individual’s most and least preferred roles in the workplace and how to use them effectively when collaborating with others, helping you to build highly-effective teams.

Leadership Risk Report

Identifies unintentional risk areas of behavior and how to mitigate their repercussions on the individual, the organization and the culture. Allowing you to recruit and develop exceptional leaders.

Leadership Impact Expert Report

Identify leadership potential in line with your organizational outcomes and culture to hire and develop leaders who will make a truly positive impact.

Sales Expert Report

Assesses an individual’s potential in eight key sales areas and identify those with the behaviors to be top sales performers.

Sales Interview Guide

Generates a series of relevant questions for hiring managers to utilize at interview when hiring sales people.

Sales Development Report

Drives superior sales performance of current sales talent. Targets key areas for development, highlights potential overplayed strengths and provides practical development activities.

Sales Line Manager Report

Equips line managers with the data and power to transform the sales effectiveness of their teams.

Sales Environment Fit Report

Candidate report highlighting which workplace situations individuals are most likely to be effective in and whether they have what it takes to work in a sales environment.

Entrepreneur Report

Identifies entrepreneurial potential. This report can be used in recruitment, for coaching entrepreneurs and for driving corporate entrepreneurship/innovation.

Wave-trained users can also take advantage of a range of Expert Reports that include powerful report combinations at extremely cost-effective rates.

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Reveal a Richer Level of Information

The flagship Expert Reports available from Wave Professional & Focus Styles explore personality at depths others simply don’t offer.

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  • Three unique ‘deep dives’ illustrate what a candidate enjoys doing, what they are good at doing, and which areas of work they will prioritize, at a granular level.
  • The reports illustrate how an individual has interacted with the questionnaire, revealing inconsistencies in responses and how positive or negative they have been about themselves.
  • Expert reports can be customized to an organization’s own talent framework to create a report that speaks ‘your language’, all the while underpinned by the power and accuracy of the Wave model.
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If you would like to know more about either Wave Professional Styles or Wave Focus Styles, our team will be happy to discuss the right option for you and get your project started. Fill in the form below to book a demo or find out more.

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