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title: High Potential Trait Indicator (HPTI)
description: The High Potential Trait Indicator (HPTI) is a workplace personality assessment grounded in the 'Big 5' model, assessing traits that predict job success and risk for derailment.
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# High Potential Trait Indicator (HPTI) for your business

The Thomas High Potential Trait Indicator (HPTI) helps identify leadership potential by exploring a person’s personality traits and provides an insight into how suited they may be for a given job role or position. You can use the HPTI to:

✔ Retain your future stars by developing them into senior roles  
✔ Boost teamwork amongst leaders  
✔ Create and support leadership development plans  
✔ Inform succession planning  
✔ Boost employee engagement by creating strong leadership  
✔ Add certainty to graduate recruitment

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#### Simple Assessment

The HPTI is a simple assessment but by completing it, you will gain a comprehensive report into an individuals potential.

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#### Detailed Reports

Use the HPTI to understand how different personalities interact with a particular function or role. Use this knowledge to develop their strengths and identify areas for improvement.

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#### No good or bad scores

Interpreting high scores on tests as ‘good’ and low scores as ‘bad’ is not true for the HPTI. The key point is that every set of scores indicates a preferred leadership style: just because you scored outside the optimum band does not mean you cannot lead.

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"For our senior team members, who are highly skilled and experienced people, HPTI has helped to bring clarity to conversations on where to go next helping us to put leadership action plans in place"

**Michela Deegan**

#### Learning and Development Manager

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