Pairings

Pairings help you prepare two people who are about to work together. You choose the pair, the AI coach asks you a few questions about the situation, and you get a plan: where the two of them are likely to misread each other, a one-to-one conversation to have with each of them, and prompts for a joint conversation.

Who can use pairingsCopy Anchor Link

Pairings are for an organisation's admins and talent partners, such as an HR lead or a consultant supporting a placement. Team members don't see the Pairings page.

Running a pairingCopy Anchor Link

1. Open Pairings and choose the first and second person.
2. Select Compare to see where their profiles are most likely to meet, dimension by dimension, before anyone has said a word.
3. Choose what you're preparing for, such as one of them starting to report to the other or both joining the same project, or describe it in your own words.
4. Answer the coach's questions. It asks a few short questions, each with suggested replies, and stops once it has enough to go on.

You can pair anyone in the organisation who has a profile. If one of them hasn't completed a profile yet, the coach relies more on their user manual and on what you tell it.

Stand-in profilesCopy Anchor Link

A stand-in is someone who isn't using psymet yet, such as a new hire who hasn't started, entered with a type they already know. Stand-ins are visible only to admins and talent partners, and never appear on the members' team map.

Because a stand-in's type is entered by you rather than measured by psymet, treat it as a rougher guide than a completed profile.

Use stand-ins to prepare for someone joining after the decision to hire them has been made, never to compare or choose between candidates. See Responsible use.

What the plan containsCopy Anchor Link

• The coach's read: what will most shape how these two get on in their first months, and what the conversations below are for.
• Where it could go wrong: two to four likely problem areas, most important first, each with the early signs to watch for.
• Your conversation with each person: what you're aiming for, the questions to ask in order, and what to help them understand about the other person.
• Then, together: prompts for a short three-way conversation, once both one-to-ones are done.
• Suggested methods: where a good fit exists, one or two structured exercises you could run with the pair. See Coaching cards.

Coming back to a pairingCopy Anchor Link

Past pairings are listed on the Pairings page, so you can reopen a plan when you're about to have the conversations. You can also talk the same pairing through again. The coach remembers what you discussed last time about that pair and picks up from there.

Pairing conversations are subject to a daily limit, which resets on a rolling basis.

PrivacyCopy Anchor Link

A pairing is private to the person who ran it. Neither of the two people is told about it, and neither can read it.

Using pairings responsiblyCopy Anchor Link

A pairing is preparation for a working relationship, not an assessment of either person. Don't use a plan to decide anything about someone's role. The coach's suggestions are generated by AI and can be wrong or incomplete, so use your own judgement.