Insights Discovery
Increasing Profitability (Top 10 Business Challenges)
In a survey of top companies, The Insights Group found that increasing profitability was one of the top ten challenges facing businesses. So how does Insights Discovery help here? Insights Discovery® uses a four colour model, comprised of Cool Blue, Fiery Red, Earth Green and Sunshine Yellow energies, to describe people’s strengths, styles and team contributions. The unique combination of these helps to determine why we each think and behave the way we do. A person who leads with Sunshine Yellow energy might produce a fountain of ideas on how to make a business more profitable. They may hit upon the ideal solution, but it might take an individual who leads with Fiery Red energy to take the decisive step to identify this idea and drive it into action. While someone who has a preference for Fiery Red energy would probably …
Top 10 Business Challenges
In a survey of a range of businesses, the Insights Group identified the top 10 challenges that are common to businesses across a range of sizes and cultures. So there is a pretty good chance that your biggest challenges can be found in this list below. They are: Increasing Profitability Retaining Talent Making Organisational Change Cost Reduction Changes in Personnel – People Joining Increasing Agility Getting the Best Out of Our People Generating Revenue Changes in Personnel – People Leaving Productive Relationships In no particular order (where have we heard that before…) we are publishing a series of blogs considering one of these challenges and offering ideas on how the self-awareness offered by the Insights Discovery® profile can be applied to each one. As they are published, each one will be linked to the list above. Performance – Workplace Development is …
Two tools for raising team effectiveness
I was talking with someone from a small (two-person) team recently. Working for a small charity, their responsibility was for fundraising a challenging amount of money for the year. Dividing the work and opportunities evenly between them didn’t seem to be working and both were feeling stress levels rising. And then they were offered some psychometric profiling. It clearly identified one person as being relatively introverted, focussed and with good attention to detail. Her colleague could hardly have been more different. Outgoing, bubby and extroverted, she drew her energy from meeting with people and found paperwork draining. What a revelation this understanding of each other brought! Instead of dividing the work evenly, they split it by temperament. Our introvert spends more time researching, applying to trusts, completing the paperwork (yes, even her colleague’s paperwork!) She feels a new freedom and no …
