Insights Discovery

In today’s climate of global disruption, home-working and rapid change, it’s important for everyone to be adaptable and feel connected to their work colleagues. Insights Discovery builds the foundations for these emotionally intelligent capabilities – starting with self-awareness and self-understanding before moving on to understanding others, working in a virtual team and leading in today’s new workplace.

Working with Insights Discovery

Insights Discovery is a psychometric tool for personality profiling based on the psychology of Carl Jung. It uses a four-colour personality profile model to highlight key personality preferences and behaviours, helping people better understand themselves and others. Used for individual performance or wider team development within the workplace, this increased awareness of personal preferences enables more respectful, productive and positive working relationships, even across virtual boundaries.

By working with Insights Discovery personal profiles we can understand our individual perception of the world, improve self-awareness and enhance our ability to communicate, motivate and lead those around us. Now, more than ever, we can leverage awareness of our own Insights Discovery colour energy preferences to enhance our virtual communication, leading and working in teams.

Flexing our preferred personal style to accommodate others’ preferences enables us to lead, support and motivate others through the current uncertainty and changes ahead.

Now available as virtual, interactive workshops, LifeForward offers individual, team and leadership training, working with Insights Discovery personal profiles.

Beginning the Insights Journey

At LifeForward we use Insights Discovery in our workshops and one-to-one executive coaching as a tool to develop self-awareness and understanding. Insights Discovery® is a practical and visual model which builds on Carl Jung’s 8-type wheel to describe preferences in terms of colour energies.

It allows people to easily recognise and understand differing personality styles and preferences and provides a common language for adapting and improving communication, teamwork and leadership capabilities.

The use of four colour energies – Fiery Red, Sunshine Yellow, Earth Green and Cool Blue – creates a memorable common language and framework on which participants can base their future interactions.

Continuing the Discovery Journey

Once individuals and teams are familiar with the language of the four colour energies in the Insights Discovery model there are many different ways to continue the development journey. Insights Discovery offers rich and diverse content to help people enhance relationships, communication and the connectivity, essential to high-performance. It also offers a clear framework for leadership development, providing the opportunity to explore leadership strengths and areas for development, as well as the opportunity to develop key emotional competencies such as self-management, influencing others, empathy and managing conflict.

Insights Discovery Transformational Leadership

Building on the Insights Discovery personal profile, and using the Insights evaluation, the Insights Discovery Transformational Leadership profile is a personalised leadership profile that provides leaders with information about how they perform across eight essential leadership dimensions as well as an overview of their leadership approach.

Find out more about transformational leadership and our leadership development programmes here.

The Value of Insights in the Virtual World

Come and talk to us about how working with Insights Discovery personal profiles and your colour energies can help you motivate and inspire your team, build resilience, enhance team effectiveness and improve communication in a virtual world.

LifeForward’s Virtual Workshops

Virtual Introduction to Insights Discovery

Insights Discovery colour energy champions

This two-hour virtual workshop helps people build a greater understanding of themselves and their teams to build more productive and positive working relationships, even in the virtual world.

This virtual workshop will give participants the ability to:

improve understanding of others’ personal preferences;
value strengths that others contribute to the team;
adapt their communication style to better connect with colleagues on calls and in meetings, virtually and in person;
improve collaboration, even under pressure.

The workshop includes:

Insights Discovery Personal Profile | Basics of Insights E-learning | Foundation Reference Guide and Job Aids | Digital Colour Blocks

Working in a Virtual Team

LifeForward Insights support team This two-hour virtual workshop helps teams build flexibility and connectivity to work effectively as a virtual team, whether they are new to the virtual work environment or experienced hands at working remotely.

This virtual workshop will give participants the ability to:

apply their understanding of personal preferences to their virtual environment;
recognise the value that each team member brings to the collective results of the team;
build stronger individual and team relationships whether working virtually or when back in the office;
set team development goals focusing on collective areas for improvement.

The workshop includes:

Insights Discovery Personal Profile | Basics of Insights e-learning | Foundation Reference Guide and Job Aids | Digital Colour Blocks

Leading in a Virtual Environment

This two-hour virtual workshop helps leaders explore their core leadership strengths and challenges as they seek to motivate, develop, engage and inspire their teams in today’s challenging world.

The workshop will enable participants to:

explore leadership strengths and challenges when leading in a virtual environment;
understand how their personal leadership approach influences and motivates those around them;
develop a powerful approach to leadership “leading above the line”;
apply the four dimensions of leadership – centred leadership, relationship leadership, visionary leadership and results leadership – to become a more effective leader.

The workshop includes:

Insights Discovery Personal Profile | E-learning Module | Job Aids for Leading above the Line and Communicating with Impact |Motivators and Blockers Application | Leadership Blocks

An Introduction to Insights Discovery

At LifeForward we use Insights Discovery in our workshops and in one-to-one coaching as a tool to develop self-awareness and understanding. Insights Discovery® is a practical and visual model which builds on Carl Jung’s 8-type wheel to describe preferences in terms of colour energies.

Your Insights Discovery® Personal Profile will give you:

A guide to your personal style and your preferences for interacting with others, decision-making and management style.
Strengths and suggestions for development.
An understanding of other personality types.
Suggestions on possible blind spots, opportunities for learning and development, communication skills, influencing and leadership.

Follow our Insights Discovery posts in our News & Articles for a colourful introduction to different aspects of Insights.

What to expect from Insights Discovery at LifeForward

At LifeForward we offer the opportunity to use Insights Discovery in many different ways.

The profile is versatile and in-depth enough to help individuals and teams through a wide range of issues, changes and growth:

As a tool to assist individual growth and development through coaching or as part of a personal development training programme.
Working with teams to develop cohesion, better communication and understanding to improve performance, and maximise team potential.
To provide a framework for organisational change and planning by improving communication across the organisation and within leadership. Applying Insights Discovery® colour energies to the organisation to assess cultural attributes, strengths and characteristics and to build a strategy to drive the potential of the organisation and its people.
As part of a leadership development programme, leaders can explore their personal leadership style, build awareness of the impact this has within and outside the organisation (both positive and problematic), and develop an action plan for personal growth and development.

More Insights Workshops

Personal Effectiveness

Workshop
Coaching

Insights Discovery for Individuals

Concepts explored within this programme will give individuals the self-awareness needed for continued self-development. It will improve communication skills and work relationships, resulting in a more harmonious workplace.

Team Effectiveness

Workshop
Coaching

Insights Discovery for Teams

This workshop will give teams the common language and framework needed to help them understand and appreciate the unique perception, preferences and value of each team member, creating strong effective communication strategies and winning team dynamics.

Leadership Effectiveness

Workshop
Coaching

Insights Discovery for Leaders

Leaders will be given an opportunity to examine their personal leadership style, their value and effectiveness as leaders. They will have the opportunity to adapt and develop a broader, more empathetic & effective approach to leadership.

Organisational Culture

Assessment
Team Culture

Insights Discovery for Organisations

Using Insights Discovery’s organisational energies we can work with leaders, teams and stakeholders to explore an organisation’s existing culture, assess the resulting internal impact and help build the case for change.

Personal Effectiveness

Workshop
Coaching

Insights Discovery® for Individuals

Team Effectiveness

Workshop
Coaching

Insights Discovery® for Teams

Leadership Effectiveness

Workshop
Coaching

Insights Discovery® for Leaders

Organisational Culture

Assessment
Team Culture

Insights Discovery® for Organisations

Personal Effectiveness

Workshop
Coaching

Insights Discovery for Individuals

Team Effectiveness

Workshop
Coaching

Insights Discovery for Teams

This workshop will give teams the common language and frameworkneeded to help them understand and appreciate the unique perception, preferences and value of each team member, creating strong effective communication strategies and winning team dynamics.

Leadership Effectiveness

Workshop
Coaching

Insights Discovery for Leaders

Organisational Culture

Assessment
Team Culture

Insights Discovery for Organisations

What our clients say
The benefits of Insights Discovery
How Insights Discovery is different

I used Sarah’s services at LifeForward to help me, both personally and in my business role. I had transitioned from a corporate management role to working as a director with my husband in our financial advice business. Moving from an environment working within a large team of people to working with one other person was a massive change. I also had to deal with moving from a role where I could specialise in one area to one where I had to do everything, from admin to book-keeping, which was a shock and a big knock to my confidence.

Sarah helped me focus on all the things I am good at rather than judge myself by the ones I was not so comfortable with. She gave me clarity of thinking and increased focus. I would thoroughly recommend LifeForward Coaching from both a personal and business perspective.

Fascinating to have my Insights Discover profile done by Sarah Reynolds of LifeForward Ltd. The results were both very interesting and very accurate. A great building block for team building.

Using Insights Discovery in coaching can be very effective as:

A framework for self-understanding of both personal strengths and blind spots.

A powerful way to raise self-awareness and analyse individual behaviours and preferences.

A way to better understand interactions and communication with others.

A development tool to enhance leadership characteristics and adaptability, improve emotional intelligence, relationship and conflict management.

Insights Discovery is a valuable tool for organisational and leadership development and executive coaching as well as personal and team communication and effectiveness.

A leadership development tool to enhance leadership characteristics and adaptability, improve emotional intelligence, relationship and conflict management.

It encourages people to be flexible in their communication and approach, learning to understand how to get the best from everyone in the team and maximising everyone’s strengths.

Insights Discovery can provide depth through a 20+ page Personal Profile.

The model of the 72-type wheel provides a practical and visual model that is easy to understand and can be used to develop memorable training sessions.