Insights
INSIGHTS FOLLOW UP OPTIONS
Build on your team’s Insights foundation with applicable and meaningful follow up options.
The Learning Doesn’t End After A Discovery Session
Insights Discovery is a powerful and interactive tool that improves communication, decision-making and performance to achieve team and organizational goals. But the learning doesn’t stop there.
Teams are encouraged to deepen their learning of Insights through a variety of follow up sessions and resources, designed to meet a range of organizational needs.
- Insights Follow Up Education
- These one-hour sessions use Insights concepts to teach applicable skills on a variety of topics.
- Insights Deep Dive
- A facilitated conversation that allows team members to dig deep into topics that are meaningful to the team, through the lens of Insights.
- Insights Follow Up Resources
- Tools and resources that leaders and teams can use to embed the learning into their day-to-day work.
INSIGHTS FOLLOW UP EDUCATION
Insights Follow Up Education sessions are facilitated, interactive courses that draw on Insights concepts to enhance understanding and application of meaningful skills.
Prerequisite: All participants of an Insights follow up session must have completed an Insights Discovery session and have a current Insights profile.
Adapting and Connecting
Recognize the unique needs of each color energy and learn skills to adapt your communication to enhance mutual understanding and connection. Realize the impact of enhanced connection on your personal and professional relationships.
Key Learning Points
- Discuss the benefit of adapting behaviors to meet the color energy needs of others and improve relationships
- Learn the skills of connecting with others for better results
- Discuss the relationship between ‘adapting’ and ‘connecting’
Timing: 1 Hour
Conflict Resolution
Understanding conflict and how to manage conflict is essential in all work environments. This course draws a deeper understanding of ways to effectively recognize conflict and techniques to manage the strengths and challenges associated with each color energy.
Key Learning Points
- Identify causes of conflict
- Recognize how different color energies experience conflict
- Understanding the strengths and challenges each color energy brings to conflict management
- Learn how to give feedback during conflict
Timing: 1 hour
Discovering Team Effectiveness
Improve rapport, relationships and productivity. This session enables teams to achieve their collective goals, confront problems, inspire success and unlock potential.
Key Learning Points
- Provides participants with insight into the gifts they and others bring to the group
- Creates a space for open and honest dialogue
- Explores the team dynamic, and the strengths and weaknesses of the group in the context of key team objectives
- Provides a framework for setting individual and team action plans
Timing: 1 Hour
Giving & Receiving Insightful Feedback
Feedback is essential to developing performance in others and reinforcing effective behaviors. This course provides a simple communication tool for providing effective and well-rounded feedback by leveraging all four color energies. Participants will learn tips and strategies for providing and receiving insightful feedback and will have an opportunity to examine what they can learn from the feedback they provide others.
Key Learning Points
- Understand how to use feedback to reinforce or change behavior
- Use a communication model to formulate effective feedback
- Learn tips to provide and receive feedback
- Evaluate what you can learn about yourself through the feedback you give others
Timing: 1 Hour
Insightful Communication
Communication is key in the workplace – effective dialogue allows teams to work more effectively and efficiently. Participants will learn a communications process that is most effective in working with each Insights color. Verbal and email communication tips are described.
Key Learning Points
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Explain a communication process
- Describe preferred communication styles for each Insights color
- List tips to better communicate with each Insights color
Timing: 1 Hour
Insights Into Learning Styles
This session provides insightful information to assist with balancing learning needs against preferred learning styles. This session will focus on understanding the components of each learning style, color energies preferences and increasing motivation during the learning process.
Key Learning Points
- Define Learning Style
- Understand the Four Color Learning Styles
- Increase Motivation and Conation
- Strengthen approaches on learning
Timing: 1 Hour
INSIGHTS DEEP DIVE
Insights Deep Dive is a facilitated team conversation that drives deep discussion of topics meaningful to your team, through the lens of Insights. These thought-provoking conversations are meant to increase awareness, broaden perspective and enhance teamwork through a deep exportation of the connection between Insights and team dynamics.
- Deep Dive sessions begin with a brief overview of the Insights color energies and a review of guiding principles that drive open and honest conversations
- Participants will be given time to process the questions individually before discussing with the group.
- This session is ideal for teams of up to 20 employees.
- Timing: 1.5 – 2 hours
- Leader’s investment in setting the stage and creating the an open environment is critical to the success of the session
ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS FOLLOW UP RESOURCES
Embed Insights into your team culture by using these resource to guide work on relevant topics.
- Keeping Insights Discovery Alive for Managers: Practical tools, ideas and activities that managers can use to embed the learnings of Insights Discovery on their teams.
- Contract of Commitment Activity Sheet: An worksheet used to guide conversations with team members that will help them to better understand each other and make commitments to each other about how to work and interact with each other.
- Making Meetings Matters: A worksheet used to assess current meeting dynamics and evaluate the needs of meeting participants. Practical tips are provided to maximize meeting preparation, facilitation, process checks, and follow up in.
- Insightful Change: This resource provides information on how each of the color energies processes change along with tips that can help ease a transition.