Author Archives: Girish

What is Insights Personality Test?

What is the use of personality test

I’ll be honest with you, until late 2023, I hadn’t even heard of Insights Discovery and just 6 months after that, we’d decided to become the first Insights partner (polite for ‘distributor’) in Thailand. That’s how far it influenced me and my partner. I’m going to try to be as objective as possible in this […]

April 2025 Newsletter

April Newsletter Victus People

Same Reality, Different Perceptions An earthquake shakes the city. Person A is in a seven-story apartment. Person A quickly jogs down the stairs with two others, reaching the ground level with little fuss. Outside, the scene is relatively calm; next door hotel guests are in their hurriedly thrown-on clothes, a few social media opportunists are […]

5 L&D Programs Companies are Prioritising in 2025 (and why they matter)

5 Top L&D Programs in 2025

These 5 programs are based on recent requests we’ve received to design and/or deliver workshops for Global and Thai organisations across industries like retails, pharmaceuticals, and FMCG, collectively representing over 100,000 employees worldwide. And of course, with a little help from the L&D grapevine 😁 1. Building Emotional Intelligence and Resilience for a Thriving Workforce […]

January 2025 Newsletter

Newsletter victus people

You’re witnessing the first rays of 2025 from Bangkok. We’re not really the “31st Eve” kind of people, we’re more “1st morning” enthusiasts. Or, as Gen. Z might say, we’re total Dayroom vibes. 🤓 With all the gloom and doom around, here’s to hoping 2025 (continues to) bring: More joy to your work More wisdom […]

December 2024 Newsletter

December newsletter Victus People

It’s that time of the year. December 2, 2024 It’s thanksgiving and we’d like to extend you, our reader, a heartfelt thank you for extending your trust and time in being part of our journey. May this thanksgiving season, you got the best of Black Friday deals, a beautiful vacation to spend your holidays, time […]

November 2024 Newsletter

Teambuilding

Celebrating Thailand’s First Public Discovery Event! November 1, 2024 We were excited and proud to host Thailand’s first-ever public Insights Discovery (ID) event. Leaders from different industries came to explore the ID tool and model, and we were lucky to have some well-known Thai personalities join us too. The biggest challenge was to squeeze all […]

How to Lead with Empathy and Build Stronger Teams

How to lead with Empathy

  We were in an online meeting with our training partner, who was 20 minutes late because he was stuck on another call with an important client. When he finally joined, he apologised sincerely. I asked if he wanted to take a 5-minute break and grab some water before we started, but he said he […]

Emotional Self Awareness

Gut instinct

Oprah Winfrey was transferred—actually demoted—from being a news reader to a daytime talk show host and this is what she said about hosting the show, “I felt lit up from inside, like I had come home to myself. When the hour had ended, there was a sense of knowing resonating within my heart and radiating […]

The A, B, C of Influencing Someone at Work

How to influence someone at work

The A, B, C of Influencing Someone at Work A question that often pops up in our EQ workshops is, “Isn’t it manipulative to get someone to do what we want?” Well, think about it this way, would you say the same about interviewing, negotiating, or even dating? Dr. Nashater Deu Solheim, a forensic psychologist […]