One of the highlights of Craig Mod’s interview with Tim Ferriss was Craig’s story about going on long walks in Japan. It literally gave me goosebumps. He walked 8 hours during the day, did 4-5 hours of creative writing in the evening and then published 2000-word blogposts daily for 30 consecutive days. What struck a […]
Failure 1 We just sat there, staring at the screen. Seven seconds. That’s all that was left. When you’re building credibility from zero, every workshop matters. Every client testimonial is gold. Every piece of content represents hours you can’t get back. Two weeks ago, at the end of delivering a successful Insights Discovery workshop, participants […]
You come across a people development program that boasts of 2063% ROI. What doubts would creep in your mind? My cool blue energy (cautious, precise, questioning) would be brimming with pointed questions: How credible is their calculation process? How did they calculate the monetary benefits? How was the data collected? What interventions were used? How […]
Victus People Newsletter
Why only 33% of employees feel their managers understand what motivates them?
In the middle of the afternoon, in the middle of the week, under Bangkok’s blistering heat, we decided to attend an AMCHAM Thailand Foundation (ATF) event. Sweaty decision! But thankfully, it was worth the shirts sticking to our backs. What made it especially valuable was a striking statistic we came across from Deloitte‘s 2025 Global […]
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 […]
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 […]
Personal Development, Team Development
How to Improve Team Performance Through Personality Type Understanding
Imagine walking into a meeting where everyone just… gets each other. No awkward misunderstandings, no frustrated sighs, no silent tensions bubbling beneath the surface. Sounds like a workplace fairy tale, right? But what if I told you this isn’t just a dream? It’s possible, and it starts with something surprisingly simple: truly understanding […]
What is Executive Presence? When we launched our first proposal in Thailand, the HR executive told us that she had never heard about this before but it is EXACTLY what she needs for a group of middle managers now. The employees have all the technical skills but lack ‘something’ that reduces their chances of getting […]
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 […]
VALUE – Buzz word? – Cool Thing? Do you really know what it is? The Illusion of Knowing Ourselves We went to a small forum the other night. The topic was about organizational culture and how to build one that fits right for your company. To me, culture is the air that everybody in […]