Improving team performance often comes down to one thing: understanding why your teammates work the way they do. When people recognize each other’s personality types, misunderstandings shrink, communication gets easier, and collaboration starts to feel natural instead of forced. Imagine walking into a meeting where everyone just… gets each other. No awkward misunderstandings, no frustrated […]
Category Archives: Personal Development
People Development Starts with Self-Awareness People development is the ongoing process of helping employees grow their skills, behavior, and potential, so they perform better and feel more fulfilled at work. It’s a priority for any organization serious about retention, leadership pipeline, and culture. But before you can develop someone, they need to understand themselves. That’s […]
We once worked with an APAC leadership team of an international medical company. The regional director led with strong Sunshine Yellow energy; warm and enthusiastic, the kind of person people would genuinely enjoy being around. Before the workshop, we ran an anonymous psychological safety survey. When we showed the results, the leader was visibly shaken. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Self-Awareness and Inner Focus We had many calls yesterday about strategies and how to grow our business this year. These discussions led me to reflect on the importance of staying grounded in reality and not letting the external environment affect our emotions, whether it’s feeling overly excited or worrying about what lies ahead. What I […]
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 […]
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