Leveraging Insights and Strengthscope: Empowering Individuals and Organisations

In today’s competitive and changing world, understanding ourselves is crucial for both personal fulfilment and professional success. Psychometric tools, like Insights and Strengthscope, offer powerful frameworks to gain a deeper understanding of our behaviours, preferences, and strengths. This blog explores why taking a deeper dive with Strengthscope after initially working with Insights can increase your focus on development and drive forward performance.

What does Insights bring?

The Insights psychometric tool is based on Carl Jung’s theory of personality types. It categorizes individuals into four colour energies: Fiery Red, Sunshine Yellow, Earth Green, and Cool Blue. Each colour represents a set of characteristics that describe how a person interacts with the world. Insights helps you gain increased self-awareness of your personality and behaviour patterns. Identifying your colour helps you to become more aware of your natural preferences and tendencies. In my mind, increasing self-awareness is the first step towards personal growth, as it allows you to understand why you behave the way you do.

Improved Communication

One of the reasons organisations embed Insights is for its impact on communication. By understanding your own communication style and that of others, you can tailor your interactions to be more effective to work for you and your team. For instance, if you are predominantly Fiery Red, you may be direct and decisive. Recognizing that a colleague is Earth Green and prefers a more empathetic and supportive approach can help you adjust your communication style to ensure better collaboration and understanding. The impact is more effective team relationships and better business results.

Better Team Dynamics

Insights is a valuable tool for improving team dynamics. By mapping out the colour energies of team members, leaders can readily understand each member in terms of their colour. When teams contain a balance of colours, teams have diverse perspectives and these different perspectives are recognised. It creates a straightforward, quick and easy-to-adopt way to access styles and understand each other.

What does Strengthscope bring?

Strengthscope is a strengths-based assessment tool that identifies an individual’s unique strengths across 24 work-related strengths. It focuses on what energizes you and helps you perform at your best.

Focus on Strengths

Unlike traditional development approaches that often concentrate on improving your weaknesses, Strengthscope focuses on building on your strengths. Research shows that people are more engaged and productive when they use their strengths regularly. By identifying your top strengths, you can align your roles and tasks with what you naturally enjoy, the result being you optimise your strengths to achieve peak performance. For example, if one of your strengths is Creativity, you might seek opportunities to engage in tasks that allow for innovative thinking and problem-solving. Doing this more in your role can lead to greater job satisfaction and better results. A win for you individually as you get more of that buzz and for the organisation as they get more out of their most valuable asset, in my opinion, their people.

Why Use Strengthscope with Insights?

Insights is a great way to start the language of personality and preferences. Strengthscope can help you to take this to a deeper level of understanding. It takes a greater investment of time but the results are a deeper understanding it takes that level of four colours to 24 Strengths. Strengthscope supports individuals in valuing their uniqueness, it identifies your most energising 7 strengths. The chance of you having the same top 7 strengths in the same order as anyone else is 1 in 1.3 billion, 4 or 5 other people in the world. It’s a massive statistic which helps us to recognise and value diversity within your teams.

My clients will often start working with Strengthscope, taking a deeper dive with leadership teams or those teams who have gone through change. For specific individuals who would particularly benefit from that deeper understanding of themselves, this is frequently new leaders or succession, key in supporting change within the organisation who would benefit from that boost in energy, confidence and motivation.

We all know humans are far more complex than being determined by four types. Moving from those initial four boxes, those four colours to 24 Strengths means a deeper understanding and a more complex look at our preferences and a greater level of self-awareness. A deeper understanding leads to better decisions around using your strengths.

In taking that deeper dive, Strengths can be more consciously optimised and applied to business and personal goals.

• Create a positive Company Culture: based on conversation and celebration of strengths, building trust and hope. Creating talk of opportunities and solutions rather than threats and problems.
• Delegation skills: by understanding the strengths of your team members, you can delegate tasks more effectively around what energises them and not you
• Create Personal Development Plans with a strengths focus: base future opportunities around what energises your teams and supports organisational growth
• Career Development: helping you make informed decisions and plans about the roles and opportunities that are best suited to individual’s strengths
• Analysis of Team Strengths: consciously use your team members and combined strengths to optimise the strengths you need to achieve results and build engagement,

Conclusion

In conclusion, psychometric tools like Insights and Strengthscope provide invaluable benefits for both individuals and organizations. Starting with identifying preferences through Insights at a top level and then taking a deeper dive through Strengths to build individual confidence and motivation. Create peak performance for individuals and teams resulting in increasing productivity, drive and levels of positive culture for organisations.

Whether you’re an HR professional supporting your organisation in building teams for the future or a leader looking to enhance your team’s performance, Insights and Strengthscope together are powerful resources that can progress you on your journey.