Insights Discovery

We use Insights Discovery to help leaders, managers and teams improve leadership, communication, collaboration and team working.

We do this through both one-to-one coaching and group sessions for teams and cohorts of leaders.

What is Insights Discovery?

Insights Discovery is a personality and communication preferences tool that helps leaders and teams improve self-awareness, communication, collaboration and leadership effectiveness.

Participants receive a personalised profile, written in clear, practical language, covering:

  • Key strengths - including how and where they may become over‑played
  • Communication and interaction style
  • Preferred approach to decision-making
  • How they prefer to lead and managed - and be led and managed by others

Simple to understand and easy to apply, it gives leaders, teams and the organisation a shared language for how they can work most effectively together.

How Organisations Use Insights Discovery

Organisations typically use Insights to enhance team effectiveness, strengthen communication and collaboration and develop their leaders and managers. 
In our work with teams, we typically use the tool to:
  • Build a shared understanding of individual working styles and communication preferences.
  • Strengthen communication and collaboration within teams.
  • Help leaders and teams play to their strengths while using differences constructively.
  • Improve team effectiveness and day-to-day working relationships.

With more senior teams, the emphasis shifts to more collective leadership, organisation-wide communication, team ways of working and navigating live challenges through the 4 different Insights lenses. 

Insights can also be included in leadership and management development programmes to support leaders to become more self-aware, understand the impact of their style on others and strengthen communication. 

Profiles can also form part of Executive and Leadership Coaching sessions, providing a personalised framework for exploring the opportunities and challenges facing an individual leader. This might include navigating stakeholder relationships, adapting to a new role, strengthening leadership impact, or working through specific team, people or organisational issues. 

 

Our offer

Individual profiles

For leaders and managers who want a clearer understanding of how they work and relate to others. This includes a personalised Insights Discovery profile, an introductory workshop to bring the model to life, and an optional 1:1 debrief, or optional series of coaching sessions, focused on applying the insights to current priorities.

Team sessions

Insights Discovery team sessions combining profiles with a facilitated workshop focused on how the team works together in practice - particularly in meetings, decision-making and day-to-day communication and collaboration.

Senior team workshops

Insights Discovery sessions designed for leadership teams, with a focus on how the group: leads collectively; communicates within the team and its external stakeholders; and navigates decisions and challenges together.

Integration into wider programmes

Often used as a foundation within broader leadership development or team development work to support with leadership style, communication, and working with stakeholders. Some clients also incorporate Insights sessions into their their onboarding programmes.

Why Sweetmans & Partners?

  • Extensive experience working with leadership teams and complex organisations
  • Coaching-led facilitation, focused on practical application
  • Comfortable working with leaders and teams at different levels and in a range of organisations
  • Takes a straightforward, grounded approach - light on theory and minimising jargon
  • Designed around your unique context and desired outcomes

Client Testimonials

Insights Discovery has been hugely valuable to the business during our recent growth. It’s helped raise individual and collective awareness; improved cross-team working and provided a framework for individual & team development. Sweetmans’ practical and interactive approach, with a focus on translating learning into actions, has been a key part of this success.

CPO

Renewable Energy Business

The awareness built around each other’s preferences has already made a positive difference in how we work together… helping people appreciate different working styles and adapt their communication.

National Director

Charity

Sweetmans delivered a fun and insightful session at our Partner Conference which was really well received and has provided us with a common language as a business to celebrate the power of difference and ensure effective working practices across our senior leaders.

Managing Partner

National Law Firm

The Insights sessions were incredibly helpful and genuinely thought‑provoking. It was particularly valuable to work with someone impartial, who created space for open and constructive reflection. The sessions supported greater awareness and provided a strong foundation for improved communication and collaboration within the team.

General Manager

Charity

Get started

If you’re considering using Insights for your team, leadership community, or as part of a wider development programme, we’d be happy to help you shape something that meets your specific needs.

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