Leading & Developing High Performance

The 8 situational building blocks for motivation

Andy Britnell — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:06:07 +0000

Motivation doesn’t just happen. It’s the leader’s responsibility to put in place the building blocks for high performance. There are 8 situational factors that need to be put in place and are key to getting it right. 1. Have high expectations If you expect someone to do badly, they probably will. If your expectations are [...]

The Cool Blue Manager

Andy Britnell — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:30:09 +0000

With personality there is no right or wrong, but with leadership there definitely is a right way! Understand this way, and how your personality colours your leadership style, then you begin to make a significant difference. It is one more reason why we start all our Leading & Developing High Performance training with the Insights [...]

Observable differences between Cool Blue and Earth Green preferences

Andy Britnell — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:37:27 +0000

When working as a team you discover that the observable differences between colour energy preferences become more acute. It reminds us how the Insights Discovery colour energies are inextricably linked with leadership. A while ago, on a pouring wet day, two groups of Insights practitioners came together for an outdoor challenge at a water park [...]

The Earth Green Manager

Andy Britnell — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:23:34 +0000

To continue our series of blogs about personality, and how your personality colours your leadership style, we present to you the Earth Green manager. This comes from the Insights Discovery model which is where we start all our Leading & Developing High Performance training. Todays post has been written by Ali Stewart who is the [...]

The Sunshine Yellow Manager

Andy Britnell — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:15:30 +0000

Following on from our post on the Fiery Red manager I am delighted to present a post from Nicky Cowling on the Sunshine Yellow manager. Nicky has lots of sunshine yellow energy and has teamed up with another Insights practitioner, Judith Yates, to form a company called Good Day Yellow! What is Sunshine Yellow energy? [...]