As specialists in people development and the psychology of relationships, weāve helped hundreds of thousands of people over the years to become greater team workers, leaders, and customer service ambassadors, and weāve implemented organisational culture change in organisations across the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors.
Over the past few months, The Colour Works Challenge has focused on a variety of areas; the Leadership Challenge aimed to help people identify and utilise their leadership skills more effectively, and the Mental Health challenge encouraged participants to identify the signs of stress and create a healthy workplace culture.
This month, the spotlight is on you.
Throughout the week youāll be participating in five activities designed to help you unleash your potential and work more effectively with others through the lens of the Insights Discovery Model. Weāve laid out five activities over the next five days.
Day One Ā | Ā Day Two Ā | Ā Day Three Ā | Ā Day Four Ā | Ā Day Five
Introducing the Insights Discovery Model
The Insights Discovery model brings self-awareness to teams, leaders, and organisations across the globe. The Colour Works are platinum partners of Insights (we sell A LOT of Discovery profiles) and have been working closely with Insights for over 20 years.
The Discovery model uses four colour energies to describe distinct personality preferences. Dating back to 500 BC, Greek physician and philosopher Hippocrates identified four groups of characteristics which he labelled the āFour Humoursā. Once an individual’s āhumourā had been identified, Hippocrates believed he could predict their behaviour in any given scenario.
Many philosophers, researchers, and psychologists have expanded on this theory over the years until a Swiss Doctor called Carl Jung grounded our modern understanding of personality and published his work on psychological types in 1921.
In the early ā90s Insights Learning and Development took the work of Jung and set out with the sole purpose to make the theory of behavioural psychology accessible, immediately impactful, and incredibly memorable. Insightsā vision was to help individuals, teams, and leaders be more self-aware, build better working relationships, and ignite corporate spirit.
To achieve this, and along with world-class personal profiles, they presented Jung’s theory of preferences into four colour energies, believing that although we can be all four, we typically have a dominant or preferred style. The four colour energies that describe behaviour are:
- Fiery Red
- Earth Green
- Cool Blue
- Sunshine YellowĀ Ā
You canĀ find out more about each of these colour energies here.
The 5 Day Colour Works Challenge
By identifying your dominant, secondary, tertiary, and least preferred colour energy we can understand so much more about our strengths, weaknesses, communication styles, perceptions, biases, and blockers to success. Another huge benefit of the model is that once weāve acknowledged our style, we can recognise the colours in others, making relationships relatable and more meaningful.
The Discovery Model is even more effective when we start mapping the dynamic of teams within a work environment. An in-depth understanding of how your team works can create a greater appreciation of cognitive and behavioural diversity and improve communication, decision making, and the effectiveness of your meetings. This then creates a vibrant working culture that everyone can be proud to be a part of.
As this challenge is all about you, we wonāt be focussing on your team so much. To get the most out of this experience, weād highly recommend getting your colleagues involved! You can share the challenge with them using the hashtag: #ColourWorksChallenge. We want to see all of you getting involved so be sure to tag us on social media!
Over five days, weāll be helping you increase your self-awareness through the Discovery Model. Youāll partake in activities designed to help you identify and understand more about your dominant colour energy, and experience what that means to you when working with others.
Without further ado, letās break down your daily activities.Ā