Most teams already have a sense of how they work together – who drives the pace, who asks the questions, who needs time to think before they speak. What an Insights Discovery (Colours Profile) personality workshop does is give that collective understanding a shared language.
We use Insights Discovery as a central tool across our team work at Performance Catalyst. The framework is built on Jungian psychology and uses four colour energies, Fiery Red, Sunshine Yellow, Earth Green, and Cool Blue, to describe how people prefer to think, communicate, and make decisions. Each person receives an individual colours profile during the workshop, which maps their preferences across these energies and describes their working style in some detail.
In a group setting, though, something else becomes visible: the organisation personality. When you map a whole team’s profiles together, patterns emerge. Some teams skew heavily towards one or two colour energies; others are more evenly spread. Neither is better or worse, but both tell you something important about how that group is likely to approach problems, handle conflict, or respond to change.
What Actually Happens in the Room
Personality workshops built around Insights Discovery aren’t about labelling people. The most useful conversations tend to happen when individuals sit with their profile and recognise themselves in it and then start to see their colleagues differently too. A team that understands why one person withdraws when decisions are rushed, or why another becomes frustrated when plans keep shifting, is better equipped to work through those moments rather than around them.
We design our workshops to move between individual reflection and team discussion, so the day has both a personal dimension and a collective one. The team wheel – a visual representation of where everyone sits across the colour energies – often generates the most honest conversation of the session. It makes visible what people have usually only sensed.
As one client put it: “The power from the team graphic was phenomenal. It created talking points, a shared language and encouraged openness and curiosity.”
What This Looks Like in Practice
The value of a colours profile isn’t in the profile itself, it’s in what a team does with it. We work with organisations across sectors, from large corporates to not-for-profit organisations through our Insights Foundation work, and in every case the most durable impact comes from teams that leave the workshop with both a clearer self-understanding and a concrete sense of what to do differently.
That might mean a leadership team recognising a collective blind spot. It might mean two colleagues finding a more productive way to have a difficult conversation. It might mean a new manager understanding their natural style and where they’ll need to adapt it.
The colours profile is a starting point. The workshop is where it becomes useful.
If you’re thinking about running a personality workshop for your team, or want to understand more about what an Insights Discovery session with Performance Catalyst looks like, get in touch.