This month, we had the pleasure of delivering Insights Discovery to 58 people across multiple organisations through the Insights Foundation, the charitable arm of the Insights Group, dedicated to bringing self-awareness and personal development to organisations that are changing lives every day. For us, it was a genuinely joyful few days’ work.
One of those organisations was the Surrey Cricket Foundation. The Foundation uses cricket as a vehicle for community development, working with young people, schools, and other communities across Surrey. The people who do that work care about it deeply, which is exactly the kind of team that gets a lot from a day like this.
What the Day Looked Like
Our personality workshops aren’t presentations. The session moves through individual reflection, paired conversation, and group activity, and the energy in the room tends to build as it goes. People arrive slightly unsure of what to expect and leave having had conversations they didn’t quite anticipate.
For a team like the Surrey Cricket Foundation, the team wheel moment, seeing everyone’s colour energies mapped together for the first time, tends to generate both recognition and laughter. People see patterns they’ve sensed but never named. They understand why certain conversations have felt effortful, or why the team naturally moves quickly in some areas and more slowly in others.
The group activities within our team capability workshops give that recognition somewhere to go. Rather than sitting with a personal insight in isolation, participants work through what it means for how they communicate, how they make decisions together, and how they want to lead and support each other going forward.
Why This Work Matters Beyond Corporate Settings
Much of the corporate team training in the UK that draws on Insights Discovery happens within large organisations with dedicated L&D budgets. The Insights Foundation exists because the value of this work isn’t sector-specific, and access to it shouldn’t be either.
Teams in not-for-profit organisations carry real pressure. Roles are broad, resources are stretched, and the personal investment people bring to mission-led work means that how the team relates to one another genuinely matters. Leadership workshops for teams in this context often surface things that have been sitting under the surface for a while, and create the kind of shared language that makes those things easier to talk about going forward.
If you know an organisation that could benefit from the Gift of Insights, we’d love to hear from you.
Performance Catalyst is a leadership and team-effectiveness consultancy based in Canterbury, Kent, working with organisations across the UK and internationally.