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Jerry Folz leads a team of a dozen small business owners who meet monthly to develop themselves as leaders. Every month, Jerry starts his team meeting the same way, by calling on the host to share the team’s purpose. The host, often a new member, invariably jerks to attention. Everyone else smiles knowingly, as they

A fast-growing HR firm based in Sydney was stunned when revenues suddenly plummeted. LinkedIn had just entered the Australian market. The HR firm had heard of LinkedIn; the tech start-up had launched in the United States seven years earlier, but the firm’s management team had been so focused on growing revenues, they

Dorte Nielsen, founder of the Center for Creative Thinking in Copenhagen, gave the FourSight assessment to the faculty of a Danish high school. She gathered all the teachers in the cafeteria, handed out their results, and asked them what they had learned from their thinking preferences. One teacher stood up and said,

As a team leader, you have lots to do. You have goals to meet and people to manage. You have to make assignments, clarify roles, communicate, fix problems, build systems, track trends, set strategy, and put out countless large and small fires along the way. Oh, plus your own work.

Two years after training, the organization could still measure the positive impact. In 2013, Brett Richards, PhD wanted to test his new culture survey, which measured an organization’s growth potential. He found willing participants at Sheridan College, one of Canada's largest colleges. Nearly a hundred administrators

Hear how one team expert enhances two of business's most popular process models by using FourSight to understand the people side.

A tale of two employees: She was the best of employees. He was…well, let’s just say he didn’t last.

When he landed a job at a major East Coast children's hospital, Chris Grivas was determined to make the right diagnosis— not for a patient, but for the organization itself. Chris was hired as an internal organizational development consultant. He wanted to get a read on the health of the organization and its 1,500

Building a Culture of Innovation – One Team at a Time People don’t often say the words “regulatory agency” and “innovation” in the same breath. But those people haven’t met Ruth Kennedy.