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  Building a good team is harder than it looks.  People’s personalities, approaches, backgrounds, and styles don’t always line up.  In fact, they don’t usually line up.  If your team struggles to collaborate (and most teams do), team-building activities can help.  But what’s the best team-building approach for your

What happens when your team's thinking preferences are really lopsided? When I was in grad school, everyone in my class took the FourSight Thinking Profile.

While teams can lead to great accomplishments in the workplace, they can also be unproductive. More often than not, the difference is dictated by how team members relate to one another. Teams that collaborate well and take advantage of each other’s strengths perform well, while teams afflicted by interpersonal

Do you know what Lego, Google, and Tesla have in common? Aside from being wildly successful, these businesses place a strong emphasis on teamwork and innovation. When teams are able to communicate and work together effectively and bring their unique knowledge and skills together in pursuit of the same goal, that’s

We’ve all experienced it: group meetings where you sincerely felt like you just wasted an hour of your life. Group projects that went nowhere fast. The final results weren’t that great because interpersonal conflicts took over. These occurrences are not uncommon, but they’re definitely unfortunate—especially when

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

Recently a FourSight facilitator wrote in the following question: Can I use FourSight profiles for hiring? —Harry

Ad agency president, Stacie Boney, knew she wanted to make a big improvement in her team’s approach to annual and quarterly strategic planning sessions. Boney heads up Hanson Dodge, a full-service ad agency based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that serves clients like the Utah Office of Tourism, KEEN Utility and Stanley

Developers are the rarest of the four profiles. Only 6% of people in our database are single-preference Developers.