Backed by research and built for scale, FourSight is a collaborative problem solving system that helps teams work better together to achieve better results.
Our research shows that it takes four types of thinking to solve a problem. Teams that use all types of thinking when problem solving achieve better business results, but our preferences for certain types of thinking can get in the way.
The new FourSight Online platform delivers an assessment, tools, and training to help teams think better together.
Organizations that use FourSight get better performance and happier teams.
Independent researchers found teams with FourSight perform better over time in problem solving, innovation, and collaboration.
By helping teams understand their thinking preferences and how to work better together, FourSight helps teams reduce the interpersonal friction that can get in the way of performance.
People gain confidence when they see how they naturally contribute to the team. They also get tools to stay engaged in areas of low preference.
FourSight teaches people to value rather than avoid people who think differently. Training helps teams learn to leverage differences for better business results.
The beauty giant transformed team outcomes with this team challenge program in Australia.
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With its new course “Innovate Like an Entrepreneur,” UPS delivered innovation skills to marketing teams and focused employees’ problem solving skills on real UPS challenges.
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Independent research conducted by a legendary inventor at IBM compared team structures and discovered the best way to train and sustain an innovative team.
Read the Case StudyThis book is a quick read for busy leaders who want actionable ways to build better teams with the people they have. Forbes calls it a book to “maximize team potential.” FourSight partners, Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller, share stories, research and actionable insights from their decades of team experience, to help you build teams that get results.
The Innovative Team is a business parable that combines practical problem-solving tips with a story that explains how the FourSight framework helps members of a team expand their effectiveness when they learn to appreciate their own thinking profiles. Watch the "book trailer."
"The power of a good story to teach us important life and business lessons is strikingly evident in this enjoyable, realistic, and practical business tale. It's two books in one, really—both a fictional story and a factual tutorial on how you can move a group intentionally through the important stages of innovation. When you read The Innovative Team you'll travel down the path of breakthrough thinking and experience the many twists and turns, ups and downs, detours and speed bumps of a group that's challenged to solve a tough business problem. At the completion of the journey, you'll be treated to a master class in creative problem solving. You'll learn practical tools, valuable tips, and important concepts that you can apply to your own innovative team. It's a must-read for all leaders who want to improve the ways in which their groups find new and sustainable solutions to the ever-increasing challenges that organizations face."
—Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge; Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
The Innovative Team, co-authored by Chris Grivas and Gerard Puccio, offers a great resource for anyone interested in kick-starting innovation. Read an excerpt.