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October 5, 2021

Boosting Creativity During a Global Crisis: Strategies for Sustaining Creative Energy

As part of our nature, humans are born into the world with two innate qualities that promote survival and growth. All humans are wired to find and follow patterns. We are innate conformists. This bias towards conformity has many advantages. It promotes cooperation, establishes norms, enables learning, and saves
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October 5, 2021

Understanding Implementers: A FourSight Workshop Insight

It was six hours before the big workshop in Las Vegas. 88 people were signed up, and less than half had done their FourSight assessment. The group activity I planned to facilitate hinged on knowing people’s profiles. It wasn’t going to work with half the results.
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October 5, 2021

The Power of 'How Might We' in Innovation and Problem Solving

“How might we…” Those are 3 of the most powerful words in innovation. Learn a turn of language that can transform a complaint into a question that draws fresh ideas and new thinking.
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September 24, 2021

Surfacing Cognitive Diversity: A FourSight Case Study at a Major Children's Hospital

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
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September 24, 2021

Building a Culture of Innovation in Government: A FourSight Case Study at Health Canada

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.
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July 30, 2021

Enhancing Team Performance: 12 Ways FourSight Accelerates Team Development

In a team building session with 25 members of a leading French luxury brand, Paris-based facilitator Patrick Duhoux found a simple way to help team members understand their differences so they could work together better and speed their path to high performance.
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July 12, 2021

Innovation Driven — How UPS is Living its Strategy

Like so many corporate leaders, Anne Price wanted more innovation, but wasn’t sure how to get it. As Director of Global Marketing Capabilities at UPS, Price wanted a way to help UPS marketers live up to their new corporate strategy: “Innovation driven.” Her solution came in the form of a training course, inspired by
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March 11, 2020

Understanding the Role of FourSight Profiles in the Hiring Process

Recently a FourSight facilitator wrote in the following question: Can I use FourSight profiles for hiring? —Harry
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February 18, 2020

Revamping Strategic Planning: A FourSight Case Study at Hanson Dodge

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
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