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Through the use of coaching and experiential learning, we will enable individuals, teams, organisations and communities to begin and sustain the growth, change and potential they desire.

We are here to help and inspire you on your journey to what you want out of life, both personally and professionally, your goals, your desires, your passions, your dreams, your success.

True change begins within, it is owned and chosen by you ….

Change your thinking … Realise your dreams … Shape your future the way you want it to be …

Company Profile

THE INSIGHTFACTORY was founded by Alan Branagh

Born out of the years in Information Technology where the success and failure of technology change was always dependant on an individuals ability and desire to embrace the new world.

Through Coaching & High Performance Management we enable behavioural and cultural transformation, high performance and sustainable change.

For us learning is FUN and IMAGINATION, a mixture of inbound and outbound interaction to engage all the senses and coaching is at the heart of our approach.

Models, metaphors and imagination at work.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is an innovative, experiential process designed to enhance business performance. Based on research that shows that this kind of hands-on, minds-on learning produces a deeper, more meaningful understanding of the world and its possibilities, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is an efficient, practical and effective process that works for everyone within an organization. Participants come away with skills to communicate more effectively, to engage their imaginations more readily, and to approach their work with increased confidence, commitment and insight.

The hand is connected to the brain.

When personal desire drives you to learn something using your hands, a complicated process takes over that generates a powerful emotional charge. Using your hands “releases” thoughts that are stuck in your head. What you learn in the process of creating 3-D even 4-D metaphors sinks much deeper into your mind than what you would learn through mere words or two-dimensional imagery. Thoughts that are “built” tend to be expressed in greater detail and are more easily understood.

Constructing and communicating through LEGO SERIOUS PLAY allows you to address complex issues in an engaging way where ideas and scenarios are expressed and explored through the shared language of metaphors. The 3-D landscape you build using LEGO bricks and the LEGO language provides valuable insight into how your company works and how it connects to the outside world.

It’s play with a purpose.

The purpose of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is to explore the relationships and connections between people and their world, to observe the dynamics both internal and external, to explore various hypothetical scenarios, and to gain awareness of the possibilities. Building landscape models with LEGO bricks, giving them meaning through storymaking, and playing-out various possible scenarios, deepens understanding, sharpens insight, and socially “bonds” together the group who “plays” together.

Why does work need play?

• Play helps release thoughts that are locked in the head and the heart.
• You see things differently. Ideas come to life with more concrete detail than ideas expressed through just talking.
• Discussion during play happens on a more level playing field.
• The group at play thrives only when everybody participates, so frustrations are reduced, team coherence and direction is more solid.
• Play lets you experiment, explore and take risks with ideas without fearing consequences that might happen in “real life.”
• You generate a wider and more imaginative range of possibilities during play than you would during a traditional business meeting.
• People at play are more present, more engaged, more passionate and better performers.

Why does play work?

• Play is special: if it’s routine it’s not play.
• Play is voluntary: it can’t be coerced or mandated.
• Play is imaginative: you can suspend the rules of the real world.
• Play isn’t explicitly productive: direct consequences don’t matter.
• Play is unlimited and delimited: play exists for its own sake and is different from work.
• Play happens at an agreed upon location: but it can be anywhere.
• Play has its own rules: it is not constrained by the rules of work.

For More Information…

To find out more about how InsightFactory can help you orgainsation utilise LEGO SERIOUS PLAY® please contact us.

Strategy Development Programme

Developing the Strategic Planning Capability of Senior Management

Managers in most NI companies tend to get caught up in the day to day running of the business, and very often the development of a strategy is something only dealt with in a crisis situation.

However, Invest NI’s experience is that companies grow faster when they have a sound strategy and a management team with strategic development skills.

Benefits

A good strategy, gives the following benefits:

• Management and employees have a clear and shared understanding of where the business is going
• The company is better prepared to adapt to ever increasing changes in a competitive business environment
• A strategic approach will highlight company strengths and areas for improvement
• Successful implementation of a well thought-out strategy will increase competitiveness, growth and profits

How it Works

The strategy expert selected by Invest NI will work with you to tailor the most appropriate help, selecting from:

• One to one on-site work with your management team
• Workshops with other senior managers on a range of strategy development issues
• Best Practice Seminars given by International Strategy Gurus
• The strategy expert will work with you over a period of time to develop your own company’s strategy, and to take you through the initial stages of implementation.

• We address both “Intrinsic” and “Extrinsic” motivation
• Our change methodology addresses:-

A = Activators for change

B = Behaviours desires by the organisation, team or individual

C = Consequences that are positive for all concerned.

• Behaviour is a function of its consequences
• This is a systemic, data-based approach to managing people.
• It employs measurement, feedback and positive reinforcement to
  achieve specific behaviours and results.
• Uses coaching at the core of the process
• Answers 2 fundamental questions1. Why people do what they do2. Why people don’t do what they should.

Results…

Within 6 months of implementing High Performance Management

• Manufacturer of Electrical Distribution Equipment
• 95 % productivity improvement in the Capstan Shop
• 77 % productivity improvement in the Light Machine Shop
• 26 % productivity improvement in the Shot Blast Section
• 20 % productivity improvement in the Press Shop
• 37 % reduction in work in progress in the Ring Main Section

The Coaching Process

• Free Introductory meeting to assess the coaching contract.
• The contract will commit you to working with the coach for 6 (1 hourly) sessions over a 3 month period (dates to be agreed by Client and Coach)
• Additional coaching sessions can be arranged during this 3 month period.
• On completion of the initial 3 month period, If required, the coaching sessions will convert to a month-to-month basis with 2 sessions per month.
• Rates agreed on application.

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Course Purpose

To help you establish new and powerful ways of creating and developing ‘High Performance’ teams and individuals.

Course Style

The course will be experiential and practical, you will have the opportunity to work on your own ‘real’ work issues and experience working together on relevant ‘team’ simulations, which will vividly highlight the barriers, and pitfalls to individual and team performance at work.

Objectives

By the end of the course you will: -

• Clearly understand and have experienced the factors that restrict and sabotage team and individual performance and potential.
• Clearly understand the essential factors, which enable teams and individuals to achieve their potential and operate at ‘High Performance’ level.
• Be able to apply principles and core skills of team and individual coaching, which raise awareness, increase self-responsibility and motivation.
• Have developed your capability to generate great performance from your teams and individuals.

Results

Over the coming weeks and month the course can achieve the following changes:-

• a management style, which increases the morale, enjoyment and confidence of all staff in order that the climate is positive.
• continual use of a coaching approach to constantly develop the skills of everyone at whatever level.
• individuals achieving a higher level of performance.

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Types of Personal Coaching

• Tele – Coaching – One to One coaching by Telephone
• Facetime – Coaching – One to One coaching Face to Face
• Email – Coaching
• Career – Coaching
• Raising Your Game – Coaching

Coaching Principles

Coaching is not therapy or counseling and coaching in no way replaces the advice or diagnosis of a healthcare professional.

The results of coaching sessions are dependent on your own willingness to follow through with the suggestions, guidance and instruction which the coach will give you; the responsibility for making a difference is yours alone, and the coach can only facilitate this process.

The long term results of coaching depend on you focusing on what you want rather than on what you don’t want.

The Wheel of Life is used to focus the areas of exploration.

The Coaching Process

• Free Introductory meeting to assess the coaching contract.
• The contract will commit you to working with the coach for 6 (1 hourly) sessions over a 3 month period (dates to be agreed by Client and Coach)
• Additional coaching sessions can be arranged during this 3 month period.
• On completion of the initial 3 month period, If required, the coaching sessions will convert to a month-to-month basis with 2 sessions per month.
• Rates agreed on application.

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Executive coaching addresses:

• Leadership Style
• Strategy & Logistics
• Politics
• Prioritisation
• Relationships
• Rethinking and defining the future
• Sustaining Change
• Team Working / Working together
• Personal Challenges
• Job
• Career
• Work/Life Balance

The Coaching Process

• Free Introductory meeting to assess the relationship fit
• The contract will commit you to working with the coach for 6 (2 hourly) sessions over a 3 month period (dates to be agreed by Client and Coach)
• Additional coaching sessions can be arranged during this 3 month period
• On completion of the initial 3 month period, If required, the coaching sessions will convert to a month-to-month basis with 2 sessions per month
• Rates agreed on application

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• Engages Companies, Teams and Individuals.
• It is an integration of learning from both sport and the workplace.
• It develops awareness of behaviours and there impacts
• Empowers teams and individuals
• Enables ownership, responsibility and choice for all concerned
• Enables one to look “outside” the box.
• Provides Options and solutions rather than problems
• Allows one to move from “Cop to Coach”
• Based of the “Inner Game” teachings of Timothy Gallwey and Sir John Whitmore

Do you want to perform better at work?

• Achieve promotion
• Increase earnings
• Build stronger relationships
• Overachieve on your objectives
• Successfully complete projects

Do you want to perform better in Sport?

• Golf
• Tennis
• Skiing
• Rugby
• Squash

Talk to Your Inner Game Coach…

Call InsightFactory on +44 1784 481020.