Day: July 4, 2011

BETTER QUESTIONS, BETTER INSIGHTS, BETTER DECISIONS

Our aim is that through High Performacne & Inner Game Coaching, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY® and Facilitation we enable an individual, teams and organisations to develop their full potential.

Performance = potential-interference
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.


LEGO® Serious Play

A passionate and practical process for building confidence, commitment and insight.

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.


ALCHEMISTS

“What sets ALCHEMISTS apart as leaders is their ability to renew or even reinvent themselves and their organisations in historically significant ways.”

UNIQUELY DESIGNED FOR BUSINESS OWNERS, CEO’S, MD’S OF PRIVATELY HELD COMPANIES TO INSPIRE YOU TO WORK ON YOUR BUSINESS AND YOURSELF

WHO AM I ? WHAT DO I WANT? & WHY?

WHO ARE WE? WHAT DO WE WANT? & WHY?

HOW WILL I LEAD THE CHANGE REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE WHAT I WANT?

The ALCHEMISTS are exclusive inspiring high performance peer membership groups for Business Owners,  CEO’s, MD’s & Entrepreneurs of Privately held small and medium sized companies. Created to help you unlock the potential in yourself and your business. The groups are your secure environments, to belong to, to take that time out to be with others who “know how it feels to walk or have walked in your shoes”. To raise your game, to build better value, to talk about what you want to talk about, to practice, gain feedback, be challenged, pushed, questioned to adjust and retry, before you implement in the real world. Make Better Decisions, Be a Better Leader for your organisation and gain Better Performance, therefore better value, better confidence and better odds for success.

The EMERGING ALCHEMISTS  are exclusive inspiring high performance peer membership groups for, Executives & Entrepreneurs, Directors (Finance, Operations, IT, direct reports etc) who are on the same and supporting journey. Created to help you unlock the potential in yourself and your business. The groups are your secure environments, to belong to, to take that time out to be with others who “know how it feels to walk or have walked in your shoes”. To raise your game, to build better value, to talk about what you want to talk about, to practice, gain feedback, be challenged, pushed, questioned to adjust and retry, before you implement in the real world. Make Better Decisions, be a Better Leader for your organisation and gain Better Performance, therefore better value, better confidence and better odds for success.

The MODERN ELDER ALCHEMISTS are are exclusive inspiring high performance peer membership groups for (EX) Business Owners, CEO, MD & Owner Managers, Executives & Entrepreneurs who have unlocked their potential, created the choices for themelves and their organisations, exited and are on their NEXT  journey to again achieve their full potential. They are your secure environments, to belong to, to take that time out to be with others who “know how it feels to walk or have walked in your shoes”. To raise your game, to talk about what you want to talk about, to practice, gain feedback, be challenged, pushed, questioned to adjust and retry, before you implement in the real world. Make Better Decisions,be a Better Leader for  your organisation and gain Better Performance, therefore better value, better confidence and better odds for success.

As a member of the ALCHEMISTS FORUMS you get to TALK about you, TALK about your business, TALK about the stuff you need to TALK about with people who CARE and you can TRUST. They will listen and give you the, challenge, feedback, advice, input and time to help you and your business achieve your “full potential”.

All the members know and understand how tough it is at the top and that when you own or run a business, its often more challenging and more lonely than one cares to admit. (it goes with the territory) The pressure of even the smallest decisions can have wide reaching implications never mind the BIG ones.

As a member you belong to a trusted group of your peers who will work with you as a business leader to help you explore, make better decisions that get more out of yourself and your business. IF you are up for the challenge.

As a member of the ALCHEMISTS FORUMS you will have the TIME OUT to WORK ON your business and ON YOURSELF to make better decisions, Lead your business from Good to Great, because as members we care and we dare to achieve our full potential as well.

All in a secure, private and confidential membership group, that expects the same from you.

Be a high-performance Corporate Athlete who is in Peak Performance as a CEO, MD & Leader

The “ALCHEMISTS’ FORUMS” – are an Invitation-only CEO & MD Peer group for Executives, Directors & Entrepreneurs to help gain the WISDOM, solve problems and make better smarter decisions and choices and BUILD GREAT BUSINESSES

QED – Question, Explore, Decide

If you are a High-Performance athlete or team you get to practise 95% of the time and  perform 5% of the time. You would take time to work ON and improve yourself and your game to ensure you are at the top of your game. You would take time to be coached and be with others of the same high-performance mind-set.

However, In business it is the reverse, if you are lucky.