Using lessons learned from the world of elite sport the Spotlight profiling tool combines the psychology of behavioural styles and mindset to create performance preferences.
This strengths-based model is used to enhance an individual’s self awareness and develop their adaptability. By developing a greater understanding of self, method, and mind, individuals can become more effective when working with others and enhance their performance under pressure.
The Spotlight COPE/FLEX framework also helps the team to establish common language and effective self-coaching practices.
Spotlight starts with a profile, develops into a framework and then becomes a way of thinking. Here are some of the ways we use it to drive teams to breakout performance.
Spotlight bridges the gap between self-awareness and action, providing concrete ways to develop adaptability and increase performance.
In a Spotlight session we work with the Spotlight frameworks to explore individual performance preferences and work through your profile to develop new perspectives and tactics. It's relaxed, informal, and confidential. And it always has an impact on performance.
Using insights from your Spotlight team profiles we create Team Maps to plot the collective preferences of a team. This powerful visualisation showcases your natural strengths and helps to explore how to leverage these strengths to best effect, whilst simultaneously acknowledging perspectives that may not be a natural consideration for your team and need to be consciously developed.
Team Maps also create an understanding of how a team may need to flex to achieve its goals and opens group coaching and development conversations with a common language around strengths, overplaying, and 'wriggle room'.
We use Team Maps to:
Form Team Strategies - Identify areas of strength and weakness, taking your team to the next level. Create thinking around what types of solutions might a team favour in the face of a challenge.
Develop Empty Chair Thinking - A powerful tool to identify your teams blind spots and develop prompts to explore perspectives that may be missing from your team and business.
Build Stronger Teams - Facilitate more adaptable thinking that makes the team more confident and resilient in their collective approach.
We use Spotlight team days to:
Build Psychological Safety - High performance is underpinned by psychological safety and is grown by making people feel safe to challenge and take risks.
Develop Self-awareness - Helping people link preferences to goals through accurate self-assessment, deeper self-knowledge, and self-development.
Promote Contextual Sensitivity - By using the frameworks to identify preferences in others, creating empathy, social sensitivity, and situational sensitivity.
Positive Outlook - Encouraging people to 'strengths stretch' through strengths focus, control, acceptance and confidence.
Adaptability - Helping people understand and see things in different ways through behavioural adaptability, cognitive flexibility, perspective-taking, and problem-solving.
Self-regulation - Exploring and understanding pressure triggers to help with self-management, self-control, and performing under pressure.
Interpersonal skills - Help people to frame messages to 'click' with others, manage difficult conversations, communicative adaptability, influence and interpersonal relations.
Team Effectiveness - Developing a shared understanding, team connection, strengths-based culture, cognitive diversity, collaboration and team unity.
Our team development days unite your team with a purpose and enhance levels of collaboration and adaptability.
These sessions are designed to bring together individual Spotlight profiles and put them in the context of your team’s challenge.
If you are about to engage in any of the following challenges then our team challenge days are designed to prime teams for success:
Team Challenge Days are best done in the outdoors. We theme the day around a rescue mission that puts your team in unfamiliar circumstances with newly acquired skills & demands that they perform under pressure. Challenges are adapted to ensure that there are suitable levels of challenge & support. This fires up team work and often exposes performance gaps that need to be closed. Lessons from the rescue mission are immediately put into practice as the team moves on to start planning for the upcoming business challenge.
At the end of a Team Challenge Day your team will be able to:
Our challenge days prime teams to take on a significant challenge. Think team performing rather than team building.
How well we are able to adapt mindset and behaviour to different situations is the key to sustained high performance. This adaptability takes practice.
