Business Performance

In these monthly newsletters, we often suggest that asking questions helps you uncover someone’s reality. In this episode, Robin Charbit highlights another powerful benefit of getting curious and asking questions. We hope it’s helpful!

Have you ever worked with a motivated, ambitious and productive employee who could use some help with their leadership style? Or have you gotten this feedback yourself? This month’s episode explores how insight paves the way. We hope you enjoy it.

Have you been perplexed by another person’s behavior? Have you wondered what to do or how to intervene? Have you been at a loss in certain situations? In this month’s newsletter, Robin Charbit explains why you get stuck and shares a helpful yet simple strategy.

“R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to me.” We are all likely familiar with this song by Aretha Franklin. You might know what respect means to you, but do you know what it means to others? This month’s newsletter explains how insights about your mind can help even though everyone will have a unique perspective.

We hope you are enjoying the summer. (Apologies to our Southern Hemisphere friends.) By now, we bet you are all seasoned veterans of online meetings. At Insight Principles, this transition was initially awkward and unwelcome. However, as Robin Charbit describes below, we adapted, and were ultimately surprised by how well our online work evolved.

Can you imagine a workplace without PowerPoint? We can. While an interesting tool, the way PowerPoint is often used stifles the creative process that helps us solve our most vexing problems.

This month’s newsletter addresses a common but unproductive dynamic between people who tend to be critical and those who tend to be sensitive to criticism. An understanding of the mind can soothe the tension and help us learn from one another.

Are certain jobs more worthy of respect? Must you like your job in order to do it well? Does your job determine your self-worth? Listen as we address these interesting questions.

Last month we spoke about the limitations of listening for agreement. Our newsletter inspired one of our readers to share his insights on listening. We love getting these contributions – please keep them coming. And if you have suggestions for topics, please send them along.

Isn’t agreement a good thing? Sure, but if you listen for agreement you might miss what is being said. Read on to learn more about the value of listening without your own ideas on your mind. Happy Listening!

What’s your personality? Does it matter? Do you need to know the personality type of your coworkers in order to communicate effectively? Listen to how the principles behind how the mind works shed light on these questions.

This month we are addressing a topic of great interest to leaders in companies all over the globe. Listen on for our take on diversity and inclusion.

“Everything changes and nothing stands still.” Insights and Implications quoted Bob Dylan last month. This month it’s Heraclitus but the topic is still change. Specifically, we discuss helping others through change. Listen on as we help you help others.

We were thrilled to receive this story from one of our program participants. She shared her personal discovery of the power of insight.

This month is the second part of our series about safety in the workplace. Below, we address how to intervene with others when you see a potential hazard.