How is the Insights Discovery Team Wheel constructed?

Overall there are seventy-two insights discovery team wheel positions all of which have a unique nuance of behaviour. Everyone who completes a Discovery profile will experience a certain amount of type mobility, but at the time of completion the individual's team wheel position is represented by a coloured pie chart and is a result of their conscious and less conscious graph (the brightly coloured pie chart represents the conscious (how their behaviour might be seen at work), and the more transparent pie chart represents the less conscious graph (the more instinctive version).

On the team wheel, we see the sixteen further divided into forty-eight, where, for example, the Observing Coordinator splits into three segments or rings – Observing Coordinator (Focussed), Observing Coordinator (Classic), and Observing Coordinator (Accommodating).

All these types add up to create the full insights discovery team wheel, with each of the seventy-two positions representing a different colour combination. Jung (1921) suggested that additional subgroups or subtypes would be empirically possible: “Similar subgroups could be made of other functions, as in the case of intuition, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional and sensory aspect. In this way, a large number could be established, each new division becoming increasingly subtle… One could increase this number at will if each of the functions were split into three subgroups, which would not be impossible empirically” (Jung, 1921, p. 523).

1-16. The Insights Discovery Team Wheel illustrates the conscious dominant Jungian preferences and their attitudes. The other preferences remain in the unconscious. Types 1-16 may be referred to as Focussed types since just one colour (or function) plays a dominant role. Focussed types make up about 3% of the population that are of definable type. If the conscious persona is Focussed, then the less conscious persona is Accommodating.

21-36 may be referred to as Classic types since they represent two dominant and auxiliary functions that play an important role in type performance. For example, position 33 represents a strong preference for Blue, with Green being slightly weaker, while position 32 has a strong preference for Green, with Blue being slightly weaker. The former is designated as an Observing Coordinator, and the latter is designated a Supporting Coordinator. This combination has two strong colours above the midline. The classic position makes up about 54% of the population of those who have completed a profile. If the conscious persona is Classic, the less conscious persona will likely be as well.

By proceeding one step further into the centre of the Discovery Wheel, we reach a level that represents three consciously preferred energies, with dominant, auxiliary and tertiary functions in consciousness. These types, 41-56, are referred to as Accommodating types. Accommodating has three colour energies in consciousness and makes up about 43% of the population that have completed a profile. If the conscious persona is Accommodating, then the less conscious persona is Focussed. For example,53 and 52 represent an Accommodating Coordinator, the former having strong ordered preferences for Blue, Green and Yellow energies and the latter having strong ordered preferences for Green, Blue and Red colour energies.