Insights Discovery

The Insights Discovery Team Wheel.

Insights Discovery creates a powerful learning experience for every individual who receives a personal profile and attends a subsequent workshop, but the learning doesn't just stop there!

Through the Insights Discovery Team Wheel, teams can receive an insightful overview of their collective dynamic. In this article, we will bring to life the various parts of the Insights Team Wheel.

Team Wheel Positions.

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).

The 72-Type Wheel.

The four colour energies of Insights Discovery blend into eight secondary types on the team wheel (Observer, Coordinator, Supporter, Helper, Inspirer, Motivator, Director, Reformer). These further sub-divide into sixteen, for example, the Coordinator splits into two segments – Observing Coordinator and Supporting Coordinator. The name of the adjacent type (Observer or Supporter), added as an adjective, describes its influence on the central type (Coordinator).

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).

A further twenty-four flank the forty-eight already mentioned. These are shown in the shaded sections and represent a group known as ‘Creative Types’.

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).

Focussed Behaviours.

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.

Classic Behaviours.

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.

Accommodating Behaviours.

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.

The Creative Type.

Jung was fascinated by the significance of unconscious elements. He concluded that within the group of people who are not a clear type, there exist a number of people for whom type stability is represented by conscious use of a normally unconscious inferior function. This combination is a normal expression of their personality. Jung referred to this as the Creative type, which is readily identifiable in Discovery as the opposing rational colour combinations of Fiery Red/Earth Green, and Sunshine Yellow/Cool Blue coming together as the first and second colour energies (dominant and auxiliary).

Creatives (as referred to by Insights) are found in the shaded segments of the Insights Discovery 72-Type Wheel. Creative types are also Focussed, Classic, or Accommodating depending on the number of strong energies above the midline. Some examples are Creative Supporting Coordinator (Focussed), Creative Observing Reformer (Classic), and Creative Inspiring Motivator (Accommodating).


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James Hampton (He/Him)

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