Your team is smart, driven, and experienced—so why are projects stalling, meetings dragging, and conflict rising? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. I’ve seen it many times: you meet a team, and they are all smart, hard-working, nice people. And then the team lead lists all the things that are going wrong with delivery of the work. They are just so frustrated, because it shouldn’t be happening, should it?
What we often overlook when collaborating with teams is the fact that everyone thinks slightly differently. They approach work, problems and processes from a distinct perspective. This works like a cognitive bias: because we prefer to do things in a specific way, we become blind to other ways, and this can lead to conflict.
Sure, you’re frustrated, but the differences in approach that are leading to this situation are superpowers, just waiting to be unleashed.
You see, Foursight recognises that any problem-solving process has four major steps. This forms a simple framework that can guide you through solving any sort of problem. But Foursight goes one step further and says that everyone prefers one or more of these steps, which leads them to behave in specific ways in Problem solving situations.
Foursight doesn’t just make collaboration smoother—it reduces friction, accelerates delivery, and boosts your team’s output without hiring anyone new.
You might be thinking, well of course everyone first wants to find the underlying cause of the problem, understands all the factors and make sure that we understand exactly what is going on, right?
But not everyone does that. Some people prefer to just start experimenting and doing things to try and resolve the problem. Others want to spend time producing plenty of potential solutions. And yet others don’t really care about which idea is going to solve the problem as they are focused on making a pragmatic, workable plan that will deliver the solutions.
These are loosely the Foursight preferences which will be revealed to you when you sign up to take an online Foursight Profile assessment. This profile identifies Your preferences based on your responses to an extensive questionnaire.
When you put the profiles of all your team members next to each other, the reasons for misunderstanding, bottle neck and conflict becomes clear: You will always have different profiles who PREFER to start at separate places in the process.
When you put the profiles of all your team members next to each other, the reasons for misunderstanding, bottle neck and conflict becomes clear: You will always have different profiles who PREFER to start at separate places in the process.
Think of Foursight as Google Maps for team problem-solving: it shows where everyone is, where you’re all trying to go, and how to get there without crashing into each other.
Foursight can help team leads understand every preference, help the team themselves understand their own way of doing things AND develop understanding of what the colleagues are thinking and way.
It gives your team a shared language to talk about problem solving, where they are in the process and who needs to do what next.
This clarity leads to better relationships, better collaboration and, to better solutions discover more efficiently.
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