Episode 54 of the Transforming Insight podcast is now available, and it's our summer roundtable.
James, Emma and Lisa review the latest best practice research and hot topics of conversation.
In this episode we talk about the importance of managing the relationships we have with an Insight team’s external partners and suppliers in a more strategic way; about the need to review our own team’s ‘product range’; and the critical role of project prioritisation. IMA members can now access videos and summaries on all these topics.
But the topic that’s resonated most for us personally, and many of our members, has been Insight team wellbeing, and the ways we can all identify and help our colleagues to manage stress.
Emma’s conversation with new IMA associate Lara Meyer, recorded and shared at the July Insight forums and now available for all members to watch on the IMA website, explored many angles to this, including the critical importance of talking about wellbeing and giving our colleagues permission to raise it.
Just back from a fabulous - but extremely hot! - Quirk’s New York, we also recognise that this is a time of change for many Insight leaders and their teams.
That means that it’s never been more important to get ourselves up to 10,000 feet and look back down on our Insight teams in their organisations, and our organisations within their markets. We need that sense of perspective to figure out which ways of working are no longer fit for purpose, and when we should all learn to say no.
Finally, we finish on a positive note. There's a lot of change in the air at the moment, with uncertainty for some over job roles, budgets and team activity.
But there is always another Insight leader or corporate Insight professional out there who is tackling the same challenge, and we’d encourage all our listeners to contact the Insight Management Academy any time they like if they feel the need for some inspiration and support!
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If you have the ambition to transform your Insight team and its impact in your organisation, please tune in!
We explore the 42 secrets of successful corporate Insight teams, as summarised in the Transforming Insight book, but also talk to many of the senior Insight leaders at organisations like Carnival, Carlsberg, Card Factory, Nestle, Sainsbury's, ASOS and Coca-Cola European Partners who have put these ideas into practice.
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James, Lisa & Emma