How SPOTLIGHT is Helping Emerging Practitioners Boost Their Effectiveness!
The SPOTLIGHT profile is quickly becoming my go-to self-awareness tool for emerging practitioners seeking to boost their effectiveness. This innovative tool helps these professionals understand their strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots in behaviour and decision-making so they can increase their adaptability. By taking a closer look at their SPOTLIGHT profile, practitioners can gain valuable insight into making their soft skills more impactful and effective. This blog post will explore how it has been helping practitioners enrolled on the Collaborate Sports Soft Skills Group Mentorship.
Introducing the SPOTLIGHT profile
“Have you ever wished that you could better understand yourself and the people around you?”
The SPOTLIGHT profile is a personal development tool that is designed to help you improve your communication skills, role-play abilities, conflict management strategies, decision-making processes, and ability to adapt your style to different situations.
Using the SPOTLIGHT profile is a simple process that involves completing an online questionnaire. This questionnaire is designed to measure various aspects of your personality, including your communication style, decision making style, and conflict management style. Once you have completed the questionnaire, you will receive a detailed report that outlines your strengths and areas for improvement.
By using the SPOTLIGHT profile, you can gain a better understanding of yourself and others, which can help you to be more effective in both your personal and professional life. Whether you are just starting out in your career or are an experienced practitioner, the SPOTLIGHT profile can help you to develop your skills and reach your full potential.
The benefits of using the SPOTLIGHT profile
One of the key benefits of using the SPOTLIGHT profile is the insight it provides into your personal communication and interaction style. By completing the assessment, you gain a better understanding of how you approach different situations, which can be incredibly valuable when it comes to navigating professional relationships and interactions.
One of the ways in which we achieve this is by learning about ourselves using the SPOTLIGHT profile, and then taking those learnings into role play, with practitioners playing different roles and contexts we typically experience in high performance. By engaging in these scenarios, practitioners are given the opportunity to test out different communication styles and approaches, allowing them to discover which techniques are most effective for them. Equally important, we delve into how to handle communicating with someone who has a different style to you, so practitioners get to trial how to modify their approach and improve thier chances of a successful interaction.
How the SPOTLIGHT profile is helping emerging practitioners boost their effectiveness
Don’t take it from me. See what current mentees are saying about the experience of having the SPOTLIGHT profile integrated to the Soft Skills development opportunity, The feedback from those who have used it has been overwhelmingly, but not surprisingly, positive.
Edward Hanson, Lead Academy S&C Burnley FC, shared:
"Going through the SPOTLIGHT profile with Dan and the rest of our cohort was very eye-opening and provided me with incredibly valuable insight into myself, and how to potentially enhance the way I interact with those around me. This was especially timely with future aspirations of more leadership responsibility, and using SPOTLIGHT to facilitate this is a form of personal development that I’ve not really a great deal in the last couple of years".
Nigel Goh, a Physiotherapist from Australia, had a similar experience, saying:
“The spotlight profile has brought to light certain traits in my work that I was previously unaware of. It allows me to have a more holistic approach to how I function as a team member as well as helping me produce my best work that will be beneficial to my work environment/organisation".
S&C Coach Taryn Guy reflected:
"I’d say the spotlight profile has really helped me understand myself at a time where I really needed something like that! Especially the identification of when I overplay my strengths which I felt I had been doing quite recently so it’s really helped me reel myself back in and on track!".
Nicola Ravenhill also weighed in on the benefits of using the profile, stating:
"SPOTLIGHT is a self-awareness tool, and one that is accessible to all. By exploring their strengths and weaknesses, people are able to learn more about themselves, identify their personal leadership style, and gain greater insight into the needs and preferences of their colleagues. The end result is an individual who is better equipped to lead themselves and their teams".
The SPOTLIGHT profile is clearly making a difference in the lives of emerging practitioners across a range of industries and I am so pleased it has been an integral part of what the soft skill programme aims to achieve with mentees, which is enabling practitioners to be more adaptable in pressure situations.
So, if you're interested in experiencing the benefits for yourself, book in here to meet me online, and ill show you EVERYTHING involved!
