Episode 47: Easter roundtable
It’s episode 47, the last of season 6, and our Easter roundtable. And James is joined by Lisa Dutton, the IMA’s Head of Team Development, and Emma Jones, Head of Insight and Content.
In this episode we talk about the positive vibe around AI in Insight at the moment, accepting that it’s still very early days. IMA members are exploring ways to save time using AI to draft questionnaires, summarise large documents, and suggest headlines for slides. Some are even cheating on Lisa’s storytelling workshops – which we love, please use it to cheat with pride!
We also see this as a time of team change, with lots of restructures, some redundancies, and a loss of people with years of experience. In response, the most successful Insight teams have doubled down on commercial thinking and influencing skills.
Finally, we look at leaders’ roles in guiding their team members through change. Lisa provides a personal perspective on coaching and explores how Insight teams can learn from coaching principles. And Emma talks about imposter syndrome, and how we can all learn to recognise it, and help ourselves and others to manage it.
Topics Discussed
- Insight team’s early use of AI (1.15)
- It’s a time of change and restructure (8.20)
- Insight leaders need to be agile and aware of the politics (11.01)
- Learning from coaching (12.30)
- How to recognise and manage imposter syndrome (19.35)
This is episode 47 of the Transforming Insight podcast.
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About James Wycherley, the author of Transforming Insight
James Wycherley was Director of Customer Insight and Analytics at Barclays from 2005 to 2015 when he became Chief Executive of the Insight Management Academy (IMA). A popular keynote speaker and acknowledged expert on Insight leadership, strategy, and communication, he is the author of the book Transforming Insight: the 42 secrets of successful corporate Insight teams, and over 35 IMA publications. He has provided thought leadership in the UK, Western Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, India, and the Middle East, and regularly hosts the IMA’s Insight forums - London, Manchester, UK Online and US Online.
The Insight Management Academy is the world’s leading authority on transforming Insight teams.
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