A collection of thoughts, reports
and articles from the Facet5 team
Lead Like a Coach: Using Personality to Unlock Potential
Leadership these days doesn’t just mean setting direction, managing resources, or making decisions. Increasingly it means inspiring, developing, and coaching others. But to lead as a coach, to bring out the best in people, one needs more than technique. You need awareness - of yourself, your style, and of others’.
Making Coaching Part of the Culture: How Personality Insight Makes it Stick
Many organisations talk about wanting a “coaching culture.” You’ll hear it in strategy documents, leadership speeches, HR’s ‘big plan’ decks. But often, it ends up being workshops, performance reviews, or one off mentor pairings. The flame flickers, then dims. What makes the difference between a culture that sticks and one that drifts?
Coaching with Heart: Why Personality Insight Changes Everything
When Sophie first came to coaching, she was frustrated. She had clear goals: step into leadership, get her team working well together, deliver results. But after three months, she felt stuck. Her coach was encouraging her to “be more structured, plan tighter, keep control.” Sophie tried, but each attempt left her drained and less motivated.
Creating a Strengths-Based Culture – From Individuals to Organisations
Focusing on strengths is powerful for individuals, transformative for teams, and a multiplier for leaders. But the real opportunity comes when strengths move beyond the personal and become part of an organisation’s culture.
Leading with Strengths – Coaching People to Their Potential
Leadership is often seen as a role full of responsibility and expectation: setting direction, making decisions, delivering results. But the leaders who truly stand out aren’t the ones trying to do everything themselves. They’re the ones who know their own strengths, lead authentically, and help others unlock their potential. That’s where a strengths-based approach to leadership and coaching makes all the difference.
Harnessing Strengths to Build High-Performing Teams
When you think back to the best team you’ve ever been part of, what stands out? Chances are it wasn’t that everyone thought the same way or worked in the same style. More likely, it was you had a way of understanding each other, connecting beyond the work and that in a way each person’s strengths came together — balancing, complementing, and stretching one another to achieve something bigger than any individual could do alone. That is the power of team strengths.
