Maximizing Your Business Operations with Human Design
Ashley Smith-Roberts, Esq., LL.M.
International lawyer specializing in ESG impacts of mineral supply chains & battery materials
Human Design is a visionary framework taking the business world by storm, impacting the way business owners run their businesses, hire team members, and structure their business operations. Many are finding that understanding their own Human Design is becoming key to creating a business with impact, while aligning with one’s personal energy needs, goals and design as well as understanding their team’s design to become more productive, profitable and efficient.?
By integrating Human Design into operational strategies, business owners and leaders can optimize workflows, delegate tasks more effectively, and ensure that each team member is positioned where they can contribute most powerfully. This results in a more cohesive and dynamic business operation that supports long-term success.
A Brief History of Human Design
Human Design as a system was developed in 1987. It combines astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, Vedic philosophy, and quantum physics. Human Design provides insights into your unique energetic design, describing who you truly are and how you are meant to exchange energy with the world around you.
Human Design provides you with specific tools to thrive based on your true personality, meaning who you are without socialization: without the external influence of your family, upbringing, educational experiences, or other societal pressures. Human Design gives you the keys to make truly aligned decisions in your life, to live a life that is authentic to you, your personal definition of success, and to your business.
Human Design Types
There are five types in Human Design:
Each type has their unique energy and way of operating in the world. Each type has a unique “aura,” and this impacts the aura of their businesses as well. Understanding your type is integral to your business strategy, business operations, and success.
?Human Design and Business Operations
When it comes to business operations, there are a few strategies that each type should keep in mind.
Generators
You have access to consistent energy, and you are also here to create.?
As you have access to a sustainable energy source, you can work around the clock when you are engaged in activities that you are passionate about, which gives you stamina and staying power. With this in mind, focus on building your business and operations around your passions. Focus on the projects and tasks that light you up and bring you joy, as you are someone who, when enthusiastic and in your flow, will create a strong environment?of productivity and positivity across your team, impacting the day-to-day operations.? Here are some examples of how you can support yourself in your business operations as a Generator:
?Manifesting Generators
As a hybrid type, everything that applies to Generators applies to you also. In addition, you work most effectively when you allow your multi-passionate nature to shine—this includes allowing your business to have more than one focus and creating multiple offers.
Having flexible operations systems that support pivoting and adapting quickly will best support your nature. One operations strategy that will work well for you is creating templates that you can use over and over again (such as for product launches or your social media strategy). By templatizing the actions and procedures you must implement on the back end to execute your offers or services, when you are in creation mode and coming up with new products, ideas, or services, templates will provide you with a reliable, repeatable process, that you know works for you, your business, and your target audience.
Here are some examples of how you can support yourself in your business operations as a Manifesting Generator:
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?Manifestors?
As a Manifestor, you are someone who has the unique ability to initiate and lead new projects. You are a visionary, and you work best when you are the one putting out new, innovative ideas.
Understand that your energy works best when you are initiating new products, services, or offers, and you are meant to provide the unique energy to get these projects off the ground. However, your initiatory-type energy is not as suited to finalizing projects.?
So, when thinking of operational projects?and implementing new systems and processes, it will be imperative?for you to have a team behind you that you can delegate to and have them execute the projects to completion. This frees you up to move on to the next big idea that comes to you, and know that in the background, your team is effectively executing on projects while you get to dream even bigger.?
Here are some examples of how you can support yourself in your business operations as a Manifestor:
Projectors
As a Projector, you may not have access to as much consistent energy as some of the other types (but each individual chart does vary), which means managing?your energy by balancing your workload and delegating operational tasks will be imperative?to maintaining?a sustainable and buildable pace in creating a business aligned with you.? Your strengths?lie in guiding, managing, and optimizing processes. You are a big-picture thinker and here to guide the overall strategy of the business, while ensuring all actions align with the long-term goals. You want to focus your efforts on high-level planning and vision-setting while providing guidance and insights for your team to help optimize their efforts in implementation.?
Having strong systems and processes, including automation, is huge for you because?it helps optimize that sustainable growth without impacting your physical energy. Avoid dissatisfaction and burnout and conserve your precious energy for strategic activities, where your guidance is most impactful. Focusing on automation in your business will help you streamline processes, reduce errors, and enhance efficiency, which helps you lead more effectively.
Here are some examples of how you can support yourself in your business operations as a Projectors:
Reflectors
As the name suggests, Reflectors are extremely sensitive to the environments and the energy of the people around them. Reflectors act as a mirror to those who surround them, reflecting their energy back to them.
For Reflectors, it is of utmost importance to keep a harmonious and healthy work environment. This includes their physical space, their emotional space, and their team environment. As a Reflector, thinking about how you can create a space where you feel most yourself, comfortable, and supported is key. So is understanding your team’s environment?and making sure that their well-being it at the top of your list.? Reflectors should focus on creating a collaborative environment that helps them stay in their designed energy, which allows for them to flourish and be able to share their unique perspective in creative and strategic planning sessions.
Here are some examples of how you can support yourself in your business operations as a Reflectors:
To wrap up, integrating your unique Human Design into your business operations helps you align your energy with your work, boosting productivity, fulfillment, and impact. By embracing the strengths of each Human Design type—whether you're a Generator, Manifesting Generator, Manifestor, Projector, or Reflector—you can create balanced operations that support both individual and team success. This approach fosters efficiency, a positive work environment, and sustainable growth, ensuring your business is truly aligned with who you are and how you're meant to thrive.
P.S. - Be on the lookout for our next post, we’ll be covering "Energy Meets Efficiency: Aligning Biz Ops with Your Human Design"