Your Small-but-Mighty Lumina January Update

Well, the new year is here! 2023 was a whirlwind, wasn't it? Here's our round-up on what's coming up to get you off a flying start in 2024, and all your latest resources that may come in handy moving forward.

We've got a kickstarter clash on all things AI for talent and development. Some handy top-tip guides for supporting women's leadership, hybrid working, and neurodivergent talent. And for the Lumina Practitioners out there, explore our latest tools quickly designing and delivering Lumina Spark development sessions. 2024, bring it on.

AI: Talent & Development's Saviour or Saboteur??

13 February - Zoom Panel Discussion

It's certain to be on the tip of many tongues for 2024. But how aware are we of the opportunities and challenges of using AI for understanding behaviour when selecting, assessing, and developing people? We want to help give you a headstart for the evolving year ahead.

We’ve gathered the experts to clash on what is happening right now for all things AI across selection, talent, L&D, and coaching. Join us for a controversial but collaborative panel discussion and Q&A that will make sense of where we are now, and what you can do next.?Grab a seat!

Global Practitioner Call - Evolving from 4 colour models to Lumina Spark

15 January?- Zoom

4 colour models provide a fantastically simple introduction to self-awareness for personal, team, and leadership development. So how can we take that powerful simplicity, while adding the more impactful development depth, needed for people to reach their full potential?

We'll be showing how to take a step beyond the 4 colours into Lumina Spark's combined simplicity and depth.?We'd love to have you with us! Sign up from your monthly update email Zoom invite. Can't find the invite? Contact [email protected] and we'll get you signed up!

Celebrating our community breaking the bias in 2023?

Looking for a little New Year inspiration? LinkedIn's Workplace Learning report from last year shines a light on the power of our industries and why the future can be bright for workplaces in 2024.?

• 83% of companies want a more people-centric culture
• 82% of leaders view HR as more important than ever
• Communication, Teamwork, Management, and Leadership rank as the highest-needed competencies

With this in mind, we wanted to mention how inspired we are by our global community coming together across 2023 to tackle the many current organisational challenges. From women's leadership to hybrid working, and neurodivergence, take a browse of our top tip guides from the topics we explored!

Top tip guides

Women Leading The Way - key lessons from the equality battle for improving business performance

Happy and Productive Hybrid Teams - how to create a happier and more productive hybrid team

Unboxing Neurodivergent Talent - The undervalued strengths in workplace performance and how to create change together

So what's next for 2024? Helping teams work better together!

From March onward, we'll be launching a whole new set of top-tip guides for helping teams work better together by supporting the well-being of everyone in key areas impacting workplace performance:?

• Building personal resilience to perform under pressure
• Creating healthier conflict that makes teams stronger
• Spotting and healing workplace bullying?
• How to give and receive effective feedback

Based on your feedback, we're turning all the goodness in our research and behavioural data into highly practical plans for people to create change together. We're looking forward to sharing the top tip guides, additional resources and their associated community calls with you. Watch this space!?

Curious about Lumina Spark? Experience the assessment revolution with your own Portrait

Get a firsthand feel of how organisations are using Lumina Spark to help everyone be their best and work better together. Come along for an immersive mini one-hour online workshop with some quick-fire coaching and workshop exercises to see how you can unbox the full potential of people with the future of more impactful, interactive, and inclusive assessments.?

Join an upcoming live experience!

Your Digital Guides for designing and delivering Lumina Spark

The community spoke, and we're striving to deliver the goods! Sparking Up Your Coaching and Sparking Up Your Workshops give you practical Portrait breakdowns, activities to use, worksheets, and templated session plans with tips and step-by-step videos to use across any development experience you're running. If you haven't checked them out already, we'd love to see what you think.

Get started with Sparking Up Your Coaching

Get started with Sparking Up Your Workshop

A shoutout to our global community for 2024

It’s been a privilege across last year to watch our growing community come together making a positive difference by helping people to be their best at work, connect better with each other, and create brighter workplaces for everyone.? And here's to many more years ahead.?Good luck with everything.

Until next time, have a good one lovely people of LinkedIn!