ForwardInsight

Users call ForwardInsight their “Appreciation App™”. They use it to let their colleagues know how much they appreciate their help, support, and collegiality, especially in today’s disconnected virtual workplace. Of course, it also helps them understand how much their work is appreciated by others and provides insights into how they can help to energize their team activities even more.

Forwardinsight is an easy-to-use cloud-based, social-cohesion and smart coaching system. Its patent-pending approach is based on the latest post-pandemic research and uses proprietary security, analytics, and artificial intelligence algorithms to provide personalized insight about each user’s unique social interaction environment (both in-person and virtual) with from trusted mentors who know the ropes. Immediately after key work related events like meetings or presentations, users are automatically prompted to give and receive confidential and personalized reactions and kudos framed along with coaching from experts. This allows low-stress high-impact-the-job targeted professional development. It’s almost as good as having a drink with colleagues after the meeting, but without the hangover. The purpose of the App is to help users help themselves and others learn and grow to reach their full potential.

Each user’s information is secure and confidential because it is protected by patent-pending security protocols. Each user can only see and access their data. However, while you are walking from meeting to meeting, or as you have a cup of coffee between video calls, your Smart Coaching Assistant processes that data using its state-of-the-art algorithms. While you are taking a break, your Coaching Assistant is hard at work gathering, interpreting, and analyzing the information that you and your colleagues have provided about your project. It is working to identify ways that your work group can become more efficient and effective the next time you get together. This knowledge is then individualized and customized to provide for each of you a personalized smartphone newsfeed of short and relevant observations and targeted advice from senior professionals and other experts in the field. No reprimands or personal consequences, no pressure, and no additional stress is intended. Nobody knows what it says but you and those with whom you might choose to share an insight or two. All that is offered is friendly advice for you to accept or discard.

In addition, because each user is giving and getting personalized insight about how they might better work together, the team itself works faster, grows stronger, and operates in a climate of increasing trust. As each user becomes a stronger contributor, the ForwardInsight learning loop continually builds trust across the organization, one user, and one interaction at a time.



Keywords: Smart coaching peer evaluation project management, leadership development, professional development