A quick way to introduce people to how behaviour influences performance

How to introduce people to the potential of self-awareness with Create a Taster Splash

Most senior leaders have experienced a psychometric assessment at some point in their career. Whether through leadership programmes, interviews or workshops, they’ve seen how they can increase people’s self-awareness by highlighting their strengths and development areas.

Yet very few have seen that insight translate into changing their team's behaviour, way of working and performance back in the workplace.

As a result, scepticism builds and buy-in for behavioural solutions remain low. For practitioners who know the potential of psychometrics, this can make it difficult to get effective development programmes that drive behaviour change off the ground.

So, how can practitioners help people quickly see the value of self-awareness and how it shapes people’s performance?

Connect behaviour to decisions, communication and collaboration

Without a clear connection to everyday work, psychometric assessments can be seen as just another report from HR, with little clarity on how it will help people navigate the actual behavioural challenges and opportunities they have in their day-to-day work.

Before investing time, budget or attention, senior leaders need to clearly see how behavioural insight can practically support their performance outcomes.
One of the most effective ways to do this is to move beyond explanation. Rather than describing a framework or walking them through a report, they need an experience that shifts the conversation away from “self-awareness can help you…” towards questions like:

• How does this behaviour influence how you make decisions in meetings?

• In what situations could dialling up another behaviour improve your decisions?

•  Where might overplaying this strength reduce the quality of your decisions?

Helping people see the insights through their own lived experience opens a practical conversation around how the quality of their decisions, collaboration and performance can be supported or hindered by their behaviour.

But how can you create this experience without taking people through an entire report and explaining a framework?

Quickly build curiosity with Create a Taster Splash

The Create a Taster Splash feature in the Lumina Splash app  was created to bring this experience to life. 

While anyone can create their own Taster Splash, Lumina Learning Practitioners can create and share unlimited Taster Splashes with others.

This gives them a quick way to introduce people to the Lumina Spark framework, demonstrate value and make the link between behaviour and performance immediately relevant to people.

With a simple two-minute questionnaire, a practitioner can invite people to visualise a high-level view of their personality and interactively explore how their behaviour shows up at work. 

By guiding someone through their Taster Splash, practitioners can quickly open a meaningful conversation around anyone’s:
•    Strengths and development areas
•    How their behaviour may be perceived by others
•    How their behaviour could be influencing performance

Because the insight is personalised, people are more likely to engage with it and curiously reflect on how they can adapt their behaviour in their own work.

This makes it useful for introducing a practical lens for behaviour to senior leaders, building buy-in for development programmes, or opening coaching conversations around behaviour and perception.

For a detailed exploration of the Create a Taster Splash feature, watch this video:

How the Create a Taster Splash feature influences stakeholder buy-in 

Rather than requiring a full psychometric assessment upfront, the Create a Taster Splash feature creates a low-effort, high-impact entry point into understanding the full value of self-awareness. Within minutes, it allows people to experience how behaviour connects to their role, their decisions, and their performance.

At the same time, it shares a glimpse into the power of having a practical lens to recognise and understand the behaviour behind everyday workplace challenges.

This makes it easier for leaders to reflect on what could change if their team had a common language to discuss behaviour together and how adapting behaviour could improve their overall performance.

It also shows the value their teams will gain from using the other interactive features in the Lumina Splash app like View your Splash, Share and Compare and Draw a Custom Splash. 

For practitioners, this means less time explaining frameworks and more time creating influence through meaningful conversations. By turning those first conversations into experiences, the buy-in needed for behavioural solutions to turn into deeper development opportunities, starts to embed.

Turning curiosity into practical conversations

Whether working with clients or influencing stakeholders internally, demonstrating the full potential of psychometrics and how it can embed into the flow of work helps people clearly see how behaviour shapes performance.

When this connection is experienced early on, self-awareness becomes more than a ‘nice-to-have' report from HR and turns into a practical lens for change.

This creates the foundation for more meaningful development conversations, stronger stakeholder buy-in, and a clearer way to roll out behavioural solutions in the workplace.
Experience the Lumina Splash app with your own Taster Splash

Give people, teams and leaders a highly engaging, interactive way to explore and understand the impact and perception of their behaviour together.

Download the Lumina Splash app from the Google Play Store or App Store and explore a high-level view of your personal style with your own Taster Splash.