Make better business decisions and be more effective
Make better business decisions and be more effective
About us

Navigate your Business Journey

Developed by Shirlaws Group, the Shirlaws Compass suite of business behaviour indicators is designed to help people understand and navigate their business behaviours, work more effectively and create successful business strategies.

Established in 1999, Shirlaws is a global community of business professionals using our world-class intellectual property, business tools and methodologies. Together, these have helped transform more than 7,000 companies across 34 territories.

Through Shirlaws Compass, we give business professionals practical tools to better understand individual and team behaviours, improve decision-making and create an environment where businesses, and the people within them, can flourish.

Understanding

Our Indicators


Unlike many profiling tools on the market, Shirlaws Compass indicators focus on behaviours rather than personality, providing a more nuanced understanding of how people operate in a business environment.

The indicators explore fundamental business behaviours and behavioural preferences, focusing on management style (ELM), communication and decision-making (TFK), risk appetite (RISK) and productivity (PACE). By mapping and understanding where you are now, Compass provides practical insight to help you navigate your future path.

For individuals, Compass can build greater self-awareness, support personal development and inform career development. Within businesses and organisations, Compass indicators can help teams better understand their behaviours and provide valuable insight to support business strategy, organisational change, recruitment and workplace culture.

For organisations looking to get more from their results, Training by Shirlaws provides courses on how to interpret and apply Compass indicators, helping individuals, leaders and teams understand their behavioural preferences and use those insights in a practical business context.

For organisations looking to get more from their results, Training by Shirlaws provides courses on how to interpret and apply Compass indicators, helping individuals, leaders and teams understand their behavioural preferences and use those insights in a practical business context.

Business strategies
Business strategies
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How Businesses Use Compass


Shirlaws Compass indicators have been used for over 20 years by individuals, business owners, HR teams, business units and leadership teams around the world.

Organisations use Compass to support a wide range of business needs, from business strategy and organisational change to team dynamics and future direction. The indicators can also support recruitment and talent development, or be used to benchmark behavioural preferences across a business on an ad-hoc or annual basis.

Discover how Shirlaws Compass business behaviour indicators can uncover individual and team behavioural preferences, build greater understanding and help you create more successful business strategies.

I would recommend Think Feel Know to any company that wants a fast and simple way to first understand and then improve communication across the business.
Sara Daw, The FD Centre
Compass is incredibly practical, easy to grasp and actionable.
Kate Anderson, morph b2b
Entrepreneur Leader Manager is a powerful tool which unlocks partnership dynamics and supports understanding of differences.
Roddy Cameron, UK
Entrepreneur Leader Manager proved to be a powerful predictive tool for the strategic focal points that emerged from our planning session and helped set the tone for open, constructive dialogue and fast, aligned decision-making amongst the partnership.
Chris Cook, Canada
ELM has really good cut through into why a business might not be functioning as well as it could be and not achieving what it should.
Alastair Kight, Juma Investments
We have been using Compass Pace Indicators with our clients for many years now and find them extremely beneficial and complimentary to our programs. Their online systems are well designed and user friendly and they always provide prompt and professional support.
Karen Finucane, Captain of Logistics, Next Evolution Performance
The Risk indicator was truly eye opening. It revealed how each of us makes decisions and enabled us to address some underlying frustrations in our team.
Kathy Ryan, Chair & Founder, RoseRyan
Now I know my Risk profile and my team’s Risk profile, I know we have the right team to implement our strategic plan. I think it’s an incredibly powerful exercise to do.
Belinda Vesey-Brown, MD, Brio Group