Whole Brain Thinking Through Understanding of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)

We assist organizations to become more whole brained by administering the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument for individuals, teams, and whole organizations.  Practical business applications are then provided for how to use the instrument most effectively to optimize communication, coach and give feedback, lead change, handle conflict and motivate others.
 
How HBDI Works
The HBDI profile illustrates and explains the way you prefer to think, learn, communicate, and make decisions.  Understanding your personal thinking preferences will enable you to optimize your ability to adapt your thinking, decision–making or communication style to a given situation.  It will also explain why it is easier to communicate with some people than it is with others.  Your profile is based on a metaphoric representation of the brain, distinguished by four quadrants of thinking preferences.   
 

HBDI is a powerful tool that:

•    Improves Communication: Break down barriers, listen better,  create a common language
•    Increases Productivity: Maximize the brain power of your team
•    Encourages Innovation: Ignite breakthrough thinking and creativity
•    Enhances Performance: Match mental diversity to specific tasks
•    Assists Management: Understand the implications of the many thinking styles

Benefits of HBDI 

The HBDI instrument permits participants to become conscious of their own thinking preferences and their own thinking style.  This new awareness can help individuals to be more at ease with themselves and more perceptive about people who think and behave differently. It helps leaders understand how to coach others, manage conflict, embrace change, make decisions, and communicate more effectively.
 
Your HBDI profile illustrates and explains the way you prefer to think, learn, communicate, and make decisions. As we interact with the world, different situations require different types of thinking.  The HBDI focuses on the practical application of understanding our thinking preferences. 

Incite Strategies can also assist your teams by administering the HBDI Team Package.  This is an in–depth analysis of how a team thinks, processes information and prefers to work.  It shows trends and gaps and clarifies the preference of the team as a whole, and where there is a need to think outside the box.  It has immediate impact and is a powerful catalyst for increasing team effectiveness. 

Implement an In-depth Analysis of How Your Team Thinks

Incite Strategies can elevate your entire team's thinking by administering the HBDI Team Package. This is an in-depth analysis of how a team thinks, processes information and develops work style preferences. The process reveals trends and gaps, clarifying the preferences of the team as a whole, and indicating where there is a need to think outside the box. For most, the impact is powerful and immediate. Let Incite Strategies implement this extraordinary catalyst for increasing your team effectiveness.

Further HBDI reading and resources:

Links to downloadable HBDI PDFs:

• Measurement of Brain Dominance
• The Theory Behind HBDI

References

• Allinson, C.W., & Hayes, J. (1996). The Cognitive Style Index: A measure of intuition-analysis for organizational research. Journal
  of Management Studies, 33, 119-135.
• Ned Herrmann, The Creative Brain, Brain Books, Lake Lure, North Carolina, 1990.
• Ned Herrmann, The Whole Brain Business Book, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1996.
• Hines, T. (1987). Left brain/right brain mythology and implications for management and training. Academy of Management Review, 12, 600-606
• Edward Lumsdaine, M Lumsdanine, Creative Problem Solving, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
• Sala, Sergio Della, editor. (1999). Mind myths: Exploring popular assumptions about the mind and brain, J. Wiley & Sons, New York. ISBN 0-471-98303-9.