Read how Yale College, Wrexham, North Wales, used the HBDI® as part of its “Learning to Learn” project to identify learning preferences and find appropriate strategies to address learning challenges. As the data from this Spotlight on Learning Overview reveals, the HBDI provided the key to unlocking the learning potential of students across the college.

Orange Credit Union
How Whole Brain® Thinking improved communication and assisted with cultural change
Orange Credit Union has an opportunity to surpass all other banking institutions in the Orange region, by providing quality member services in an open, trusting and supportive environment.
Central to achieving this objective is building and maintaining a culture of trust within the management team, between staff members and from members to staff.
As Kate Gorell, HR Manager at Orange Credit Union explains, “While the management team were already working effectively as a team, we saw an opportunity to further develop and become role models for our staff. By becoming role models, we are able to demonstrate how we understand the strengths and skills of each member. By utilising our skills more effectively, we are able to target the skills between the teams to maximise team performance.”

We now have a unique URL for our Facebook Fan Page.

http://www.facebook.com/herrmannasia

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Neuroplasticity is a long word – and it sounds like a complicated process.

It might well be a complicated process but it is easy to experience. We do so each every time we learn something new.

When we learn something new, we create new connections in the brain. This is neuroplasticity. And if you revise something you have just learnt, or even remember something from the past, you strengthen the existing connections. This is neuroplasticity. Also, as each neuron can connect to many other neurons, you not only remember something, but you also make associates with other things that are linked. This is how you memory grows and expands.

Keep learning and your brain will keep changing.

There are a number of powerful memory techniques that work the same way that neuroplasticity works. Pegs, Loci Story Links and Links all feed off the way neurons naturally connect with each other.

If you want to maintain a good memory and enhance your ability to learn, you also need to do a few things to help your brain and keep it fit:

Give it a balanced diet of complex carbohydrates, fruit, vegetables and protein.
Give it enough sleep
Exercise it
Stimulate it
Increase your attention span
Be organised

Today we added 2 new products to our webstore.

The ‘Four F’s’ Model balloons in a set of 4 Herrmann colours
Create a powerful and highly interactive presentation using the ‘Four F’s’ Model balloons, Fact, Form, Feel and Free. Each set includes 4 balloons in the four Herrmann colours. Blue and green are printed with a white image and red and yellow with a black image.

The Herrmann Enviro Tote Bag

The Herrmann Tote Bag is made from 80gsm Polypropolene sourced from recycled soft drink bottles. The bag measures 35cm square and has a pocket on either end as well as a front pocket with a sleeve for 2 pens.

The May edition of the New Scientist has a wonderful article called 6909 ways of thinking.
The Whole Brain Model is based around 4 major types or ways of thinking. Another 6905 is mind boggling!

The article is about language and how it effects the way we think. Up until recently, the prevailing though was that all languages followed a number of basic rules and that the brain was born ‘language ready’ to learn what ever language it was surrounded by.

This is now being challenged by linguist Nicholas Evans at the Australian National University in Canberra.

He believes that languages do not share a set of common rules. Rather, the brain learns the unique language it is surrounded by, and in turn is shaped by it. Different languages have different structures and create different connections in the brain.

This is yet another example of the brain’s plasticity.

He goes on to say that the first job of the brain is to build a better brain. This it does using any input it can get, including language. It probably means that speakers of very different languages have very different brains.

6909 different ways of thinking. Wow.

Source: The New Scientist, May 2010, pages 33-35