Maximising Your Organisation’s Whole Brain
"Awareness of a colleague’s dominant thinking style and a newfound respect for it, eased the communication difficulty that existed between varying teams. There is now more of an appreciation and awareness of how and why different individuals think," says Integ CEO Ian Poole.
Are inefficiencies plaguing your organisation? Is your team losing focus? Are useful new ideas and products currently at a standstill? Herrmann International’s proven Whole Brain Thinking™ principles can help make your organisation more productive, creative, and profitable.
Herrmann’s Whole Brain Thinking™ methodology is the set of proven practices for cultivating the ability for individuals to act outside of their own preferred thinking styles. It can help your organisation to:
- Build effective teams
- Create an innovative business strategy to solve a revenue problem
- Manage mergers and acquisitions
- Initiate organisational culture change
- Develop a customer service strategy
- Increase job satisfaction and decrease turnover
- Solve a product or revenue problem
- Improve your decision making, problem solving, and planning skills
- Differentiate your organisation from the competition
- Innovate more consistently and effectively
The Herrmann Approach
The most natural place to start applying Whole Brain Thinking™ is to determine the individual thinking styles of the people in your organisation.
From there, the possibilities are:
- Foundation – Individuals and teams complete the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument™ (HBDI™), which assesses thinking preferences.
- Application – Specific group objectives such as communication and team building are addressed through workshops, consulting and tailored products with the goal of helping people learn to think with their whole brains, not just with the parts with which they feel most comfortable.
- Adoption – Divisions such as sales, customer service, research & development work with Herrmann to utilise Whole Brain Thinking™ to solve a specific problem or improve a process.
- Transformation – Herrmann provides assessment tools, training programs, performance research and counsel to company leaders to build a culture in which Whole Brain Thinking™ principles are embedded across an entire organisation.
Benefits to the Customer
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Prescribe |
Level I Foundation
(Individuals) |
Assessment:
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Use of Whole Brain Thinking™ as a diagnostic tool for improvement at an individual level. |
Level II Application
(Pairs, Teams, Groups) |
Assessment:
- HBDI2™ (Pair Profile)
- HBDI Team Profile™
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Applying Whole Brain Thinking™ to pair, group and team issues for improved performance. |
Level III* Adoption
(Groups, Internal and External) |
Assessment:
- HBDI™ Group Data
- HBDI™ Industry Data
- HBDI Snapshot™ *
- HBDI Text Profiler™ *
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Broad improvement through adoption of Whole Brain processes with a strategic focus on performance in a division or across a management level. |
Level IV* Transformation
(Organisation) |
Assessment:
- HBDI™ Culture Data
- HBDI Culture Map™ *
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Execution of a transformation strategy across the organisation, systematically integrating Whole Brain Thinking™ for improved results. |
* Indicates a product under development
Achieving Better Results Through Better Thinking
Find out how Whole Brain Thinking helped IT Company, Integ increase employee engagement and customer focus.
Whole Brain® Thinking fuelled the transformation that saved UGN $10 million. Integrating a Whole Brain approach into the implementation of the value based management initiative resulted in associate buy-in, which resonated at every level of the company and created a company-wide ownership of and participation in the transformation process.
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The Whole Brain® Advantage 
