Overview

As a leader, manager, consultant or person responsible for solving problems, making improvements or creating ideas, you can lead the way. Start by tapping into the unique way you like to think. Enable both yourself and your team to think together effectively and contribute to innovation. By using new approaches you’ll make a difference that matters.

You probably already know something about left brain and right brain. Go beyond that to measure and identify four distinct thinking styles and see your profile in each one. When you know how you prefer to think, you can build upon your strengths and even advance in your less preferred categories. Your individual performance perks up and your ability to work well with others soars. You and your team can reach new heights, get more done with less hassle, save time and money, and improve results.

You accomplish this with an assessment tool called the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument. Consisting of 120 questions, the HBDI can be tried over the Internet or on paper.

How the HBDI Will Help You

Your Whole Team Will Benefit. Teams and groups as well as individuals can benefit by understanding how they think collectively. A team profile is an excellent tool for expanding your awareness, appreciating the strengths of others and developing new products and services that meet all the needs of your customers.

What is Whole Brain Thinking?

You have no doubt heard about left brain right brain, but whole brain thinking expands on that idea. Brain research shows four structures and HBDI assessments measure four distinct styles of thinking.

Current research shows that the human brain is highly specialized. The research from Herrmann International shows that there are an equal number of people in all four basic groups. The four quadrant whole brain model allows for more sophisticated combinations that measure both intellectual and emotional preferences which influence thinking styles and learning styles.

The HBDI draws on brain physiology research of Nobel prize-winning scientists like Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga. It was developed by the late Ned Herrmann at General Electric using advanced brain scanning technology. The HBDI model has been validated by more than 60 doctoral theses and scientific study, and by the satisfaction of more than 300,000 participants.

How Can the HBDI be Used?

These are things you can improve with personal use

• Relationships with colleagues friends and significant others
• Your self awareness
• Developing new skills based on the thinking styles you prefer

• Personal Growth
• Finding the right job or career
• Getting the right educational focus or training

• Writing
• Better decision making

These are things that can be improved with Organizational Uses

• Understanding your organizational culture
• Finding the right structures
• Better group process

• Planning learning
• Improving management/leadership Style
• Team Building
• Strengthening Staff Interaction
• Modeling
• Creative Problem Solving
• Teaching/Learning
• Counseling
• Communication

These are good Educational Uses

• Organization Development
• Career Planning
• Productivity improvement
• Job searches and choices
• Strengthening Marriage Relationships
• Improving Communication in the Family

Strategic/Operational Issues Can Be Strengthened

• Learning Group Formation
• Managing Differences
• Creative Team Formation and Team Assessments
• Dealing with Diversity

There are many uses for staffs

• Dealing with Change
• Selling
• Educational Courses
• Needs Assessment
• Workshops
• Strategy Development
• Meeting planning
• Communication
• Presentations
• Sales training
• Learning Materials
• Books
• Advertisements

Is the HBDI Valid?

The brain dominance concept has been strongly validated in a number of different ways:

• Through the research and experimentation of leaders in the field including Roger Sperry, Robert Ornstein, Henry Mintzberg, and Michael Gazzaniga.
• By the hundreds of EEG experiments carried out personally by Ned Herrmann.
• By the public demonstrations conducted by Ned Herrmann over the past 15 years.
• By specific validation studies carried out by C. Victor Bunderson and James Olsen of Wicat and later by C. Victor Bunderson and Kevin Ho, and in parallel with those studies by validation experiments carried out by Schadty and Potvin at the University of Texas.
• More than 60 doctoral dissertations based on both the HBDI and the whole brain concept.
• Thousands of anecdotal validations coming from people who have acknowledged verbally or in writing their strong personal acceptance of the HBDI profile as descriptive of themselves and their extremely positive feedback about the understanding both the profile and the concept has provided in terms of understanding others in their personal and work lives.

Pricing and Purchasing If you have already received your instructions and password to try the HBDI online, proceed now and follow the instructions to try the assessment, choosing the option "I have a code". Otherwise read the instructions below first. To try the HBDI online, review the pricing information included below and purchase your password online. Once you try the assessment, the package will be mailed to you on the same day or next business day.