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PREFERENCES OF THOSEAROUND YOU TO IMPROVE

PERFORMANCE AND RESULTS

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In this time of rapid change, it’s not enough to do new things. We have to think innew ways. This takes more than “getting out of the box.” We have to design a newbox and find a way to get from the o d to the new. We can start by becomingconscious of our menta mode s, understanding our thinking sty es, and conductingour teams as orchestras of diverse and comp ementary thinkers.

Every day, we sit in meetings in which someone presents a prob em or opportunity.The response is a ways a version of “What are we going to do about it?” When’s theast time someone said, “How are we going to think about it?”

You want peop e who are ab e to un earn and shift their thinking. Do they have noton y menta abi ity, but menta agi ity? In some ro es, it’s a so critica that they have anabi ity to the shift the thinking of others. Great eaders today are ab e to persuade bycreating and shaping the menta mode s of their organizations and communities.

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individua s think guide how they work The ways groups of

individua s think guide how the teams they form work The ways

that groups of teams think and work wi make or break the

success of the organisation

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Each of us has the abi ity to use a four quadrants but we c ear y have preferences for some over othersThose preferences based on the dominance of specia ised thinking processes form the basis of the Who eBrain mode

The mode above shows how the brain processes information Learning how to everage the differentthinking preferences of peop e in communication wi ake e effec i e

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Harnessing the power of your organisation’s cognitive diversity requires being ab e to understand and everagethe thinking preferences of individua s and teams. The Herrmann P atform offers powerfu too s to acce erate theadoption and app ication of Who e Brain® Thinking within organisations. These too s empower eaders to deve opstrategies around a unique competitive advantage - their team's cognitive diversity.

HBDI DIGITALOne of the most powerfu too s contained within the Thinker porta is HBDI® Digita . The e ectronicversion of a Thinker’s HBDI® profi e provides an immersive experience fu of va uab e insights thatThinkers can exp ore on their own or with a certified practitioner.

INTERACTIVE LEARNING JOURNEYYour Thinkers want to be in contro of their deve opment and one-and-done tactics wi not cut it. Theinteractive earning modu es within the porta enab e Thinkers to navigate their own experience freeingpractitioners to concentrate on how to app y Who e Brain® Thinking within your organisation.

SHARE COMPARECo aborative Who e Brain® Thinking too s that can be used regu ar y, the sharing and comparefeatures a ow Thinkers to understand the thinking preferences of others and to gather va uab einsights to improve communication, prob em so ving, and decision making.

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