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Organisational Learning &
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Putting
Your Companies Whole Brain to Work...!
Have you ever just
met someone and clicked with them straight away?
What about when you
have met someone and despite your best efforts they
still annoy the living daylights out of you?
People naturally like
people that are like themselves. The reality is
that we have to negotiate, manage, work and live with
people that will prefer to energise, take in information,
arrive at decisions and live in the world differently
to us. The old adage suggests that we should treat
people the way that we would want to be treated.
That's great if we meet people that are like us!
So what do we do with the other 80% of people that are
not like us?
This session requires
the completion of the Herrmann Brain dominance Instrument
prior to the Workshop. This will allow us the
maximum time during the session to develop and enhance
your understanding of the four distinct styles.
The investment in the Profile includes a full colour
profile of your brain's thinking preferences that we
will use during the session. (Relax...everyone
has a whole brain, it's just that we prefer to use certain
parts!). The resource kit also includes four publications
that focus on each area of the brain and includes a
practical and fun self development guide for us post
workshop.
What
are the Benefits for Individuals and Teams?
Homogeneous teams can quickly achieve
a consensus of opinion and will typically respond in
ways predictable with their quadrant preference.
People who think alike tend to come to agreement quite
rapidly. Their decisions are referred to as "obvious"
or "adequate".
Heterogeneous
teams however, behave in entirely different
ways. They experience difficulty in reaching consensus,
but because of their diversity it can be synergistic
and therefore ideal for creative and innovative assignments.
Their decisions are referred to as "creative and
innovative"
Our experience has proven
predictable results that in problem solving situations,
the decisions arrived at by heterogeneous teams have,
despite taking longer, been superior in most cases to
those arrived at by the homogeneous team.
Homogeneous teams can
be quite synergistic and positive or quite hostile and
disruptive. Imagine one person in the team has
strong preferences for logic, analytic quantitative
processes and a distaste for anything dealing with feelings
and emotions whilst another team member amy have the
exact opposite set of preferences!
Another pair may be made
up of a highly experimental, risk oriented, adventurous
spirit who can't stand the status quo whilst another
member may be highly traditional and security minded.
It is for these reasons
that in the development of the team these individuals
are educated about the differences and use them to assist
everyone in the team to achieve an improved result.
Experience has shown
that once individuals experience stimulation, excitement
and creative outcomes of heterogeneous team membership,
they can transfer that skill to other groups without
having to go through another elaborate learning curve.
Her are a few more specific
examples where the direct application of this learning
can be applied everyday in the situations that present
themselves in their work environments.
Meetings...how
individuals contribute and like to give and receive
information are affected by individual preferences.
Leadership Development...recognition
of individual styles and the necessary changes in leadership
style to obtain the best results with the people that
report to you
Performance Coaching...as
mentioned above, managers will now have insight into
how to better communicate with their teams and in particular
the one on one situations.
Change Management...certain
styles thrive on change an new ideas whilst others prefer
to maintain the status quo. By understanding these
differences, individuals are more aware of their own
strengths and weaknesses when it comes to managing change.
Recognition and
Feedback...in understanding the individuals
personal preference for communication style, the HBDI
will enhance the skills in this area for managers and
their teams
Intergroup Relations
& Teamwork...the HBDI educates people to
recognise and celebrate the similarities and differences
that we use. Education reduces ignorance to these
issues and with knowledge comes the power to deal with
and accept what we see as different to our own preferred
style.
Under Pressure...where
do you go under pressure? Most individuals will
revert to a "back up" style that may or not
assist that individual to achieve that best outcomes
when the heat is on. The HBDI highlights these
areas and provides a mechanism for individuals within
the team to focus on as an area for professional development.
Why
is it becoming so popular?
Based
on the research by Ned Herrmann, this instrument has
become extremely popular for understanding the similarities
and differences inside of organisations. It allows
for a greater understanding of how individuals and teams
function and then how to get the most out of them.
Its popularity is also based on the fact that people
actually remember and hence use their knowledge of whole
brain thinking in the practical day to day of their
business with both internal and external clients! Not
to mention what happens at home!!
In
this fun and interactive workshop we will work through
the following key points.
- Learn what makes people do the
things that they do
- The difference between Preference
and Behaviour
- Develop an understanding of the
four distinct areas of the Brain
- Learn how to practically apply
this information in your own development and of those
around you
- Identify how to utilise the potential
and get the most out of the people by operating in
their preferred modes
- Reduce stress & conflict and
learn how to improve relationships and build better
teams
PS: Please advise us if you intend
to bring your whole team to this event. The HBDI
allows us to produce a team profile that will allow
you to see where everyone "fits"...hence the
strengths and areas to look out for to ensure that you
put the whole brain to work!
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