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Overview

Like communication and leadership styles, our problem solving and decision making styles are also dependent on how we think. It dictates how quickly we make decisions. The approach to problem solving also varies based on thinking preferences.

The whole-brain approach to problem solving and decision-making will give you a practical approach using the HBDI to not only understand yourself but how you and others might approach a situation. It will also show you how to conduct a whole brain walk around on the impact of one’s solutions and the consequences of one’s decisions

The two day program will focus on a strong understanding of the HBDI as well as it’s application to your own organization. It will provide a detailed look into the diagnosis of business situations, as well as understanding of key business and leadership issues that may arise in your own organization, based on the participant’s specific profiles.

Target Audience

Duration

Participants Per Program

Objectives

Whole-brain approach to problem solving and decision-making helps organizations to:

Improve individual and team effectiveness, productivity and communication.

Increase creativity that will keep you ahead of your competition.

Consequently increase performance and bottom-line results.

Identify and practice creative yet practical techniques for generating solutions to business problems.

Implement a rational process for making decisions.

Content

The program includes:
The organizing principle behind the HBDI: A Four – Quadrant Model of the Brain.
The emergence of the four quadrants and their characteristics.
What are the different management styles within the brain dominance structure?
How do these managerial styles affect our communication?
Developing Decision Making and Problem Solving skills with the HBDI.

• Solving problems:
  - What is a problem?
  - Steps in defining a problem
  - Identifying the quadrant of a problem.
  - doing a whole brain walk around for solutions
  - What is a problem?
  - Steps in defining a problem
  - Identifying the quadrant of a problem.
  - doing a whole brain walk around for solutions
• Decision making:

• -    What is a decision?
• -    The decision making process
• -    Systematic approach
• -    Indecisiveness
• -    Whole brained walk around for decision making

Assessment with the HBDI

Each participant individually undergoes the HBDI assessment by answering the set questions. The participants are then given their resulting HBDI profiles. These individual and team profiles are then de-briefed for them by the facilitator.
The HBDI, through its series of 120 questions, is capable of measuring the degree of preference between each of the four individual thinking structures (quadrants) and each of the four paired structures (modes).
These consist of the left and right cerebral hemispheres and the left and night halves of the limbic system.
This results in four quadrant profile, which displays the degree of preferences for each of the four quadrants-your HBDI profile.

The HBDI is based on the following Whole Brain Model:

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