Does it sometimes seem like you and your team members are speaking a different language? The use of assessments such as the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI®), Myers-Briggs (MBTI®) and Benchmarks® can create a common framework for working through issues that cause stress and loss of productivity.
A variety of factors can influence team communication, including varying individual learning styles and cultural norms. Understanding and leveraging these group and individual dynamics is a key asset of good leadership. However, sometimes even the best manager needs a reliable adviser to help pinpoint and solve internal issues.
We Get Results
We are experts at assessing organizations and at utilizing simple techniques to create breakthrough results. Our assessments include the use of several industry standard tools, including Myers-Briggs (MBTI®), Benchmarks® and the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI®). The results enable us to identify issues and craft strategies for improvement in many areas such as:
- Developing personal self-awareness
- Communication effectiveness
- Decision making
- Innovation and Creativity
- Individual/group diagnosis and intervention
- Leveraging team capabilities
- Customer/selling strategies
- Conflict resolution and problem solving
- Learning challenges
- Work redesign and cultural development
- Diversity
- Effective training design
- Increasing cognitive development skills
Certifications/Qualifications
- Benchmarks® Certified by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)*
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Qualified (MBTI®)
- Certified Compensation Professional (CCP®)
- Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI®)
- Certified to deliver assessments through CPP including FIRO® products, CPI® 260 products, Strong Interest Inventory products, Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, Work Engagement Profile, Parker Team Player Survey, Power Base Inventory and Stress Resiliency Profile.
* Recognized to deliver additional assessments through CCL - SKILLSCOPE°, KEYS°, Executive Dimensions, 360 BY DESIGN and Prospector°.
Our Method
We utilize the following certifications in this capacity:
HBDI®
The HBDI® (Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument) is a tool for the physiological assessment of thinking preferences aiding in cognitive development. It assists us in understanding individual styles and preferences to situational circumstances, including conflict resolution, problem solving, communication, creativity, decision making, and learning styles and more.
Do you have an interest in learning how your HBDI® profile can help you? The HBDI® profile requires a certified practitioner to administer and debrief the results. One of the most beneficial aspects of working with an experienced HBDI® certified practitioner is the ability to interpret and apply your profile results to your questions, stress triggers or other personal or team hurdles.
It takes about 45 minutes to complete the HBDI® online here.
Are you thinking about becoming certified in the HBDI®? Learn how to receive FREE HBDI® coaching time.
Learn more about the HBDI at Elephants at Work:
- HBDI Question Series: Part 1
- HBDI Question Series: Part 2
- HBDI Gives Insight Into Stress Behavior During Tough Times
- What we do not see may be more important than what we do see
- Conversation Breakdowns: It might Just be the Approach
MBTI®
The most widely used personality inventory in the world; the MBTI® instrument provides an accurate picture of a person’s personality type.
It is used for a wide range of applications, including executive development, leadership & coaching, organizational development, team development, career management, conflict resolution, retention, culture and diversity, and working relationships. It operates by determining preferences on four dichotomies:
- Extraversion–Introversion: This preference tells us whether the individual is more likely to focus and gain energy from the outer world of people or from the inner world of ideas and experiences.
- Sensing–Intuition: This preference describes how the individual prefers to take in information—focused on what is real and actual or on patterns and meanings in data.
- Thinking–Feeling: This preference affects decision-making skills, indicating whether an individual usually makes decisions based on logical analysis or guided by concern for their impact on others.
- Judging–Perceiving: This preference indicates how people prefer to deal with the outside world — in a planned orderly way, or in a flexible spontaneous way.
The combination of these preferences results in 16 distinct personality types. Understanding the characteristics that are unique to each personality type provides valuable insight on how they influence an individual’s way of communicating and interacting with others. The MBTI® Step II (Form Q) instrument drills down and details 20 facets of the preferences for more in-depth personality type understanding.
Benchmarks®
Benchmarks® is a comprehensive, 360-degree assessment tool that measures 16 skills and perspectives that are critical for success. This type of an analysis enables an executive to obtain an objective assessment of their skills and a comparison of those skills to similar managers in other organizations. This ultimately allows the behavioral trainer and individual to focus on and create strategies for development in specific key areas.
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