Workshop at a Glance
Format:
Facilitated working workshop
Audience:
Intact leadership and project teams (6–15 participants)
Length:
3 hours
Focus:
Decision-making and execution alignment under pressure
Includes:
Individual and team HBDI® profiles
Team thinking map
Facilitated application to a real decision
Decision and meeting agreements
Outcomes:
Clearer decisions. Better meetings. Consistent follow-through.
The Whole Brain® Thinking Workshop equips leadership and project teams with a best-in-class framework for decision-making and execution alignment.
Thinking Clearly When the Stakes Are High
A Working Leadership Team Experience Grounded in Whole Brain® Thinking and the HBDI framework
Every leadership team has smart people, strong intentions, and a full agenda. What separates teams that execute cleanly from those that struggle is how they think and work together when decisions are complex, time-pressured, or high-stakes.
Here are the facts: 43% of employees say their leaders are not aligned, and 37% say this lack of clarity leaves them feeling directionless. (Source: Korn Ferry Global Workforce Survey) The resulting decision breakdowns tend to show up the same way across organizations: conversations circle, priorities blur, and group analysis paralysis. That stops any leadership team from moving forward.
The Whole Brain® Thinking Workshop equips leadership and project teams with a best-in-class framework for decision-making and execution alignment grounded in the Herrmann Whole Brain® Thinking model and powered by the HBDI® assessment.
This workshop gets your leadership team or project team unstuck and on the same page, moving in the same direction.
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Who This Workshop Is For
This workshop is designed for intact teams responsible for making and executing meaningful decisions.
It’s particularly effective for:
Executive and senior leadership teams
Cross-functional leadership groups
Project teams operating under deadlines, complexity, or change
Strategy, transformation, and integration teams
Teams often seek this work when:
Decisions take longer than they should
Meetings feel productive but outcomes don’t hold
Priorities compete instead of reinforce one another
Pressure exposes friction, which leads to team breakdowns
What the Workshop Helps Teams Do
The challenge most teams face isn’t capability—it’s cognitive alignment.
Under pressure, teams tend to:
Fall back on familiar ways of thinking
Narrow their perspectives to the point that some voices go unheard
Miss important signals around risk, people impact, or execution readiness
This often brings teams to a grinding halt just when clarity matters most.
Whole Brain® Thinking provides a shared language for how decisions are framed, explored, and executed, allowing teams to engage differences productively rather than work around them.
This leads to:
Clearer conversations
Stronger commitment to decisions
More consistent follow-through after the meeting ends
What You’re Buying: A Facilitated Working Session
This in-person workshop is designed as a working session, not a presentation.
Participants apply Whole Brain® Thinking to a real, current business decision the team is actively facing supported by individual and team HBDI® profiles that reveal how the team naturally approaches decisions.
During the session, teams:
Examine how their collective thinking shows up under pressure
Apply the Whole Brain® framework to a live decision or challenge
Establish shared agreements for how decisions will be discussed, tested, and owned
Typical duration: approximately 3 hours
How the Whole Brain® Thinking Workshop Works
Team decision baseline – identifies where decisions slow, stall, or fracture today
Whole Brain® framework – provides a practical model for understanding thinking diversity
Team thinking profile – paints a visual map of how the team approaches decisions
Pressure patterns – reveals what gets emphasized or overlooked under stress
Live application – practice working through a real, current team decision
Decision agreements – establish shared norms the team commits to using going forward once the workshop is done
What Teams Walk Away With
New decision and meeting structures they can use immediately and into the future
A shared operating language for decision-making
A clearer understanding of how the team thinks under pressure
More durable commitments that translate into execution
The result is not insight alone. The Whole Brain® Thinking Workshop provides leadership teams and project teams with practical skills and a reliable framework for working together now and into the future.
Common Use Cases
Teams commonly use this workshop when:
Strategic decisions keep getting revisited
Project timelines slip due to unclear ownership or alignment
Cross-functional teams struggle to balance speed and confidence
Leaders want decisions to hold up beyond the meeting
Case Study
A cross-functional project team facing aggressive deadlines used the workshop to understand why decisions kept stalling. They discovered a problem: operations needed certainty, but sales pushed for speed. These competing workflows led to a situation where the group never fully considered the risks of each decision.
By applying Whole Brain® Thinking, the team came together to create a framework for how decisions would be evaluated and executed. This set up more efficient, more effective pathways that reduced misfires, rework, and delays in later phases.
Pricing
Pricing reflects a premium, facilitated team workshop and varies by team size, format, and scope. Most team engagements represent a meaningful investment for senior leadership and intact teams and are typically positioned in the mid-four to low-five figure range.
Conversations start with a short Decision Readiness discussion to confirm fit before scope and pricing are finalized.
The Measure of Success
Leadership teams and project teams who participate in the Whole Brain® Thinking Workshop are better able to navigate complex decision-making processes and high-stakes execution together.
The techniques learned and practiced during the workshop develop and enhance innate leadership and teamwork skills. This helps team members stay on the same page and move forward in a common direction during times of inaction (analysis paralysis), high stress, and transformation.
The Whole Brain® Thinking Workshop helps leadership teams and project teams make better decisions—together—when it matters most.
What Happens Next: Decision Readiness Conversation
Before moving forward, we start with a focused conversation to:
Understand the decisions your team is facing
Confirm whether this approach fits your situation
Clarify scope, timing, and participants
“When one of our team members suggested we use HBDI I was initially skeptical. But with Michael’s expertise, thoroughness, and insight we are now a more productive and focused group.”
About the Facilitator
Michael Kutner
Michael Kutner works with Leaders, Founders, HR and their teams to improve decision quality and execution. As a Certified HBDI® Practitioner for over 10 years, Michael improved outcomes for hundreds of leaders and teams. His work integrates Whole Brain® Thinking with practical facilitation and engaging workshop design. Teams leave with new ways of thinking together—not just new language.