Distilled Leadership Provides Whole Brain Thinking Assessments for Leaders and Teams In Philadelphia
We’ve all heard of right brain thinking versus left brain thinking. But that is an imprecise model. Each one of us thinks in ways that are much more complex. The Whole Brain Thinking Model takes into account the many different factors that indicate how we think. It is more accurate – and therefore more useful as a leadership development tool.
Using the Whole Brain Thinking Model, leaders can improve their skills to become “ambidextrous” thinkers: being able to actually change the way they think based on the situation. We are all born with this potential, but like many skills, we need to develop it.
The first step is to identify our innate thinking preferences.
The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) is a powerful, intuitive assessment tool that helps you understand how you think and what you emphasize in your decision-making process. That’s important because how you think affects how you lead. It’s not a matter of one style of thinking being better than another. Instead, it’s about realizing the advantages and pitfalls of your particular thinking biases, and adjusting accordingly. You’ll become:
Better at changing your thinking style based on the situation
Better prepared to manage personalities on your team
More informed about how to approach your career path
Ultimately, you’ll become a stronger, more decisive leader
Michael Kutner brings the Whole Brain Thinking assessment tool to companies in Philadelphia. This powerful tool provides valuable insights into how you think so you can improve how you lead.
How Does the Whole Brain Thinking Assessment Work?
The HBDI is a validated and reliable assessment tool similar to DiSC, Meyers-Briggs and other related assessments. However, the HBDI is not a personality assessment. It is a cognitive-based tool tied to the physiological makeup of the brain. The Whole Brain Model measures your preferences for certain patterns of thinking that influence how you communicate, think about risk, and make decisions.
One of the most unique reports provided by the HBDI profile is seeing how your thinking style may change during times of stress. This is why taking your HBDI and learning what it shows is a much more valuable tool for improving your leadership effectiveness.
This comprehensive tool measures your thinking style in multi-dimensional ways:
Analytical vs. Creative Thinking
Organized vs. Emotional Thinking
Theoretical vs. Realistic Thinking
Other factors including your spot on the introversion/extroversion scale
How your thinking style changes under stress
With the help of your personal leadership coach Michael Kutner, you’ll pinpoint exactly what type of thinker you are, providing tremendous insights into your leadership style. The Whole Brain Model improves leadership skills by building self-awareness and, in conjunction with one-on-one coaching, improving your ability to adapt your own thinking practices.
The Whole Brain Thinking assessment tool gives you insights into your leadership effectiveness that you can’t get any other way.
“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.”
Whole Brain Thinking and Personal Leadership Coaching
You can use the HBDI assessment tool as a standalone test or as part of personal leadership coaching. Michael tailors a personalized, highly effective one-on-one coaching program and a customized Leadership Action Plan based on the assessment results and your leadership goals.
Michael adds his own Distilled Leadership coaching style to the mix, weaving in all the lessons he’s learned throughout his long corporate career along with insights across multiple areas and industries like the bourbon industry. (Yes, bourbon!)
Coaching sessions are available in-person in the Philadelphia area – with social distancing as necessary. Virtual coaching via phone, Zoom, or similar videoconferencing technology is available everywhere you are.
Contact Distilled Leadership to learn more about Whole Brain Thinking or to take your assessment.
The Whole Brain Model Helps with Team Building, Too
Michael Kutner provides companies in Philadelphia with Whole Brain Model sessions, in-person or via Zoom. (Thanks to virtual technology, Michael can connect with your team outside of Philadelphia too, no matter where they are in the country — and beyond.)
Not only can the HBDI assessment tool help you understand how you and your team think individually, you learn how that thinking affects your group dynamics. Once again, Michael will lead you and your team through the results. The real strength of the tool is that it takes the complex and multiple points of data from all team members and distills them into results that can easily be interpreted. This helps you and your team:
Understand your particular team dynamics better
Realize how changes under stress affect individuals and the team as a whole
Appreciate why people on the team get along better with some than with others – and what you can do to improve working relationships
Identify how decisions tend to be made in the group, and what you might do differently
Discover why your group isn’t working as well together as it could, and learn how to fix it
As with one-on-one sessions above, Whole Brain Thinking assessments can be done as standalone sessions or as part of a wider team building program.
Learn more about how the Whole Brain Model can help you by contacting Distilled Leadership for a free consultation.