HBDI™ Services

The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI™) helps people and organizations gain greater insight into how individuals think, communicate, and work. This enables people to harness the power of their thinking for improved productivity, creativity, and fulfillment.

Developed by Ned Herrmann while a manager at General Electric, the HBDI™ is based on over twenty years of research and is the framework of the Whole Brain Model™. This scientifically proven model can be used to improve communication, enhance teamwork, reduce cost, and increase productivity.

• Whole Brain Thinking™

Rather than assessing individual skills or abilities, the HBDI™ measures a person’s preferences for different thinking styles. Thinking styles affect how different individuals perceive information, make decisions, solve problems and communicate with others.

Awareness of one’s own thinking styles and the ability to understand and use different styles is known as Whole Brain Thinking™. This way of thinking is critical to effectively meeting organizational and customer needs. Whole Brain training can help you and your team think outside the box and better understand the diversity of thinking styles within the organization. We offer a number of HBDI™ services and workshops to help you integrate Whole Brain Thinking™ into your business. Whole Brain Thinking™ can help you:

• Use management styles that work with the people you manage and the organizational culture
• Align employees with the work that they do best
• Maximize the success of specific projects and tasks  
• Find creative solutions for complex problems

• HBDI™ Services

These services help you identify styles and use that knowledge to work more effectively and efficiently.

• Individual Profiles
• Pair Profiles
• Team Profiles 
• Education, Training, Coaching, and Consulting

• HBDI™ Workshops

Our workshops are customized to meet the needs of your group or organization. The above workshops last between 1 ½ and 3 hours and can be conducted during a breakfast or lunch meeting at your workplace.

• Creative Problem Solving
• Whole Brain™ Decision Making
• Whole Brain™ Strategic Planning
• Whole Brain™ Teaching & Learning
• Whole Brain™ Teams
  

“HBDI™” and “Whole Brain Thinking™” are registered trademarks of Herrmann International.

HBDI™ Based Services

We offer a number of services that incorporate the HBDI™ Whole Brain Model, a tool used by many corporations to promote teamwork, improve productivity, develop leadership and management skills, minimize conflict, and promote collaboration. To learn more click here.

Other Programs

• Building Effective Teams

Supervisors and managers play a vital role in ensuring high performance from staff, effective teamwork, and increased productivity, and maintaining employee morale. This session examines the roles of coach, counselor, and mentor that supervisors must play. These programs look at behavioral differences and why and how people behave the way that they do. Participants will learn how to build their workplace into a committed team of people with excellent relationship skills.

Program Segments:

• Coaching, Counseling, and Mentoring Employees
• Building Effective Communication Skills in the Workplace
• Managing in a Multigenerational Workplace.

• Leading Effective Meetings

Every good meeting has certain qualities: a purpose, an agenda, participants that understand their roles, and an effective facilitator. Our programs teach tools and techniques to help conduct good meetings. Participants will learn how to plan for an effective meeting by setting goals and determining an agenda. Participants will also learn skills that will help them facilitate meetings. These programs will also cover other tips for making presentations or trainings more effective. 

Program Segments:

• Planning for Effective Meetings: A Review of the Basics
• Leading Successful Meetings: Building Facilitation Skills
• Communicating Effectively: Adjusting for Different Styles,
  Temperaments & Generations
  
• Working with Problem Participants
  
• Using Dialogue to Enhance Planning
  

• Resolving Conflicts

In a changing workplace, healthy differences can escalate into conflict. These programs will help you recognize signs of conflict, assess the impact of conflict on your employees and organization, choose effective intervention strategies, and handle conflict related discussions effectively.

Program Segments:

• Managing Change: Challenges and Opportunities
• Resolving Conflicts: Practicing Different Approaches
• Using Dialogue to Resolve Conflicts
• Understanding and Minimizing Intergenerational Conflicts

• Diversity Programs

These programs focus on promoting tolerance or confronting hate within an organization or community group or in a community group’s interaction with others. We have a range of programs—from video based programs to study circles to book groups—that can be tailored to your organization. Our programs can include segments on why people hate, how to discuss and address stereotypes, and how to confront intimidating behaviors. Participants take away practical activities that can be put to use to promote tolerance of our differences, and appreciation of our diversity.

• Other Staff Development

Equipping staff with the tools to effectively manage angry customers or co-workers, demanding clients, and the many other challenges of today’s workplace will improve their ability to preserve important relationships, communicate effectively with co workers and supervisors, and manage stress.

Program Segments:

• Dealing with Difficult Clients and Co-Workers
• Managing Stress
• Time Management Skills
  

The following links are provided as resources and do not reflect endorsement by The Communications Center, Inc. of any of the content posted at such sites.

Community Resources

Center for Non-Violent Communication

Hermann International (HBDI™)

National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD)

Southern Poverty Law Center - Teaching Tolerance

Study Circles Resource Center

Other Resources

American Arbitration Association

American Bar Association - Section on Dispute Resolution

Association of Conflict Resolution

Court ADR Resource Center

Association of Missouri Mediators

CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution

Mediate.com

National Association for Community Mediation

Network of Communities for Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution

Policy Consensus Initiative

Resolution Systems Institute

Resolve

US Department of Justice: Office of Dispute Resolution
 

In our diverse society there are many opportunities for conflict. Differences in opinions, feelings, values, and communication styles can cause conflict. When people argue, they stop communicating and often lose sight of common interests and goals. Tension and anxiety stemming from unresolved conflict can adversely affect individuals, families, and the community as a whole. Conflicts can, however, be reduced, managed, and even avoided or resolved, with better information, skills, and processes. As individuals and groups learn to work through and resolve their conflicts they build a sense of community. The Communications Center provides programs, workshops and facilitation services to assist individuals and organizations to build better relationships and accomplish common goals.