What is the HBDI®?
The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® (HBDI®) is the world’s leading Thinking Styles assessment tool. It identifies your preferred approach to emotional, analytical, structural and strategic thinking. It also provides individuals with a significantly increased level of personal understanding.
How does it work?
The HBDI identifies an individual’s degree of preference for each of the four distinct thinking preferences based on Ned Herrmann’s Whole Brain® Model. The model evolved from a physiological understanding of our brain, the Whole Brain® Model is actually a metaphor for the way we think and is the basis upon which the HBDI was developed. The HBDI, through its series of questions, is capable of measuring the degree of preference between each of the four individual Thinking Styles (quadrants) and each of the four paired structures (modes). This results in a four-quadrant profile, which displays the degree of preference for each of the four quadrants—your HBDI Profile.
HBDI® at Work
The HBDI is a tool for organisational development, leadership development, personal growth and innovation. It helps organisations to improve individual and team effectiveness, productivity and communication
increase creativity that will keep you light years ahead of your competition
consequently, increase performance and bottom-line results.
Team effectiveness/Team cohesion through a better understanding of individual thinking preferences and an exploration of how these thinking preferences impact behaviour and, ultimately team effectiveness.
Once an individual or group has their HBDI Profile, they are better able to understand their Thinking Styles and, more importantly, the impact their Thinking Styles have on the way they learn, communicate, and problem-solve.