Communication is a leadership discipline that must be trained and kept up constantly. Therefore, your communication as a leader is a general topic at the BPL courses.
HBDI
Since Lasse Zäll fist met the American brain researcher Ned Hermann in the beginning of the 80's, Pathfinder has used the HBDI (Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument) at the Pathfinder programme. We also use the HBDI tool and mindset at the BPL courses.
HBDI focuses on our preferred approach, when solving tasks. HBDI and the profiles we each have can help to obtain a better insight in preferred thinking, conducting, and communication patterns. This insight makes it possible to make our own patterns more effective, but also easier to understand other people's patterns. That is an essential insight, for example when having to motivate a team. HBDI focuses on the strength of differences and diversity and to derive advantage from this diversity in order to achieve a higher level of creativity and performance in a team.
HBDI is developed in 1976 by Ned Hermann on the basis of 15 years of brain research and both practical and theoretical knowledge of the brain.
At the BPL courses we use, among other things, HBDI to talk about effective communication, to focus on the team, and how you create motivation and make people commit to the task.
Different ways of thinking
In Beyond Project Leadership™ our work will include different ways of thinking. Research has shown that the brain has four very distinct and specialised structures, which correspond roughly to four different ways of thinking.
Everyone can use all four ways of thinking, but everyone has their favourite way: some are predominantly analytical; others are structured or concept-oriented; while others have a much more emotional approach to challenges.
Under pressure these ways of thinking undergo changes. There is no right or wrong way of thinking. All are of equal importance and it is vitally important to establish the ways of thinking at work in the team, if you are to get the best out of the team’s diversity and achieve a flow in terms of their communication and a fruitful approach to the project.
