Create Highly Effective Teams with Whole Brain® Thinking

Highly effective teams don’t happen by accident. Building and sustaining team success takes time, effort, and diligence.

If your team members are missing deadlines, producing underwhelming work, or spending too much time on simple tasks, look closer at their ability to trust, adapt, and perform. Often, underperformance comes down to poor self-awareness and misunderstandings among team members.

Herrmann’s Team Effectiveness Solution is designed to help people learn new problem-solving, communication, decision-making and innovation skills by applying the Whole Brain® Thinking methodology to daily interactions with their teams.

What Is the Herrmann Team Effectiveness Solution?

The Team Effectiveness Solution includes a comprehensive suite of diagnostics, digital tools, and collaboration rituals.

The program is designed in six integrated phases that are iterative — allowing leaders and teams to choose the tools and resources they need based on their contextual challenges. Teams get access to a comprehensive suite of diagnostics, digital tools, and collaboration rituals designed to improve team dynamics and performance.

Whole Brain® Thinking Can Build 66% More Productive Teams

Benefits for Your Team

Build Your Team’s Intelligence

Apply what you learn about everyone’s thinking preferences to work more productively and inclusively at scale, whether in person, remote, or hybrid.

The Team Effectiveness Solution empowers individuals to identify their own and each other’s strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. This increased self-awareness helps leaders identify and address areas of conflict.

Harness Cognitive Diversity for Creative Problem Solving

Reduce unproductive conflict and groupthink by empowering your executives, managers, teams, and individuals to apply everyone’s thinking preferences, swiftly identify threats, and compete in a fast-changing environment.

Cognitive diversity encourages deeper analysis and dialogue, helping team members become more likely to hear and seek out perspectives different from their own. They can consider problems from new angles and build innovative solutions that wouldn't have been possible within a homogenous group. When teams look at a problem from new perspectives, they improve the odds of good decision-making and strong outcomes.

Improve Communication and Collaboration

Accelerate knowledge transfer for on-site, remote, and hybrid teams using learnings from the Team Effectiveness Solution.

Teams can integrate proven Whole Brain practices into their daily workflow to better share their ideas, answer questions, and innovate together everyday. The solution ensures team development happens over time, increasing its permanence and creating a long-term impact.

Because communication is strongly linked to cognition, understanding thinking preferences can help inform each team member’s communication preferences. Team Workshops develop communication guidelines that ensure important ideas and messages flow smoothly across the group, no matter what.

Gain Visibility Into How Your Teams Think and Work Best

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Diagnostics and dashboards allow you to gain inputs from team members and track team performance over time. The result is helping teams make more effective, proactive team decisions while looking retrospectively at how to improve team dynamics.

How Does the Team Effectiveness Solution Work?

By applying digital tools, work sessions, and individual learning, leaders can attack dysfunction from all angles while developing internal capabilities that promote growth. By leveraging the cognitive diversity of individuals, teams can improve their interactions and innovation.

The journey begins with the highly acclaimed HBDI® assessment, which creates a common language and understanding around the thinking preferences of everyone on the team.

Armed with this baseline awareness of themselves, members of the team can work together to identify their biggest challenges and map out a journey to overcome them using a comprehensive suite of diagnostics, digital tools, and collaboration rituals.

A Certified Practitioner is designated and trained to support the application of Whole Brain® Thinking across teams, with support from Champions.

A guided road map supports leaders in utilizing these tools in an iterative, ongoing way that promotes permanent, long-term team effectiveness.

Trusted By

Solving problems is much easier if we understand how each team member approaches problems with their thinking preferences! This has been an epiphany regarding team composition and chemistry through the years. I have literally worked on teams who could not get along at all with each other until we shared thinking preferences based on HBDI® profiles. Before HBDI®, infighting and stagnation — after HBDI®, production and distributed leadership decision-making!

Matt Schuyler

Chief Brand Officer

Create and Support Highly Effective Teams

Whole Brain® Thinking, the HBDI® assessment, and the Herrmann platform have helped teams better understand how their individual contributions can benefit the group and create better results for over 40 years. Start by better understanding the factors contributing to team underperformance, such as poor communication. Then, look at what factors can most effectively improve your team’s performance, starting with cognitive diversity.

When team members embrace each other’s unique thinking preferences and work together toward a common goal, you can create a highly effective team that's more than the sum of its parts.

Whole Brain® Thinking for Highly Effective Teams

What Is the Herrmann Team Effectiveness Solution?

Benefits for Your Team

Build Your Team’s Intelligence

Harness Cognitive Diversity for Creative Problem Solving

Improve Communication and Collaboration

Gain Visibility Into How Your Teams Think and Work Best

How Does the Team Effectiveness Solution Work?

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Create and Support Highly Effective Teams

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