Whole Brain® Thinking Blog

Herrmann’s Whole Brain® Thinking blog is your source for insights and advice on how to apply Whole Brain® Thinking to your team’s daily workflows.

Conflict Resolution in the Workplace: Strategies for Modern Leaders

Leadership Development Strategies That Drive Results

Best Practices for More Effective Remote Meetings

Best Alternatives to the Myers-Briggs Test in the Workplace

Work Style Assessments: What Are They and How Do They Work?

How Work Personality Types Shape Workplace Dynamics

Management Personality Tests: Do They Develop Stronger Leaders?

How to Use Personality Tests for Team Building at Work

Cracking the Collaboration Code: 6 Workplace Challenges HBDI® Pair Profiles Can Help Fix

Business Personality Tests—Are They the Best Tool for Teams?

Employee Personality Tests: Which One Is Best for Your Team?

Group Personality Tests—Do They Support Stronger Teams?

Create Better Team Meeting Agendas With Whole Brain® Thinking

How to Kickstart Innovation on Your Team

To Solve a Problem, First You Have to Define It

Understand Yourself Better as a Leader

How to Identify Knowledge Gaps in Your Team

Declare Your Independence from Limitations: Unlock Your Full Creative Potential

Achieving Team Alignment with Whole Brain® Thinking

These Team Building Exercises Will Prepare Your Team to Win

How to Become an Adaptive Thinker

Diagnosing and Solving Miscommunication in the Workplace

The HBDI® vs Other Assessments

Managing the Limits of Psychological Safety: A Whole Brain® Approach

Leading Transformational Change With Whole Brain® Thinking

Turning Market Disruption Into New-Market Dominance

How to Learn Something New Every Day

Mind Hacks to Help You Grow Beyond What You Know

Combine 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace & Whole Brain® Thinking

Get Head of Quiet Quitting With Whole Brain® Thinking

How Team Leaders Can Use AI in Meetings

5 Steps to Overcoming Meeting Fatigue

4 Steps to More Effective Virtual Communication

4-Day Work Week

What Is Time and Energy Management, and Why Does It Matter?

Create a Professional Development Plan Template With Whole Brain® Thinking

Use Your HBDI® Profile to Create a Personal User Guide

Stop & Think now available on Microsoft Teams app store!

How a Winning Team Culture Succeeds With Whole Brain® Thinking

How Your Job Can Shape Your Brain and Cognitive Abilities

6 Team Meeting Ideas to Improve Engagement

SOC 2 Type 2: Ensuring Your Company's Data Security with Herrmann

Thriving in a VUCA World: Building Resilience

Unlock Communication With Team-Building Activities

How Stop & Think Helps you Start and Grow Your Team

Navigating Change in the Workplace: A Guide for Your Team

Herrmann Gives Back to the Children with a Smile

Overcoming Communication Challenges in the Workplace

Make Your Meetings Work with Stop & Think

How Whole Brain® Thinking Fosters Collaborative Brainstorming

Use Your Whole Brain® to Ignite Demand

6 Simple Habits to Manage Your Energy in a Rapidly Changing World

5 Ways to Use Stop & Think to Strengthen Your Team

A 40 Year Journey

Why Leaders Must Make Time for Deep Thinking

Managing the Threat of Business Disruption with Whole Brain® Thinking

Discovering The Power of Pause

Sharing Your Whole Brain® Thinking Preferences to Power Up Your Teams

Podcast: How We Drive Outbound Strategies & Inbound Efforts

How to Build Trust in a Virtual Team

How Stress Affects Rational Thinkers and What You Can Do About It

Top 4 Challenges Managers and Teams are Facing

Positioning Our Global Staff for a 4-Day Work Pilot

Sharing and Pairs within the Herrmann Platform

7 Power Gaps Women Face In The Workplace

A Whole Brain® Thinking Approach to Hybrid Work

Client Spotlight: AND Digital's Enhanced Whole Brain® Journey

How Will You Manage in the New Year?

How the Pandemic Fueled the Fire for Product Innovation at Herrmann

Holidays: A Time of Sharing in a Whole Brain® Way

Finding New “Ahas!” in the Self-Paced Journey Experience

How Can We Use HBDI® to Help Us to Be Awesome Time Managers?

5 Ways to Stop Procrastinating Right Now

SOC 2: What You Need to Know about Data Security and Herrmann

Energy Management Habit 6: Ask for H.E.L.P.

Energy Management Habit 5: Take Care of Your Body!

Energy Management Habit 4: Be Mindful!

Energy Management: Building Positive Relationships in a Virtual World

Energy Management Habit 2: Practice Flexible Thinking

Energy Management Habit 1: Managing Your Mindset

Six Simple Habits To Manage Your Energy In A Rapidly Changing World

3 New Tools for Running a Remote Team

How to Set the Stage for an Effective Day of Understanding

Ideas for Inspiring Successful Virtual Team Kickoffs: 2025

3 Ways the HBDI® Assessment Benefits Hybrid and Remote Teams

Managing Organizational Change in a Remote Workplace

5 Tips for Leading Team Meetings People Won't Hate

4 Ways the Herrmann Platform Keeps Thinkers Engaged After a Debrief

Resilience for Growth: Decode It, Build It, Sustain It

Why Hiring for Culture Fit No Longer Fits

Overcoming Mental Blocks with Whole Brain® Thinking

Entrepreneurial Thinking and Teaching with Your Whole Brain®

What Does a CEO Brain Profile Look Like?

We Stand with our Black Team Members, Clients and Thinkers

Introducing the “Next Normal” Productivity Grader

How to Keep Virtual Workplaces Engaged, Productive and Happy

How to Embrace Asynchronous Work in Your Team

7 Work From Home Learnings: A Whole Brain® Experience in Remote Work

Best Practices for Successful Remote Onboarding

Aligning Your Team During Times of Change and Uncertainty

Effective Leadership During Crisis: A Whole Brain® Guide

Supporting Our Global Whole Brain® Community in Responding to COVID-19

5 Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity When Working Remotely

Whole Brain Innovators Recognized with Big Thinker Award

What We All Need When Facing Change

Whole Brain Thinking in Design

Whole Brain Sprint Reviews

Whole Brain® Stories

How Managers Can Make or Break M&A Integration

4 Pain Points Employees Will Face During a Merger or Acquisition

Data Security and Herrmann: What You Need to Know About GDPR and More

Announcement — See Ann Herrmann-Nehdi and Regent Cornell of Ultimate Software Share the Secrets of Return on Intelligence at ATD Conference!

7 Negotiation Tips for Achieving Win-Win Outcomes

Feeling Stuck? 5 Tips to Get Moving Again

How to Prepare for Stress-Free Time Off From Work

How to Encourage Creative Thinking in Your Team

Why You Need a Not-to-Do List (And How to Create One)

What's Your Next Move? Growing Your Career in the Gig Economy

HBDI® vs MBTI®

The Workplace of the Future is Yours to Build

5-Minute Team-Building Activities With Whole Brain® Thinking

This Employee Assessment Takes You Outside the Box

Navigate Uncertainty Like a Pro with These Agile Thinking Secrets

HBDI® in Action: Why Discomfort Leads to Better Thinking

More is Not Always Better: How to Improve Communication at Work

Improve Email Communication by Asking Yourself 4 Simple Questions

What to Do When Turnover Hits Your Dream Team

The HBDI® vs StrengthsFinder®

The Power of the Pause: Managing Employees Who Are Too Busy to Think

5 Signs You Could Use an Employee Assessment

Creative Thinking Not Your Thing? Think Again!

Introducing a Brand New Look for Herrmann®

How to Get Business Impact Out of Employee Assessments

DiSC® vs. HBDI®

6 Must-Have Tips for Using Thinking Styles in Job Design

Teach Your Employees How to Deal With Fear So They Can Get Ahead

How to Build a High-Performing Multigenerational Sales Team

How a Team Dashboard Can Improve Collaboration

How to Create Mentoring Relationships That Really Work

Whole Brain® Thinking in Action: Software Development Walk-Around

No More Snoozers: How to Lead an Effective Meeting

What Does Sales Coaching Look Like on a Great Sales Team?

35 Thinking Tips and Applications to Celebrate Brain Awareness Week

9 Whole Brain® Negotiation Tips to Help You Win More Deals and Build Stronger Relationships

Tune In: 9 Podcasts to Stretch Your Thinking

Watch Now: Think Like Your Future Depends On It, Because it Does

Buying is About Thinking: How to Get Inside Your Customer’s Head

Why Your Sales Training Isn't Making an Impact

Should We Be Mindful?

This Is Why Your Creativity Initiatives Are Failing

Think Before You Resolve: How to Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions

The Perfect Holiday Gift? Quick Tips for Smarter Stress Management!

5 Learner Mind Hacks To Help You Grow Beyond What You Know

Be a Learner, Not a Knower

So Many Reasons To Be Thankful

Embracing Entrepreneurial Thinking for Greater Employee Engagement

The Brain & the Future of Learning: A Q&A with Ann Herrmann-Nehdi

Why You Should Reconnect With Your Teenage Risk-Taking Brain

Why We Instituted Meetingless Mondays

7 Yoga Poses for Better Thinking

The Real Reason They're Not Reading Your Emails

How Leaders Can Create Personalized Learning at Work

Your Role as a Leader in Retaining Talent

Failure IS An Option: Olympic Lessons in Resilience

Creative Thinking Tips Inspired by Pokémon GO’s Development

Managing Introversion and Extroversion in the Workplace Using Whole Brain® Thinking

How to Motivate People: The Whole Brain® Model Gives Us a Few Clues

15 Ways to Celebrate World Brain Day

Uncovering the Truth Behind Generational Thinking Style Trends

Improve Employee Satisfaction by Rethinking the Workplace Experience

How Coca-Cola Great Britain Improved Cross-Functional Communications

5 Employee Engagement Questions to Ask Your Team

Best Employee Training for Recent Grads? Creating Lifelong Learners

4 Questions Your Boss Has About Leadership Development Programs

Improving Employee Productivity: 4 Spring Cleaning Tips for the Brain

How to Cross Train Your Brain

3 Filters for the 'Buzz' Around Neuroscience in Learning

Why World-Class Talent Doesn’t Always Make a World-Class Team

5 Winning Talent Acquisition Strategies of Championship Teams

The Secret to Maximizing Sales Effectiveness? Use the Force

The Best Leadership Styles Aren’t One-Size-Fits-All

Why Your Management Training Programs Might be Limiting Their Success

Don't Waste Your Money on Communication Skills Training

4 Signs You Should Invest In Better Employee Assessment Tools

One Thing to Know About Your Brain That Will Change Everything

Employee Training Programs: A Cross-Training Regimen for the Brain

3 Tips for Overcoming the Frustrations of Collaboration

Want to Accelerate Innovation? Embrace the Power of "And"

How to Manage Corporate Reorganizations Without the Headaches

Is Your Innovation Strategy Bearing Fruit?

Why Problem Solving Starts with Problem Definition

How to Use Problem-Solving Examples to Improve Team Performance

4 Steps to Integrate Thinking into Your Team-Building Exercises

The Hidden Costs of Always Being 'Right'

Employee Engagement Hinges on “Thinking Managers”

5 Tips to Boost Your Productivity with Whole Brain® Thinking

3 Strategies for Increasing Mindfulness and Productivity

A Powerful Learning Tool: Seating Based on Thinking Preference

Employee Engagement and Retention: What You Don’t Know Could Cost You

How to Handle the Leadership Challenges of a Changing World