Sticky Learning Lunch #55 - HBDI Model & Whole Brain Thinking #1

In this HBDI model #1, find out more about the HBDI Whole Brain Thinking ®. Do you want to understand more about the way you prefer to think, communicate, and make decisions using the HBDI ® assessment? Using the HBDI ® assessment, understand how you can use your profile to help adapt your thinking, decision-making, and communication style to improve audience engagement. Identify how to improve team effectiveness, through better problem-solving and effective feedback.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon, sticky learners. Hello. Sticky learners. Maybe that's a thing. Maybe my, I think hi sticky learners. Hey, welcome to Tuesday. Uh, we are just gonna give it a few more minutes while we're waiting for the last people to arrive. Just coming into the room. Hope everyone is well today. Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine on this fine Tuesday. Let's have a bit of a roll call. Angelique, good to see you. I, I believe this is the first time. Apologies if I've got that wrong. Really great to have you here, Cameron. Good to see you again. Colin, Darren, Fabian, Howard, Martin, Victoria. Thank you everyone for being here. It's very appreciated.

Nathan Simmonds:

I know there's a handful of people still yet to come in on their way. He says, let's get everyone set up for success as we're just starting this day. Let's make sure mobile phones hold 'em high. Let's make sure the little airplane is lit up. And let's zero out the distraction. A hundred percent attention on what you are doing here today. Also, making sure that you've got a drink available. Let's keep the brain hydrated and lubricated and make the learning stick.

Nathan Simmonds:

And then also making sure you've got a fresh sheet for fresh thinking. So making sure you've got a clean sheet there, ready to get down your notes. No, it's not Sate Night fever. This is just a change of color scheme, Darren, um, The fresh sheet. Fresh thinking. As always, it's about making sure that you are taking notes. We're gonna be some, sharing some different ideas from different perspectives on how you can approach how you interact and interate with people. So it's gonna be absolutely vital that you are getting down some of these ideas that you want to remember, that you want to reread so you can reignite that thinking when you come back to it later.

Nathan Simmonds:

Keep the ideas expanding. I think we are pretty much good to go. So welcome to Sticky Learning Lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM and with Andy Palmer, resident expert in HBD. I always get the initials wrong. H remind me Andy, HBDI. No, you're right. HBD. Yeah, HB DI was right. I got confused at the last bit. Let's going a smooth thought. I like it.

Nathan Simmonds:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. HBDI From MBM, the Homo Stick learning. This is where it gets confusing is 'cause there's too many, you know, too many initials and acronyms going on. So now the idea of these sessions is to help you be the best version of you in the work that you do and preparing you for that return back to the office. And we wanna share these ideas which are gonna help you to expand what it is you do and how you interact. The reason we do that is because MBM is the home of leadership development and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industries. We understand how important it's that we do interact and relate with you, with each other at the highest possible level. So, Andy, what are we covering today?

Andy Palmer:

HBDI, we're gonna come profile. So, um, lots of psychometric tests out there. You will have come across some of them I'm sure in your, uh, careers. Me Briggs be being five B insights, discs. There is a whole host of them and they're all particularly good in their own individual ways. Um, today, tomorrow and the next day, we're gonna be talking about the HBDI, the Herman profile. Um, we're selecting this one because one, it's a personal favorite of mine 'cause I'm absolutely confident and can guarantee within about the next 20 minutes, you're gonna go, you know what, I get that. I can see how I can use it.

Andy Palmer:

And then we're gonna spend the next couple of days really getting into how you can practically use it, different parts of the application, how you can make this thing live and breathe if you so wish, uh, in your businesses or in your personal life. So yes, we're talking about the Herman profile. I'm gonna refer to it as the Herman profile just 'cause it's less of a mouthful. Um, but HBDI stands for Hermann Brain Dominance Instruments. So that's the mouthful bit. Let's refer to it as, uh, the Hermann profile. That's what we're covering next three days. Nathan,

Nathan Simmonds:

Want me on mute? So there, I'm on back in the room. So where are we going to, first of all, for day one then?

Andy Palmer:

Yeah, so today is just, um, no, it's not just anything today is an introduction to what actually is this, uh, profile, what is this assessment? Um, and helping our audience today to go, oh, that's interesting. I want to know more about that. And, and hopefully then the next couple of days really builds on that. So yeah, today is about an introduction to the Herman profile. Bring it to life. What are the colors, um, what does it mean, how can I use it? And uh, yeah, we'll see where it takes us in terms of individual's questions. So if you've got them, get them in that chat window. Nathan will feed them through to me. Uh, test me, challenge me, question it. Let's, uh, let's see if we can really bring this, uh, this to life.

Nathan Simmonds:

I'm smiling now because

Andy Palmer:

No.

Nathan Simmonds:

I'm just smiling because Mohammad's comes training. Is it like six hats? What was I mentioning literally 30 seconds ago?

Andy Palmer:

Brilliant. Um, is it like six hats? Um, oh, . I've got four hats. Okay. Um, different topic, different way of approaching different situations. So, um, I'm, I'm gonna suspend, um, kind of thoughts on that and I'll allow him happy to kind of make his own decision over the next 20 minutes. So, amazing. Brilliant. One thing. Go,

Nathan Simmonds:

One thing I was gonna say, Andy, was, you know, before we dive into that, this is gonna be a three part miniseries that we're doing. So we're gonna cover some of different elements over the next three days. I have put in the chat box already there, down the bottom, he says, bear with me the link there for tomorrow's session. So if you have not already registered, now is the time to make sure you click through that and get yourself onto the future sessions, um, and get yourself a, a seat in the room. So, Andy Floor's yours.

Andy Palmer:

Brilliant, thanks Nathan. Okay, background to this, uh, Herman profile called, so because it was developed by a gentleman called Ned Herman. Ned Herman worked for General Electric over in America in the fifties and sixties. Uh, he was part of their l and d function at the time. Uh, they knew there was a, a left hand and a right hand side of the brain. And he hypothesized that coupled with the upper and lower quadrants of the brain. And they were responsible for different thinking preferences.

Andy Palmer:

So he went to his boss as you could back in the day and said, Hey, got this idea what said fascinating. I want you to go off and explore it. So he did. So he tested it, developed it, and he's come up with what we know is today as the Herman HBDI profile. What effectively it does is give you and the people around you a better understanding of how you prefer to think, communicate, and make decisions.

Andy Palmer:

This is based on preferences that you have and how you see the world. Okay? What it isn't is something that limits you by going, oh, I'm only this, or I'm only this. I can't possibly do the other things. It's really about whole brain thinking and understanding where your true preferences actually sit to allow you then to adapt yourself to certain situations, be more tolerant and understanding of others, and then really get into the, the core of this, which is that about challenging yourself to, to kind of do things differently, do things better, and absolutely bring to life yourself and those around you.

Andy Palmer:

And I think it absolutely summed up perfectly, and I'll quote there on that slide there, by understanding yourself, you can learn to value and understand others once you've got that rock and roll, the world your oyster. So how does this work? Um, I'm gonna refer to, um, our different quadrants in the colors. Um, but what effectively we've got is a left hand and the right hand side of our brain. Effectively, our brain's about that big, um, no relation to the size of your hand. So don't worry if you've got particularly small hands, but you've got a left hand and a right hand side of your brain. What you've also got is an upper and lower part of your brain. At the top half. You've got your cerebral mode, which is our, um, uh, the part of the brain we developed over the majority of species on the planet.

Andy Palmer:

Uh, it's our cerebral mode that almost differentiates us apart from the majority of other, uh, species around there. Uh, some of the grapes have this as well, just not as developed as ourselves. So our cerebral mode at the top, we've then got our limbic mode, bottom half of our brain, bottom half, but more bottom half up here, our limbic mode. And that's taking into account these two quadrants at the bottom below that, there is something called the reptilian brain. Sits right at the top of your spinal column. That's the part of the brain that, uh, takes care of our basic functions. Respiratory, it tells us when we're hungry, tells us when we're thirsty. Um, some of the flight fights or freeze mechanisms also sits in there.

Andy Palmer: