Sticky Learning Lunch #56 - HBDI Model & Whole Brain Thinking #2

In this HBDI model #2, 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 lunches. Welcome to Crikey. What day are we on now? Wednesday. Wonderful. Wednesday grand. We're just waiting for the last few people to arrive in the room. As always. Let's give it a few moments to see who is appearing. Good afternoon, Colin. Fabian, great to see you, Martin. Thank you very much for being here, Mohammed. Thanks for being there again, Tim, great to see you. More people arriving. Ah, so as always, before we dive in to make sure the mobile phones hold 'em high, get the little airplane lit up, let's get the distraction zeroed out.

Nathan Simmonds:

A hundred percent attention on what we're doing here and making sure that we're focused on this. Making sure you've got a drink available. Let's keep yourselves hydrated. Keep your brain lubricated, making sure this learning is sticking. And then finally, making sure that you've got a fresh page for fresh thinking.

Nathan Simmonds:

It's about making sure that you can get down those things that you want to remember, that you want to reread, so you can reignite that thinking and help, that help expand those ideas that are coming into this, this new learning that you are gonna experience today. So, new faces and some friendly faces. I'm not saying the new friendly faces aren't friendly, but it's good to see you all. Cindy, thanks for being here, Victoria. Thank you, Gareth, wonderful to see you again. Uh, I think we are good to go. So welcome to today's Sticky Learning lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM, the Home of Sticky Learning.

Nathan Simmonds:

And we are the leadership development and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. Idea of these sessions is to help you be the best version of you in the work that you do wherever you are, whether that's working from home or whether that's in the office or returning to the office, doesn't matter. It's about giving you some new skills, new mindset that's gonna help improve what you are doing on a daily basis. Andy, Andy Palmer, resident expert, HBDI. How are you? Where are we going today?

Andy Palmer:

Doing well, Nathan rocking shirt, by the way.

Nathan Simmonds:

Thank you very much.

Andy Palmer:

Wait for the comment boxes to fill up on it. So I've thought a pre-emp it. And

Nathan Simmonds:

The funny thing is, I'm looking at this on the camera, and actually it's, you see it is, the color has been muted on my cam on my camera. It's even brighter than that in real life. And there's some hidden flamingos in there.

Andy Palmer:

Good stuff. Excellent. Okay, where we're going today, we are going to build on what we talked about yesterday of what is the HBDI Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument, um, bring it further to life with practical application. So we're gonna spend some time today looking at that a little bit more time tomorrow. And at the same time, we're very keen to have those questions popping up in the chat box as and when you think of them, and we'll deal with those, uh, in the moment. So yeah, today's really about bringing this further to life yesterday, and there's a quick recap.

Andy Palmer:

We talked about this as a psychometric protocol to help you understand how you prefer to think, communicate, and make decisions. And again, coming back to that point of once you can understand yourself, you can start to really value others around you, whether that's in your team, your professional, your personal life. So yesterday we talked, um, about the four quadrants of the brain are cerebral mode, our limbic mode, our left and right hemispheres, and understanding that as a metaphoric model, they're responsible for different thinking, communicating, decision making processes, um, none of which become limited.

Andy Palmer:

It is about self-awareness, and it is about your preferences to allow you to adapt yourself or be mindful of others in given situations. So, yes, so we talked around our four Fs of our blue quadrant being around facts, very logical, very analytical, our green quadrant around form being structured and controlled. Red quadrants about feelings, our interpersonal skills, communicating skills and yellows for futures, holistic and conceptual thinking. We're gonna go at that just once more in a in another way. I'm gonna use four P's this time. He says, as he drops something on the floor, four P's to bring it life a little bit further.

Andy Palmer:

First one payoff. It's the blues. Asking that question of what, what's in it for me? What's gonna happen? And it's about that detail and coming into that. So gonna leave that first p uplift payoff. Second one is about plan for our green. What's the plan? How are we gonna make this happen? What are the steps? What's the sequential order that, uh, we need to take for our red quadrant? It's about people who's involved. How's it going to impact, impact them? Who do we need to get involved?

Andy Palmer:

How do I feel about this? How are they gonna feel about this? And then come around to last but not least, our fourth p around possibilities. And as we talked about yesterday, that yellow quadrant being about ideas and vision and the future and considering what possibilities thought that was worth as, uh, building on my four Fs, bringing in some four P's before we go, any, uh, we get into some good stuff. Make sense, Nathan?

Nathan Simmonds:

Absolute sense. And there's a part, I think there's an element of, there's a, there's like you say, it's not that we aren't any of all or we aren't, we don't have elements of all of those things. We are, we have shades of them. And it's understanding now, if I'm a yellow, you know, it's all about possibilities and it's all about the future. Great. And it's just kind of turning up the dial. Well, what's the payoff for those other people? What's the plan that someone else needs? And what do I need to think about for people in order to make that possibility happen?

Andy Palmer:

Absolutely. From a very blue perspective, and I shared my profile yesterday, um, I look at kind of return on investment, but it doesn't necessarily have to be that. It could be return on ideas or return on interpersonal or return on the, you know, return on the structure. Uh, and we start to understand that people just see things in very different ways and measure outputs in very different ways. Neither, right? Neither wrong. It's just about being mindful and that word I use just around tolerance, that people see the world in, uh, very different ways.

Nathan Simmonds:

Agreed. How are we gonna write the most of this in?

Andy Palmer:

Okay, so, um, brief recap. Done moving into, uh, practical application, all one and good. That once you understand yourself, you can then maybe consider different things. Um, and here's a really powerful way of doing that. We all make presentations. Um, it doesn't necessarily have to be something by a PowerPoint. It could be a presentation, which could just be a one-to-one piece of communication, or it could be a one-page document, or it could indeed be that big PowerPoint deck we're presenting to small or huge groups of people. Key bit to note is we will develop that piece of communication, whether it's written or verbal, whatever medium, um, in a way that we'd want to receive it ourselves.

Andy Palmer:

So by default, as a blue, I would want to receive a presentation in a very blue way. I would want to see the detail and the facts and get down into the absolute detail. But my audience isn't always blues. So I kind of top tip for one of a better word, is let's try and get a tick in each of these boxes when we're putting together a, a, a piece of communication and trying to best limit our risk of it not being as effective as it could be if we don't know who our audience is. And at the same time, it just as allows us some pushes and challenges us to consider different options. So Nathan, I'm gonna ask you to bring up, uh, let's go to slide number 11.

Nathan Simmonds:

Lemme know if you can see that. There it goes. There we go.

Andy Palmer:

Alright, let's go slide number 12 then, because that's not the right one. There we go. Fun animation as well. Alright, so this is about putting a tick in each of these boxes when we're doing that piece of communication. So for our blue quadrant, they want the precise facts and it is all about the what, it's well articulated ideas, but put into a very logical format. So we're talking about data and charts and all the supporting evidence that validates that idea. Blue people also want kind of that critical analysis.

Andy Palmer:

They want that good debate and they want time to be spent wisely. It's very much about the here and now. So if we can answer the what we're on a good starter, we then come down into our green quadrant. This is about the how. So it's about that structure. The people with a high preference to the green want to see a story that unfolds in a very logical way.

Andy Palmer:

They want to nce consistency across the presentation. Um, and they wanna ensure that it's low risk. This quadrant here, often seen as a little bit foot on the brake and certainly risk adverse. So we wanna make sure we're not making anyone feel comfortable by pushing them too quickly into a place that they don't want to go to.