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Cognitive Empathy: A Leadership Imperative

In today’s fast-paced and complex work environment, leaders face a critical challenge: how to drive performance while fostering connection, trust, and collaboration. The answer lies in cognitive empathy - the ability to understand how others think and experience the...

Building a Learning Culture: A Manager’s Guide

Creating a learning culture isn’t a project you tick off and forget. It’s a deliberate shift in how work is organised, how leaders behave and how progress is measured. For managers, the task is practical rather than philosophical: design simple systems that make...

Culture as Your Competitive Advantage (and Why Thinking Differently Might Just Save Your Sanity)  

This post is a contribution from Carole Coooper , an HBDI® Certified Practitioner, and Director/Founder of Carole Cooper Consulting . If you’ve ever worked somewhere with a great culture, you feel it the moment you walk in. There’s energy. People...

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Comparing Employee Assessments: MBTI and HBDI

Comparing Employee Assessments: The HBDI® and the MBTI®

In this ongoing blog series, we take a look at the similarities and differences of many employee assessment instruments and how you might use them – individually and together – to achieve your business and talent development needs. For this post, we discuss the...

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The Most Important Talent Management Idea of 2020

Our bet for the biggest idea in management for 2020? Cognitive diversity. Cognitive diversity is a broad concept, but we define it as the differences in the thinking (i.e. cognition, perspective or information processing styles) that people use to process the world...

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Comparing Employee Assessments: HBDI and DISC

Comparing Employee Assessments: DISC® and the HBDI®

This article was originally published in 2020. It has been updated in 2024 and republished to ensure our readers are provided with the most up-to-date insights. In this blog series, we take a look at the similarities and differences of many employee assessment...

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Innovation + Acceleration = Value Creation

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Adrian Jobson, director of Acculture, for just over three years. With a Master of Business, Organisational Change and Consulting, Adrian is a business owner, somatic coach and innovator with an intense curiosity about creating...

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Thinking Agility – Developing your Mental Muscles

Agile thinkers have the ability to consciously shift their thinking style. According to the Whole Brain® Modelframework, agile thinkers are able to switch between the four different thinking preferences and can leverage each style as required. But being an agile...

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How to protect your high performers from burnout

Stress is a normal part of every-day life – a tight deadline, an important interview, a high-stakes project. When the pressure is on, a little bit of stress can help workers perform at their best, motivating them to meet challenges head-on. But too much stress...

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