3-The Herrmann Thinking Styles Model PDF

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The Hermann Styles Model

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Outcomes

• Understand different types of thinking


• Overcome communication barriers
• Make better group communication
• Assign tasks accordingly
• Understand how thinking types influence problem solving
approach

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Mind set of horoscopes

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Are you left-brain or right-brain thinking?

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Four-quadrant model of thinking - HBDI

Cerebral

Financial Rational Change-oriented Imaginative


Factual Mathematical Strategic Conceptual
Academic Authoritarian Artistic Spatial
Analytical Quantitative Visual
Critical Logical Playful Simultaneous
Realistic Technical Holistic Risk- Big-picture
taking Context
Left Right
Tactical Procedural Emotional Expressive
Organized Sequential Symbolic Reaching out
Dominant Reliable Teaching Supportive
Conservative Detailed Sensitive Spiritual
Risk-avoiding Intuitive Interpersonal
Administrative Musical
Scheduled

Limbic
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Yet…

Only 5% have a single strong dominance


58% double dominance
34% triple dominance
3% equal dominances

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Whole brain thinking

Performance improves 30-100%


Accept and praise other types of thinking  reduce conflicts
 Dysfunctional teams work best.

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Typical mistakes to be avoided by…

Engineers and Scientists

1. Automatically discounting emotional arguments


2. Ignoring people who have unorthodox ideas

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Make groups of 4

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Barriers to effective communication

See reference 3.1

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Activity

Analyze your team’s strengths and weaknesses.

1. Which thinking preferences make it easy to communicate


within the team?
2. Which areas will need special attention when doing your
team project?
3. How to increase the mental diversity of your team.

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Herrmann model and entrepreneurship

Types of entrepreneurs

ALLOCATING CATALYTIC
REFINING
ADAPTIVE INVENTIVE

Doing things better Doing things the same way Doing things differently

Michael Kirton’s model of adaption-innovation theory

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Creativity practice

1. Alternative uses
2. Incomplete figures
3. Relate unrelated objects
4. Word play

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