How it Works

Understanding your thinking preferences can give you new insights into yourself and new perspective on those you interact with every day. 

Skills you will learn

 

The NBI® gives an indication of how you can:

  • Communicate effectively
  • Act towards other people or in certain situations
  • Do business with your customers
  • Learn your sales team’s thinking behaviour
  • Teach them your strategy
  • Problem Solving
  • Decision making

What you’ll be able to offer

 

The NBI® enables you to:

  • Develop effective teams
  • Resolve conflicts in your presonal and professional life
  • Improve the level of creativity and leadership in your business
  • Select the best-suited employees for new positions
  • Retain valuable employees

With the four quadrants as the basis, we are proud to introduce the 8 Dimensions Instrument which identifies two dimensions within each of the four quadrants. The 8 Dimensions are a revolutionary aspect of the NBI® as they provide greater insight into the elements within each of the four quadrants. This allows for a more thorough intepretation of an individual’s thinking preferences.

Instruments which include the 8 Dimensions are NBI® General Adult, NBI® Adult A, NBI® Teacher/Trainer, NBI® Senior Student and then more recently the NBI®Job, NBI® Desired Job and NBI® Leadership.

NBI General Adult: The NBI® General Adult instrument offers insight into the way you prefer to think, and increases your awareness of and sensitivity to the thinking preferences of others.

NBI Teacher/Trainer: The NBI Teacher/Trainer instrument offers insight into the way you as teacher prefer to think. The questions are the same as for the Adult instrument, but this instrument includes an extra static page with information on how the different quadrants influence your teaching style.

NBI Skills: The NBI® Skills instrument identifies an individual’s personal skills. You may have acquired skills in a particular area that are not really indicative of your brain preferences.

Alternatively, you may have a very strong preference in one area, but have never had the opportunity to develop the necessary skills in that area.

NBI Personal Negativity: The NBI® Personal Negativity instrument will give you greater insight into the origin of your negative thinking. It identifies the processes most likely to cause your negativity and to block your happiness and success. Once you (and the organisation) have identified the essence of the negativity the right solutions become very possible.

NBI Jobs: The NBI® Job instrument is a descriptive, non-judgmental assessment that identifies the skills needed in every quadrant in order to succeed at a particular job. The Job profile report focuses on the specific quadrant scores, and makes recommendations based on these scores.

This instrument can be used to design the job profiles of every existing and future jobs in the company – and to gain an understanding of the type of people who should fill those jobs.

The following are 15-question instruments and should always be used in conjunction with one of the thinking profiles.

NBI Leadership Style: The NBI® Leadership Style instrument provides insight into your leadership style and issues that are important to you (but may not be to your staff or colleagues), as well as identifying where there may be gaps in your leadership approaches.

NBI Creativity Style: The NBI® Creativity Style instrument provides insight into the way you approach creativity and where your creative strengths lie. The instrument identifies the type of creativity you prefer and apply.

NBI Parenting Style: The NBI® Parenting Style instrument provides insight into your parenting style and issues that are important to you (but may not be to your child or partner), as well as identifying where there could be room for improvement.

NBI Learning Style: The NBI® Learning Style instrument provides insight into your learning style and issues that are important to you when studying, as well as identifying where you may have to focus your efforts.

NBI Relationship Style: The NBI® Relationship Style instrument provides insight into your relationship style and issues that are important to you (but may not be to your partner), as well as identifying behaviour that could improve your relationship.

NBI Learning Style: The NBI® Learning Style instrument provides insight into your learning style and issues that are important to you when studying, as well as identifying where you may have to focus your efforts.

NBI Relationship Style: The NBI® Relationship Style instrument provides insight into your relationship style and issues that are important to you (but may not be to your partner), as well as identifying behaviour that could improve your relationship.

NBI Eating Habits: The NBI® Eating Habits instrument provides insight into your weight-loss style and approaches. It highlights issues that are important to you, as well as identifying where there could be room for improvement.

NBI Innovator: The NBI® Innovator Role instrument identifies the skills needed to fulfil a specific innovation role well. The Innovator Role Profile report focuses on the specific quadrant scores and makes recommendations based on these scores. This instrument can therefore be used to design a profile for a specific innovation role.

NBI Business Analyst: The NBI® Business Analyst assessment identifies the thinking preferences of the Business Analyst. It gives insight into the way the Business Analyst prefers to think during projects and makes him/her more aware and sensitive to the thinking styles of fellow role players.

Understanding the thinking associated with the four quadrants of the brain will assist the Business Analyst in making better decisions during key moments, will lead to a better understanding and an overall picture of the project. Making better choices will lead to an improved and more fulfilled experience.

NBI Wealth Instrument: The premise of the NBI® Wealth Instrument is to determine the thinking profile of an individual when he or she has to make investment decisions. It further indicates the type of financial advisor he/she would prefer.

NBI Desired Job: The NBI® Desired Job Instrument indicates the kind of JOB the candidate would like to have one day. The total score of every participant is 300 which means that there is no profile which is superior or better than the other. The different Job profiles do however show which skills, insights, thinking and attitudes are required to do well in particular jobs.

The profile report focuses on the specific quadrant scores and makes recommendations based on these scores. It is also recommended that candidates compare their personal profile (four and eight dimensions) to their desired job profile – the higher the correlation between these two profiles the better the possibility that the desired job is the correct choice.

NBI WB Feedback: The NBI® Feedback instrument will give you an insight into the type of manager that you prefer and how that impacts your followership style. It will highlight issues that are important to you (but maybe not to your employer or colleagues). This profile can have a dramatic impact on leadership in organisations as it deepens the understanding of the needs of employees and can lead to greater happiness at work.

NBI Business Relationship: Your Business Relationship Style profile will give you insight into your preferences in relationships in the workplace. Insights into your own and your colleagues’ unique preferences and how this impact on your work relationships will go a long way towards growing understanding and tolerance instead of frustration and criticism.

The password to successful relationships is tolerance with respect to differences, accepting the fact that we don’t all think the same way.