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Unlock Your Potential with
the
NBI™ Assessment

What is The Neethling Brain Instrument™ (NBI)?

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The Neethling Brain Instruments™ (NBI) is a suite of neuroscience-based assessments that provide insights into thinking preferences. Understanding your thinking preferences, as well as the thinking preferences of others, can have profound implications for personal effectiveness in a number of areas. These areas may include interpersonal communication, leadership, management, team dynamics, creativity, presentations, training workshop design, and more.

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How Will You Benefit from the NBI™ Workshop?​

  • Gain insight into your thinking preferences and gain an understanding of others'

  • More effective communication

  • Insight into your team's diversity

  • Better cooperation and collaboration

  • Increased flexible/whole-brain thinking

  • Boost your presentation, influencing, and persuasion skills

  • Optimal team effectiveness and management

Develop & leverage your
social intelligence for
greater team effectiveness

Mentally diverse heterogeneous groups produce more creative, effective solutions than do similar-thinking homogeneous groups.

And, if we're not aware of the various thinking styles, our own preference, and the preferences of others, those diverse heterogeneous groups are often much harder to manage.

The NBI™, developed by Dr. Kobus Neethling—a leading expert in the field of creative thinking—reveals 4 categories of thinking preferences that generate insights for fostering greater individual as well as team effectiveness. The NBI® is based on insights from the fields of neuroscience, creativity, and psychology and its framework provides insight into left hemisphere (local processing), right hemisphere (global processing), cognitive (high road) as well as affective (low road) types of thinking. Help your team members understand their individual cognitive and emotional thinking preferences as well as the group’s overall pattern using the NBI™ Thinking Preference Assessment.

Unlock the potential of your team with "whole-brain" thinking. By working with me in either a 1:1 or team engagement, we will assess your thinking style(s) with the Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI), understand the preferences of others, and how to develop flexible, whole-brain thinking to foster greater effectiveness in communication, team building, collaboration, decision-making, leadership, and more!

You will get better results by surrounding yourself with people who think differently than you do, but it’s also going to require more effort on your part.

This is where you start!

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Key Insights

The NBI® can lead to increased performance in:

✔ Self-awareness

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✔ Creativity

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✔ Leadership

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✔ Social-Emotional Intelligence

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✔ Communication

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✔ Team Performance

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✔ Presentations

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✔ Conflict Resolution

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✔ Influence and Persuasion

NBI™ Applications

The NBI™ can be administered individually (to a team leader and team members) and collectively at the team level. A team report is generated by aggregating results from each team member. The team will be able to compare individual profiles alongside the team profile and team leader profiles.

 

What you will receive when purchasing NBI™ Assessments:

  • Access to the online assessment which takes  approximately 15 minutes to complete

  • An individual profile as a 7-page PDF report consisting of the 4-Quadrant and 8 Dimension results as well as pages of reading material customized to your results

  • A 10-page action planning guide for capitalizing on strengths and opportunities for improvement is provided with each individual profile

  • Each Team profile consists of a 5-page PDF report consisting of the individual profiles aggregated to the team level.

 

Integrating the NBI™ with Coaching & Team Building

Integrate the NBI™ assessment into a 1-on-1 coaching session and/or as part of a Team Building Program.

  • Coaching: the NBI can be used as the foundation of a three or six-month coaching package where the NBI framework is used to increase the individual's self-awareness, interpersonal effectiveness, and other leadership development areas of focus.
     

  • Team Building: Use the NBI™ as the foundation for a half-day, 1-day, or 2-day team building workshop. The Workshop focuses on helping participants identify This workshop begins with an overview of the NBI™ framework as a group, then participants examine the most impactful pages of their personal results individually. Participants move on to expand their newfound understanding through a series of curated exercises designed to challenge their thinking preferences as leaders.

    Suitable for clients at every level, this workshop has an immediate, visceral impact on self-awareness and team effectiveness.

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Suite of NBI™ Assessments
There are a number of NBI™ assessments including:
✔ General Adult Assessment – a measure of your thinking preferences.
✔ Skills Assessment – a measure of your skills at doing certain tasks.
✔ Leadership Assessment – a measure of how you prefer to lead.
✔ Creativity Assessment – a measure of your way of being creative.
✔ Learning Assessment – a measure of your learning style.
✔ Job Assessment – a measure of jobs that might be suitable for you.

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