When teams struggle to communicate, it influences the quality of collaboration. It can create anxiety in the team, which becomes a barrier to connection and team learning, sapping the team’s energy and impacting performance. Thriving teams are fueled by human energy and learning, not performance. High performance is an outcome that results from solid team bonds, connections, and team learning.
A critical task in any organization is processing and sharing information to gain insights, learn, adapt, and innovate to create and maintain a competitive advantage in their respective field or industry. Everyone, not just the team leader, has a perspective to share, and when done in a team learning environment, those perspectives can lead to valuable insights and ideas.
When working with teams to improve dynamics, we use the Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI) to improve communication, collaboration, and connection, which influences a team’s ability to learn. The assessment and team activities we do in conjunction identify underlying causes creating the barriers the team is facing and surface the dysfunctional patterns that are holding the team back.
The NBI measures an individual team member’s unique thinking preferences or cognitive style. It influences how people lead, communicate, negotiate, innovate, and make individual, team, and organizational decisions.
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