How to Create a Professional Development Plan for 2026 [+ Free PDP Template]

Every leader aspires to have a team of employees committed to enhancing their on-the-job skills, achieving career growth, and ultimately succeeding both personally and professionally. But how can this multifaceted aspiration be realised effectively? The answer...

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...

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...

Building trust at work, why it matters and how Whole Brain® Thinking helps

In any workplace, trust is not just a soft skill, it’s a strategic asset. Teams built on trust communicate more clearly, collaborate more effectively, take smarter risks, and innovate faster. When trust breaks down, performance suffers, engagement declines, and...

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How to build Psychological Safety within Your Team

How to build Psychological Safety within Your Team

The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety. But what exactly is it? According to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, who coined the term: “Psychological safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for...

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Face-to-face workshops are back. Or are they?

I got so excited when I was asked to run a face-to-face workshop. I hadn't run one since 2019, before the pandemic changed our lives. For the last 16 months it had been all virtual and Zoom. At last, I had the opportunity to go back to what I knew best. Face-to-face...

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Whole Brain® Thinking in a Digital World

This guest post is a contribution from Herrmann International Asia partner, Prasad Deshpande, CEO of Empowered Learning LLP. “Preserving the status quo is not a business strategy.” Shantanu Narayen - CEO Adobe. Digital Masters Disruption caused by technology has been...

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Creativity, Learning and the Specialised Brain

This article is adapted from Ned Herrmann’s original paper: Creativity, Learning and the Specialised Brain In the Context of Education for Gifted and Talented Children* I would like to acquaint you with my specialised language, which is the new language of brain...

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Gender Diversity

Gender equity, diversity and thinking preferences

Simply hiring more women doesn’t solve the issue of gender equity in the workplace. Diversity without inclusion leads to burnout, turnover, a lack of parity and other challenges like those we’re seeing at an even more intensified level as a result of the pandemic....

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Our Top 10 Resources for 2021

Our Top 10 Resources for 2021

2020 was a year none of us will ever forget, and that’s not just because of the coronavirus pandemic. From the Australian Black Summer bushires, to the Beirut explosion, to the global Black Lives Matter movement and the most contentious US election in history... it...

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How to thrive in a COVID-normal landscape

As tough as the past 12 months have been for many of us across the globe, we can take some solace in the fact that there will be better days ahead. 2020 will long remind us of devastating job losses and business closures. Moving forward, it should be no surprise that...

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