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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Aligning Your Team During Times of Change and Uncertainty

Remote environments can be challenging to navigate under normal circumstances. Add in a global environment of stress and uncertainty, and those relationships and engagements can be even more difficult to manage. But they don’t have to be. Tapping into your team’s...

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A Whole Brain® approach to workplace wellbeing

Workplace wellbeing. It’s a term you hear a lot these days. Gone is the cut-throat corporate culture of the eighties and early nineties, where oppressive work environments made you feel like just another cog in the machine. Today’s leaders have recognised that...

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Comparing Employee Assessments: MBTI and HBDI

Comparing Employee Assessments: The HBDI® and the MBTI®

In this ongoing blog series, we take a look at the similarities and differences of many employee assessment instruments and how you might use them – individually and together – to achieve your business and talent development needs. For this post, we discuss the...

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