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| The Thinking Styles profile is used in all areas where skill
in communication and the need to understand how other people
think and learn are critical to success. It is a stepping stone
to understanding and learning how to use language effectively
to influence and encourage your staff, your students or your
colleagues. Learning another person's "language" and
using it will make motivating and managing him or her rewarding
and enjoyable. |
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| Thinking Styles is used: |
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To develop more creative and dynamic teams |
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In Customer Relationship Management programmes |
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To gently influence others |
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| Thinking Styles plays a vital role in understanding and developing
personal cognitive awareness, helping you to identify which
thinking style to use to achieve your objectives and how to
develop flexibility across the styles. The Thinking Styles consultancy
service identifies and helps individuals and teams develop
their cognitive skills and behavioural flexibility. |
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Team Dynamics
and Team Working
By profiling each member, you will be able to identify and understand
the cognitive dynamics within your team. This will:
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Help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of
the individual team members and of the whole team |
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Improve relationships through understanding colleagues'
thinking styles |
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Enable tasks to be divided and allocated to those people
who are best suited to do them |
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Energise your team |
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Encourage respect for yourself and for others |
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Two Way Profiling
By mapping two peoples' thinking styles against each other,
we can help you to:
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Identify overlaps and potential conflicts |
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Gain a more complete understanding of someone else's
styles directly compared to your own |
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Resolve difficult relationships |
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Identify gaps in thinking style flexibility and potential
weaknesses within your profiles |
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| In smaller companies, getting the right relationship between
the key senior managers is vital to the company's success. One
of our case studies gives an example of the benefits of two-way
mapping in a small consultancy. If you would like to read more
- click here. |
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Customer Relationship
Management
Our Associates have successfully used Thinking Styles in developing
strategies for enhancing relationships with their customers.
Teams have found using the Thinking Styles profile helps to:
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Enhance their ability to gain and maintain rapport with
customers |
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Be able to respond flexibly to customers in ways which
fit their styles |
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Probe the underlying needs of customers and explore
ways of addressing these needs |
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Learn to recognise easily the thinking styles of their
customers through their language and behaviour |
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| One of our case studies shows how this helped staff in BP
Amoco. If you would like to read more - click
here. |
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Sales and Negotiation
Techniques
Understanding their own Thinking Styles profile and language
preferences has helped sales staff identify the potential buying
strategies of their clients. You can:
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Identify the critical styles of thinking in your clients'
buying process |
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Learn to listen to and observe your customers' thinking
preferences |
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Enhance your thinking style flexibility to match your
clients' patterns |
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Speak their language: develop and maintain effective
client rapport |
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Developing
Advanced Training Skills
Training others so that they are able to learn quickly and easily,
and moreover, retain and recall what they have learned, requires
a high degree of skill and understanding. Using your own Thinking
Styles profile we can help you to:
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Develop your skills as a trainer to a significantly
higher level of competence |
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Develop your understanding of how people think and therefore
how they learn |
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Understand how people prefer to be 'taught' |
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Make your training messages more memorable |
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| We hold regular two-day Workshops for skilled trainers, to
enhance their training skills. For more details - click
here. |
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Coaching
Thinking Styles has proved itself to be highly effective in
executive coaching, and is used regularly with senior managers
in the City. We work with you on a one-to-one basis, using your
Thinking Styles profile to:
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Help you to focus and think through the strengths and
potential weaknesses of your profile and the implications
for your preferred areas of work |
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Give you support as you develop your cognitive flexibility |
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Help you make connections and develop personal insights
to help your career progress |
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| If you would like to know more about our personal coaching
please click
here to contact us. |
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Presentation
Techniques
How often have you attended a presentation that didn't work
for you? It could be that the presenter did not appreciate how
his or her own thinking style preferences would be reflected
in their presentation style.
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Develop flexibility in your own presentation style |
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Develop rapport with your audience |
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Understand those techniques which make the "best"
presenters successful |
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Learn to apply those techniques to your own presentations |
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| We hold regular one day Workshops on developing your presentation
skills using Thinking Styles. Workshop details - click
here. |
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Time Management
Why don't traditional time management courses always work? Could
it be that they are trying to teach "Left Brain" methods
to "Right Brained" preferenced people?
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Learn both left and right brain techniques for managing
your time |
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Learn to be both 'creative' and 'logical' |
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Learn which technique to apply for every time management
problem |
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Develop more confidence in your time management skills |
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| If you would like to know more about our coaching in Time
Management skills using Thinking Styles, contact
us. |
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Creating the
Right Environment for Thinking
How can you support the development of rapid and effective flexibility
for different thinking styles? You can enhance your flexibility
for the most appropriate kind of thinking when you need to by
creating the right environments for your thinking. For example:
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Closed spaces can close down thinking, so give yourself
some space |
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To think strategically work in a room with a view to
ensure that you get some 'perspective' |
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To make mental connections and think more 'creatively',
move around or take a walk |
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To think logically and sequentially surround yourself
with linear objects |
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| We can review your working and training environments to identify
how they are affecting your thinking and learning and offer
strategies for maximising their effectiveness. If you would
like to know more - click
here. |
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