 Whole Brain Thinking with Neethling Brain Instruments™
What is Whole Brain Thinking?
Everything we do starts with our brain – the way you think, react to others, make decisions, communicate, choose careers, manage people, and bring up your family – it depends on how you think ! And we all have preferred ways of thinking. Some people focus on facts, others look for relationships. Some like details, others prefer the bigger picture.
Whilst our personal ‘thinking preferences’ can sometimes help us in certain situations, they can also inhibit our ability to function fully. To improve our effectiveness - both personally and organisationally – we really need to fully understand our thinking preferences.
To do this, we need to understand our brain profile – and to achieve that we need to use a properly-validated and well-researched measuring instrument. We have chosen the suite of Neethling Brain Instruments™ (NBI™) (see all instruments below) as our preferred source of reliable information on thinking preferences and the concepts of whole brain thinking. If you want to see sample reports click on any of the following (a seperate window will open to read the documents): Adult NBI™, Senior Student NBI™, Young Child Indicator.
Background:
Hippocrates, who examined the brain during autopsies he performed, concluded "The brain of man is double". It was in 400 BC that he made the connection that the loss of speech was connected with damage to the left side of the brain. In 1864 a French surgeon named Paul Broca came to the same conclusion after observing that patients with aphasia (loss of speech) had damage to the left-brain.
In the 1960's Philip Vogel and Joseph Bogen performed their breakthrough split-brain surgery on three epileptic patients. Roger Sperry (who received a Nobel Prize for this work in 1981) with his colleagues Bogen, Vogel and Gazzaniga tested these patients and discovered that the two hemispheres control vastly different aspects of thought and action. They found the left (controlling the right side of the body) is dominant for language and speech and for analytical and logical thought, while the right (controlling the left side of the body) excels at visualising, holistic and unstructured tasks.
This breakthrough was followed by brain dominance research by Ned Herrmann, Jaquelyn Wonder, Priscilla Donovan, Berverly Moore and others. The NBI™ was developed after extensive international research since 1980 on left/right brain functions. Kobus Neethling under the research guidance of Prof Paul Torrance of the University of Georgia first developed the NBI™ for adults before applying similar methodologies (as explained in research documents) to develop a number of other whole brain instruments. More than 200 000 adults and children from a number of countries have been profiled by means of the NBI™. The results of research on the NBI™ have been very significant and ongoing research at a number of universities and institutes remains an essential part of whole brain science.
What benefits could an Organization expect from these profiles?
It is possible for each of us to make quantum leaps with regard to performance, achievement breakthroughs, productivity and happiness, if we understand and utilise this magical possession of ours, the Brain, in its entirety. We have the ability to stay at the cutting edge of "Clever" - provided we make the whole-brain leaps required of us at a particular moment, with agility - both personally and professionally.
Participants will better understand their own functioning, and that of their team members. They will gain valuable insight into the benefits of Whole-Brain Intelligence. They will be equipped with new knowledge with which to transform their life.
These instruments become part of the culture of the organisation and give Management a battery of tools to lead and coach dynamically. You never have to guess again about the level of creativity or negativity, or the effect of change on employees. The essence of conflicts or problems can immediately be identified and addressed. |
