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Thinking Accelerator receives Major Award

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October 8, 2009. Herrmann International’s new program, The Thinking Accelerator™ featuring HBDIinteractive™, was awarded the silver Excellence in Content Award from Chief Learning Officer magazine. The magazine announced its Learning in Practice awards last week at the Fall 2009 Chief Learning Officer Magazine Symposium.

“The Learning In Practice awards were established to recognize transformational and visionary leaders in enterprise education,” said Norm Kamikow, president and editor in chief of Chief Learning Officer magazine. “A record number of top learning executives and solution providers were nominated by their peers this year. The winners are the industry leaders who truly champion innovation and transform it into learning and value for their organizations.”

According to Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International, this award highlights a growing need among organizations to deliver high-quality learning and skills to an increasingly global, dispersed and virtual workforce.

“Learning leaders face a tough challenge today,” says Herrmann-Nehdi. “Budgets are tight and very little time is available for training, but at the same time, there’s a greater need for people to take on new responsibilities, stretch their thinking and work more effectively with diverse team members. This award recognizes that you need both innovative content and new delivery mechanisms to make that happen.”

Herrmann International partnered with IBM to develop the award-winning product, an online simulation and blended learning program that helps people uncover their thinking preferences and apply Whole Brain® Thinking to improve leadership, teamwork, communication, problem solving and creativity. By incorporating the learner’s personalized Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® (HBDI®) assessment profile into the interactive simulation, the program gives each participant an individualized online learning experience.

The Learning In Practice Awards were announced at a special awards ceremony during the Symposium. All of the award winners will be featured in a special supplement in the December issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine. More information about the Learning In Practice Awards is available here.

The Thinking Accelerator has arrived

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Herrmann International has announced the release of the Thinking Accelerator™ featuring HBDIinteractive™, a blended learning solution combining an individual's HBDI Assessment with several interactive learning modules that greatly enhance and exceed the opportunities of a normal  training classroom setting. The interactive simulation gives participants insight into their own thinking styles and those of others, allowing them to stretch their capabilities whether working alone or in team settings.

The Thinking Accelerator was developed in partnership with IBM and includes activity oriented simulations that are applied and reinforced in a series of modules. The Accelerator includes the HBDI Assessment, a 120 question thinking style quantitative assessment,  but goes well beyond the usual print explanation format and debriefing.

“We developed this solution to help clients reach global, dispersed populations faster and more cost-effectively,” says Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, CEO of Herrmann International, “and also help them get the advantage that comes from embedding Whole Brain® Thinking into all aspects of the business. By combining IBM’s expertise in developing innovative technology solutions with our methods of harnessing the power of thinking styles for real-world application, we realized we could create a blended solution that would meet or even surpass what could be achieved in the classroom alone.”

After taking the assessment, participants enter the simulation world of HBDIinteractive™. They meet other participants within the simulation, typical of those in their own work setting with different understandings and priorities and get a chance to join their new virtual colleagues in learning new skills and taking action. They also get to apply what they are learning to their own real life situations and record their responses automatically as they go.

As a certfied asssessor and trainer, Dynamic Thinking is pleased to offer both HBDI Assessments and training incorporating The Thinking Accelerator.

You can download a copy of the Accelerator Press Release here

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About Herrmann International

For over 25 years, Herrmann International has helped clients harness the brainpower of the entire organization to get better results through better thinking. The company’s Whole Brain® Advantage solutions, which encompass classroom and online training programs, and decades of research into the brain and thinking, are rooted in the highly validated Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® (HBDI®) assessment tool. Nine out of 10 of the Fortune 100 are using Herrmann’s Whole Brain® Thinking approach in leadership development, employee training and strategic applications to achieve significant results such as increased revenue, customers and profits; reduced attrition rates; more productive teams; and improved creativity and innovation.

New Ordering System Provides Benefits

A new secure ordering system is now in place to offer customers immediate and significant benefits. With highly enhanced security, you can now order VisiMap, See What You Think! How to Work Better and Faster with VisiMap using our new secure order site in partnership with Digital River, one of the worlds most respected providers of secure ordering services. Simply follow the links from any of the product pages for the above products and you will link immediately with the secure order site. It takes all the credit card services previously offered plus additional means. It provides immediate translation into a number of common currencies.  And best of all it allows you to download the software and e-book immediately at the time of purchase.

The change in cooperation with CoCo Systems, the publisher of VisiMap is part of our continuing effort to serve you better and more effectively. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.