My HBDI profile & what it says about me.
By oldschool 19 Comments
As part of my employment I undertook a HBDI analysis. If you are not familiar with it, here is some reading - Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - I would be interested to discuss what others who have done this test think about it and in particular, what they think about their own rating.
It is always interesting doing these types of tests as it can give you some insight into the type of person you are, in this case, from a perspective of your thinking style. I will just show a couple of images and tell you what I think about them.
As you can see, I am very strong in my artistic thinking style with a heavy emphasis on maths. That is no surprise for me at all. My scores in the other 2 quadrants are still quite high, which apparently shows that I can comfortably think in any area. I suppose that makes me fairly balanced. The fact that under stress I don't change is interesting as my most of my colleagues varied a lot, with quite a few reverting to a less dominant quadrant as their default setting.
This is the general descriptor for my results:
The really interesting part is how I fit in with my peers. The image below is a plot of where we all sit. You can see that the kind of follows in a line and although the gap between the yellow and the green extremes in that line is quite wide, there are still people not too far apart from each other. Then there is the guy way out on his own at the top. That guy is me. Story of my life really ^-^ I recall at a presentation of my 10 year service, a manager gave a little story of me to the large room of staff. He said that everyone in the room pretty much goes in a straight line to the destination, being the result we are after, then there was me, who took a rather unusual destination unlike anyone else, but still arrived at the destination. I didn't take that as an insult as it is fairly accurate. I have come to realise that my brain processes information a little different to the norm.
How this relates to life isn't very profound though and the value of these tests are questionable. It is supposed to help you understand how others think and how you would adapt or alter your thinking to the listener so they will relate better. I think most of us do this as a matter of course and perhaps subconsciously. Now it is back to you - anyone done one of these tests or have a view on them?